Senior Testing Engineer - Automate DoD Web Apps (Remote)

Skylight; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Life and AD&D insurance

Professional development budget

Job summary

Skylight, a digital consultancy, seeks a Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Testing for a U.S. Air Force program. Remote across the United States, with travel to bases. You will own test strategy, move from manual to automated regression, and lead four test engineers, ensuring secure, scalable software delivery for government users.

Role emphasizes automation, CI/CD, and collaboration with government partners to embed security and testing best practices into the pipeline.

Qualifications

• Ability to write clean, working, and reusable code.
• Familiar with how to build secure, compliant software and defend against common vulnerabilities.
• Understand the different pieces of software systems and how to fit them together, while keeping performance, reliability, and availability in mind.
• Experience designing test strategy and building automated regression suites for web applications.
• Experience leading testers or a test effort.
• Experience working in a government or regulated environment with formal security authorization (ATO).
• Experience working on cross-functional teams (product, design, engineering, ops) in iterative delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design the test strategy for a portfolio of web applications, and decide pragmatically what to automate first.
• Build automated regression suites and integrate them into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Move the team from manual to automated regression testing, shrinking the time from code freeze to production.
• Lead a shared pool of four test engineers starting in February, and help them grow.
• Communicate release confidence clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Pair with and coach government testers and engineers so automated testing sticks after we leave.

Skills

Test automation

Programming

CI/CD

Security awareness

Team leadership

Communication

Tools

Selenium

Cucumber

GitLab CI

Job description

Skylight, a digital consultancy, seeks a Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Testing for a U.S. Air Force program. Remote across the United States, with travel to bases. You will own test strategy, move from manual to automated regression, and lead four test engineers, ensuring secure, scalable software delivery for government users.

Role emphasizes automation, CI/CD, and collaboration with government partners to embed security and testing best practices into the pipeline.