Senior Test Architect - Remote, Civic Tech QA Leader

focus arquitetura e engenharia ltda; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Focus is seeking a Senior Test Software Engineer to lead quality engineering architecture and automation for civic tech infrastructure. You will architect scalable automated test suites and CI workflows across vendors and stakeholders, becoming the software quality technical authority.

Remote role for U.S.-based professionals. You will design data generators, collaborate with client leads, and apply Playwright, TypeScript, Python, and Terraform in a FedRAMP context to ensure robust testing

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience developing full-stack applications and tooling using TypeScript and Python.
• Practical experience writing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and leveraging infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
• Experience designing complex systems that interact with multiple external services, databases, and third-party APIs.
• Proven experience working on cross-functional agile teams, estimating complex engineering tasks, and directly communicating technical updates to client stakeholders.
• Strong diagnostic skills for troubleshooting complex, distributed multi-vendor application failures and microservices.
• Prior experience working on federal government digital service projects or civic tech programs.
• Familiarity with AWS GovCloud environments, FedRAMP compliance standards, and observability tooling.
• Experience implementing synthetic test data generators or complex mock data services for enterprise integrations.

Responsibilities

• Establish software quality standards, test architecture guidelines, and defect prevention strategies across delivery streams.
• Architect, build, and maintain scalable end-to-end (E2E) automated UI and API test suites using Playwright and TypeScript across multiple product verticals.
• Design and build automated data generation tools and synthetic applicant profile generators using Python and REST APIs to replace manual data setup processes.
• Author and review comprehensive technical specifications, test strategies, and quality risk assessments for upcoming feature initiatives.
• Construct, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to support quality gates and feature-driven promotion practices.
• Serve as a trusted technical liaison to client leads and external vendor teams, advocating for developer self-service, smooth release gatekeeping, and collaborative troubleshooting.
• Support cloud infrastructure updates using Terraform, embed automated security scanning, and navigate continuous compliance processes in a FedRAMP/Public Trust environment.

Skills

TypeScript

Python

CI/CD pipelines

Agile teams

Distributed systems

Troubleshooting

Client stakeholder communication

Tools

Playwright

Terraform

AWS GovCloud

Security scanning tools

Observability tooling

REST APIs

Job description

Focus is seeking a Senior Test Software Engineer to lead quality engineering architecture and automation for civic tech infrastructure. You will architect scalable automated test suites and CI workflows across vendors and stakeholders, becoming the software quality technical authority.

Remote role for U.S.-based professionals. You will design data generators, collaborate with client leads, and apply Playwright, TypeScript, Python, and Terraform in a FedRAMP context to ensure robust testing