Automated Test Engineer, Manager

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Automated Test Engineering Manager leading Playwright-based testing for ICF’s federal cloud applications. Driving CI/CD quality gates, data validation, and release readiness.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage and mentor the Automated Test Team and provide strategic direction
  • Extend and maintain the Playwright/Cucumber framework using the Page Object Model
  • Design, develop, and maintain reusable automated functional, integration, and regression tests
  • Design strategies for switching roles in pipelined automated test jobs
  • Integrate automated suites into CI/CD pipelines and publish actionable results
  • Troubleshoot unreliable tests and support release quality gates
  • Plan and collaborate on AI-assisted testing and code review
  • Translate user stories and acceptance criteria into traceable test scenarios
  • Automate validation of data ingestion, transformations, and migration results
  • Implement performance tests and integrate automated security checks
  • Maintain controlled test data and repeatable test setup
  • Diagnose failures, document reproducible defects, and verify corrections
  • Support user acceptance testing and accessibility verification
  • Report test coverage, execution results, defects, and release risks
  • Track defect rates and trends
  • Execute testing across development, test, staging, and production-like environments
  • Guide fixture data and resource strategy in lower environments
  • Participate in functional testing with business analysts, product owners, and users
  • Participate in Agile planning, reviews, and retrospectives
  • Maintain version-controlled test documentation and improve the automation approach

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining automated test suites, preferably with Playwright and TypeScript
  • 5+ years of experience writing, debugging, and reviewing test automation code in TypeScript or JavaScript
  • Experience with Gherkin feature files and reusable step definitions using Cucumber or comparable BDD framework
  • Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience managing test code through version control and peer review
  • Experience deriving functional, integration, and regression tests from requirements and acceptance criteria
  • Experience documenting defects and verifying fixes within an Agile delivery team
  • Experience validating data-driven application behavior and using test evidence to assess release readiness
  • U.S. Citizenship required
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a federal public trust or equivalent background investigation
  • Must reside in the U.S. and be authorized to work in the U.S.; all work must be performed in the U.S.
  • Must have lived in the U.S. for three full years out of the last five years
  • 2+ years of experience acting as a Test Team Lead preferred
  • Experience establishing test architecture for a new or modernized application
  • Experience testing Azure applications or data workflows involving Databricks
  • Familiarity with Python or SQL for data validation
  • Experience with Jira, Confluence, and Scaled Agile Framework
  • Familiarity with Section 508 and WCAG accessibility testing
  • Experience validating AI-enabled search, document processing, or natural language workflows
  • Experience supporting federal modernization programs and producing test evidence for governance, acceptance, or compliance reviews
  • Must support EST hours

Benefits:

  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Reasonable accommodations throughout the application and employment process
  • Benefits information provided under the Transparency in Coverage Act