QA Tester, Automation Engineer
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Appian QA tester automating tests and validating migrations for Miami Technology Solutions, a federal technology-services provider. Supporting Appian modernization with SQL, CI/CD, and defect management.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute functional, regression, integration, system, and end-to-end tests for Appian applications
- Validate Appian interfaces, records, process models, business rules, reports, integrations, plugins, and custom components
- Translate requirements and acceptance criteria into detailed test cases and traceable test evidence
- Create and manage test data across development, testing, staging, migration, and production-support environments
- Document, prioritize, and track defects through resolution and retesting
- Support formal testing, user acceptance testing, and release-readiness decisions
- Design, develop, execute, and maintain automated regression and integration test suites
- Analyze failed automated tests and distinguish application defects from test-script, data, pipeline, and environmental issues
- Stabilize unreliable tests and improve automated execution consistency and maintainability
- Integrate automated testing into Jenkins or comparable CI/CD pipelines
- Maintain automation code through Git or GitHub source-control workflows
- Support containerized test execution using Docker or comparable technologies
- Connect automated test results with Jira, Xray, or comparable test-management tools
- Review source-to-target mappings, data-transformation requirements, interface specifications, and business rules
- Develop and execute SQL queries to validate source and target data
- Compare record counts, field values, relationships, statuses, dates, and calculated values before and after migration or integration processing
- Validate data completeness, accuracy, uniqueness, referential integrity, and compliance with business rules
- Support mock migrations, cutover activities, rollback testing, and post-migration validation
- Verify Appian reports, interfaces, records, and integrations with migrated and integrated data
- Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, release planning, quality reviews, and retrospectives
- Provide status updates on test execution, automation health, migration results, defects, dependencies, and risks
- Help define quality gates and exit criteria for application releases and migration events
- Produce test summaries, reconciliation reports, defect metrics, and release-readiness documentation
- Work with Appian developers, database and integration engineers, business analysts, and project stakeholders supporting federal application modernization
Requirements:
- Minimum two years of professional experience in software quality assurance, test automation, or test engineering
- Hands-on experience testing Appian applications or comparable low-code enterprise platforms
- Experience executing functional, regression, integration, system, and end-to-end testing
- Experience developing or maintaining automated testing frameworks
- Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases
- Experience testing system integrations, database conversions, data migrations, or data-intensive applications
- Ability to interpret source-to-target mappings, transformation rules, requirements, and acceptance criteria
- Experience managing defects and test execution through Jira, Xray, or comparable tools
- Familiarity with continuous integration pipelines and Git or GitHub workflows
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, written, and verbal communication skills
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Successful candidates must be able to pass a government background investigation and satisfy public trust requirements
- US Citizenship or US Green Card is required
- Preferred: four or more years of experience in software quality assurance, automated testing, or test engineering
- Preferred: Appian testing experience involving records, process models, interfaces, integrations, plugins, and custom components
- Preferred: experience with FitNesse for Appian or another Appian test-automation tool
- Preferred: experience with Ruby, JRuby, Java, Python, or a comparable automation language
- Preferred: experience creating automated SQL-based reconciliation or data-quality tests
- Preferred: experience supporting migration rehearsals, production cutovers, rollback testing, and post-deployment validation
- Preferred: experience with Jenkins, Docker, RubyMine, AWS-hosted environments, or similar technologies
- Preferred: familiarity with federal system testing, documentation, security, and release-management requirements
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Employer-paid life insurance
- Long- and short-term disability coverage
- Generous 401(k) match
- Paid time off and holidays



















