System Automation Engineer — Agile, TS/SCI

Kroll; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Coverage

Paid time off (PTO)

401(k) retirement plans

Life insurance

Job summary

Kroll is hiring for a System Automation Agile Developer to support the modernization of a legacy system with a microservices-based architecture. You will own test framework design, automated test execution, and quality delivery across the full software lifecycle in an embedded cross-functional Agile team.

The role requires hands-on experience with Playwright, Cucumber, and Cypress, plus proficiency in CI/CD integration, load testing, and chaos testing. Active TS/SCI with FSP is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related discipline; 3+ years of professional experience optional
• Hands-on experience establishing and maintaining test frameworks and automated test suites
• Working knowledge of Microservices design and architecture
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into them
• Proficiency with test automation frameworks and tooling (Playwright, Cucumber, and/or Cypress)
• Experience executing load and performance testing, chaos testing, functional testing, and end-to-end testing
• Experience working in an Agile delivery environment
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in a team-oriented software development environment

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain a test framework and automated test suite using Playwright, Cucumber, and Cypress
• Develop, maintain, and execute automated functional and end-to-end tests across microservices
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous quality gates
• Author maintainable, data-driven, and reusable test scripts aligned to program coding standards
• Execute load and performance testing across microservices and system interfaces using JMeter or similar tooling
• Conduct chaos testing to validate system resilience, failover, and recovery behaviors
• Perform functional and end-to-end testing to validate user workflows and integrations
• Identify, document, and triage defects; partner with developers on root-cause analysis and remediation
• Support modernization of a legacy operational system into a microservices-based architecture
• Validate microservice contracts, APIs, and integrations across the distributed system
• Test containerized workloads and deployments in Kubernetes and Docker environments
• Verify CI/CD pipeline behavior, deployment health, and post-deployment validation
• Participate in all Agile ceremonies and deliver test artifacts on sprint cadence
• Communicate and collaborate with engineers, product owners, and program stakeholders
• Contribute to continuous improvement of team test practices, tooling, and quality metrics

Skills

Test automation

CI/CD pipelines

Microservices

Playwright

Cucumber

Cypress

Agile

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

JMeter

Docker

Kubernetes

Swagger

JavaScript

Python

Ansible

Job description

Kroll is hiring for a System Automation Agile Developer to support the modernization of a legacy system with a microservices-based architecture. You will own test framework design, automated test execution, and quality delivery across the full software lifecycle in an embedded cross-functional Agile team.

The role requires hands-on experience with Playwright, Cucumber, and Cypress, plus proficiency in CI/CD integration, load testing, and chaos testing. Active TS/SCI with FSP is required.