Test Automation Engineer

The Phoenix Group; Washington, Baltimore (District of Columbia, MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Phoenix Group is seeking an experienced QA/Test Engineer to own end-to-end automation, building robust test coverage for core user and system workflows. You’ll drive quality across the sprint and collaborate with developers to strengthen test strategy.

You will stand up realistic test environments using Terraform, automate UI and API tests in TypeScript, and help ensure release readiness with clear documentation and risk signaling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of QA/test engineering with automation framework experience.
• Experience automating UI and API tests, preferably in TypeScript.
• DevOps skills: Terraform, containers, Kubernetes and GitHub Actions CI/CD.
• Familiar with AWS or similar cloud platform.
• Ability to leverage AI tools to accelerate development and testing.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain automated test coverage for key user and system workflows.
• Stand up realistic simulated testing environments using Terraform.
• Validate new code each sprint and document defects clearly.
• Contribute to release readiness decisions before deployments.
• Provide weekly updates on quality goals and risks.
• Partner with developers on test strategy and coverage improvements.

Skills

UI automation

API testing

End-to-end testing

DevOps collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

TypeScript

CI/CD

AWS

AI tools

Job description

This engineer will own test automation end to end, from writing the tests themselves to standing up the mock environments they execute against.

What You’ll Do

• Create and maintain automated test coverage for the application’s most important user and system workflows
• Stand up realistic, simulated environments for testing using Terraform
• Validate new code each sprint, uncovering defects and missing functionality and documenting them clearly
• Weigh in on release readiness decisions before each deployment
• Provide weekly status updates on quality goals and raise potential risks before they become problems
• Partner with developers on test strategy and identify areas where coverage is thin

What You Bring

• At least five years of experience in quality assurance or test engineering, with a track record of standing up an automation framework from the ground up
• Deep experience automating both UI and API tests, ideally in TypeScript (comparable languages considered)
• Practical DevOps skills, including Terraform for infrastructure as code, containerization, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines built in GitHub Actions
• Familiarity with AWS or a comparable cloud platform
• Comfort leveraging AI tools to speed up development and testing work