Test Automation Engineer

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Test Automation Engineer building UI, API, and integration testing frameworks for GDIT. Improving software quality for U.S. government, defense, and intelligence missions.

Responsibilities:

  • Define automation test strategy and plans for products, systems, components, and major modifications
  • Design, implement, and maintain UI, API, and integration test automation frameworks and suites
  • Create, document, execute, and analyze complex test scenarios, including edge cases and failure-mode coverage
  • Communicate test results to stakeholders
  • Participate in final system integration and validation activities
  • Identify functional, performance, and reliability issues
  • Establish and maintain quality control standards, reliability and regression programs, test data management, and traceability
  • Ensure testing complies with applicable security, accessibility, performance, and SDLC standards
  • Identify systemic issues in test coverage, tooling, environments, or processes and implement measurable improvements
  • Provide feedback and recommendations for product and design changes based on test outcomes and defect trends
  • Collaborate across engineering teams to improve testability, observability, and defect prevention
  • Coordinate with vendors or suppliers on component-level testing, tooling, and test data
  • Work independently on advanced technical projects
  • Provide technical leadership through mentoring, best practices, and contributions to shared frameworks and standards

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field from an accredited college/university
  • Alternatively, four additional years of relevant work experience in lieu of a relevant four-year degree
  • 3+ years of experience building automated tests
  • Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript and/or Java or C#
  • Hands-on expertise with React, Next.js, or Angular, including component and UI testing
  • Proficiency with Testing Library, UI automation, API testing, contract testing, and reliable test design
  • Experience testing backend services and microservices, including Spring Boot
  • Experience managing dependencies and builds using Maven
  • Experience with container-based integration testing, such as Testcontainers
  • Ability to design maintainable automation frameworks using clean code, modularity, version control, and CI/CD integration
  • Strong troubleshooting, defect isolation, root-cause analysis, and test-result interpretation skills
  • Ability to improve quality processes, define standards, and drive adoption across teams
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted development and testing using OpenCode, Claude Code, and Gemini Vertex AI
  • Must obtain and maintain a Public Trust
  • Must provide onsite fingerprinting at a designated facility
  • U.S. residency requirement: required recent residence in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) under the stated USPS security-clearance rules
  • U.S. citizenship is not required
  • No clearance currently possessed is required; no clearance must be obtained beyond the stated Public Trust

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Competitive pay
  • Paid time off
  • AI-powered career tool identifying career steps and learning opportunities
  • Internal mobility team focused on career goals
  • Full flex work weeks where possible
  • Vacation, sick, personal time, holiday, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave
  • Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year
  • Additional 10 paid holidays per year
  • Up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees
  • Medical plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts
  • Dental plan options
  • Vision plan options
  • Short- and long-term disability benefits
  • Life insurance
  • Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
  • Personal accident insurance
  • Critical illness insurance
  • Business travel and accident insurance
  • Global technology and professional services company operating across 50+ countries
  • Award-winning culture of innovation and military-friendly workplace