Senior QA Automation Engineer — Remote, CI/CD

Clearwaters.IT; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plan

Retirement Plan

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Clearwaters.IT is seeking a Senior Test Automation Engineer to lead automation efforts and coordinate testing activities with developers and analysts. The role focuses on creating and maintaining manual and automated test scripts that meet VA documentation standards.

You will manage testing artifacts in GitHub and Jira, drive CI/CD and performance testing, and guide staff test events while ensuring high software quality across complex environments. Remote work is supported.

Qualifications

• Must have experience creating test plans and test scripts with developers and analysts.
• Extensive technical expertise in IT products, OS, hardware, networks, and environments.
• Experience writing or aiding test plans and procedures.
• Must manage the defect database under QA Manager guidance.
• Bachelor’s degree as specified; 10+ years in manual and automation testing.
• Eligibility limited to U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents; ability to obtain Security Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and collaborate with developers and functional analysts to create test plans and test scripts (Manual and Automated).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Ensure high quality and reliability of software.
• Lead CI, and performance testing events.
• Manage and track all testing artifacts in GitHub, Jira, and associated repositories.
• Lead and conduct testing per Master Test Plan specifications.
• Manage and assist staff test events with resources.
• Identify and document defects.
• Monitor and update defect and bug reports in Jira.
• Perform code reviews of scripts.
• Execute manual and automated test scripts.

Skills

Python

JavaScript

Selenium

JMeter

Playwright

Cypress

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub

Jira

SQL

REST API testing

SAFe/Agile

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electronics engineering, or related discipline

Tools

Selenium

JMeter

TestNG

Cypress

Playwright

Postman

RestAssured

SoapUI

HP ALM

GitHub repositories

Job description

Clearwaters.IT is seeking a Senior Test Automation Engineer to lead automation efforts and coordinate testing activities with developers and analysts. The role focuses on creating and maintaining manual and automated test scripts that meet VA documentation standards.

You will manage testing artifacts in GitHub and Jira, drive CI/CD and performance testing, and guide staff test events while ensuring high software quality across complex environments. Remote work is supported.