Senior QA Automation Engineer - Remote, Azure & CI/CD

your Jared; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care plan

401k retirement plan

Life insurance

Paid time off

Family leave

Disability coverage

Training & development

Job summary

Aretum, a mission‑driven technology orignization, is seeking a QA Automation Test Engineer to support an Agile team for a federal government client. The role focuses on planning, developing, executing, and maintaining automated and manual tests to ensure quality, performance, accessibility, and reliability across applications and APIs.

Candidate will handle CUI safeguarding requirements and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to meet DoD/DoC style standards while contributing to CI/CD

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in QA/testing
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience acceptable in lieu of degree
• 5+ years using automation tools to test systems and applications and write scripts
• 3+ years with automation testing tools; Playwright preferred
• Experience building automation strategies/frameworks from scratch
• Experience performing functional, regression, and end‑to‑end testing
• Strong testing for database and API testing
• Experience with Docker containers and testing containerized apps
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Collaborative across cross‑functional teams, strong communication skills

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, execute, and maintain manual and automated test cases for web apps, APIs, and integrated systems
• Create test strategies, plans, and approaches aligned with automation goals
• Provide clear feedback with detailed descriptions, acceptance criteria, and steps in tickets
• Build reusable automated test scripts and utilities to reduce repetitive testing
• Develop scalable test automation frameworks for consistency across teams
• Perform functional, regression, smoke, integration, end‑to‑end, and story validation testing
• Collaborate with product owners, analysts, developers, and testers on quality expectations
• Integrate automated testing into Azure DevOps CI/CD and provide rapid feedback on code quality
• Develop and execute load, performance, and scalability tests to validate stability
• Analyze results, identify defects, and propose improvements for release readiness

Skills

Automation testing

Playwright

API testing

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Test framework design

Agile/Scrum

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Playwright

Docker

Azure DevOps

Job description

Aretum, a mission‑driven technology orignization, is seeking a QA Automation Test Engineer to support an Agile team for a federal government client. The role focuses on planning, developing, executing, and maintaining automated and manual tests to ensure quality, performance, accessibility, and reliability across applications and APIs.

Candidate will handle CUI safeguarding requirements and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to meet DoD/DoC style standards while contributing to CI/CD