Senior QA Automation Engineer | Playwright & AWS CI/CD

Guidehouse; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Parental Leave

Group Life and Travel Assistance

Transit and Parking Benefits

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

Guidehouse seeks a QA automation engineer to develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts validating enterprise applications across user roles. You will design UI automation with Playwright and lead CI/CD integration within a DevSecOps framework.

You will collaborate remotely, mentor teammates, and contribute to Agile releases while ensuring AWS-based workloads and technologies (Vue.js, Python, Django, S3) meet quality standards.

Qualifications

• Four years of QA or software testing experience for enterprise systems.
• At least two years of QA/testing support for AWS workloads.
• Bachelor’s degree or four additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• Demonstrated experience performing manual and automated testing, including defect documentation, issue reproduction, regression testing, and validation.
• Strong experience developing test automation using Playwright with JavaScript or TypeScript, plus API testing with Swagger and Postman.
• Experience designing, maintaining, and integrating CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions with AWS services such as Systems Manager and PostgreSQL.
• Proficiency testing applications and workloads built with AWS services and technologies, including Vue.js, Python, Django, and Amazon S3.
• Ability to work effectively in a remote environment while collaborating with, mentoring, and supporting team members to resolve complex technical issues.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments, including planning, testing, and supporting iterative software releases.
• Ability to test workloads against AWS Well-Architected Framework principles and related quality standards.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship; due to government clearance requirements, candidates must be U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents.
• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD PUBLIC TRUST; candidates must obtain approved adjudication prior to onboarding; active PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts across multiple user roles and workflows.
• Design and implement UI automation using Playwright for reliable test coverage.
• Lead test automation initiatives including CI/CD, DevSecOps integration.
• Conduct peer reviews of test automation code to promote quality and consistency.
• Communicate test results, defects, risks, and recommendations to stakeholders during each release cycle.

Skills

Quality assurance

AWS testing

Automation testing

CI/CD integration

Agile delivery

Test planning

Mentoring

Remote collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Playwright

JavaScript/TypeScript

Swagger

Postman

GitHub Actions

AWS Systems Manager

PostgreSQL

Sentry

Job description

Guidehouse seeks a QA automation engineer to develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts validating enterprise applications across user roles. You will design UI automation with Playwright and lead CI/CD integration within a DevSecOps framework.

You will collaborate remotely, mentor teammates, and contribute to Agile releases while ensuring AWS-based workloads and technologies (Vue.js, Python, Django, S3) meet quality standards.