Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Guidehouse is hiring a QA Automation Engineer to validate application quality through manual and automated testing. The role develops and maintains test automation, integrates testing into CI/CD and DevSecOps workflows, and communicates release results, defects, and risks to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts using relevant testing frameworks to validate application functionality across multiple user roles and workflows
• Design and implement UI automation using tools such as Playwright, ensuring automated test coverage is reliable, maintainable, and aligned with release objectives
• Lead test automation initiatives, including the integration of automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps processes
• Conduct manual testing of individual features, stress testing the system in order to ensure high quality deployments
• Create and organize testing suites in TestRails or a similar tool
• Periodically run full manual test suite to perform regression testing
• Conduct peer reviews of test automation code to promote quality, consistency, and adherence to engineering best practices
• Communicate test execution results, defects, risks, and recommendations to stakeholders during each release cycle

Skills

• U.S. citizenship or Green Card status is required, along with the ability to obtain a public trust clearance
• Minimum of four (4) years of experience in quality assurance, software testing, or application development for enterprise systems
• At least two (2) years of experience providing quality assurance and testing support for AWS-based workloads
• Bachelor's degree or four (4) additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree
• Demonstrated experience performing manual and automated testing, including defect documentation, issue reproduction, regression testing, and validation
• Strong experience developing test automation using Playwright with JavaScript or TypeScript, along with API testing, performance testing, Swagger, and Postman
• Experience designing, maintaining, and integrating CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions with AWS services such as Systems Manager and PostgreSQL
• Proficiency testing applications and workloads built with AWS services and technologies, including Vue.js, Python, Django, and Amazon S3
• Ability to work effectively in a remote environment while collaborating with, mentoring, and supporting team members to resolve complex technical issues
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments, including planning, testing, and supporting iterative software releases
• Ability to test and validate workloads against AWS Well-Architected Framework principles and related quality standards
• Experience supporting or testing Python/Django-based web applications
• Experience conducting penetration, performance, or load testing for applications hosted in AWS cloud environments
• Experience configuring and validating application monitoring, alerting, and error tracking using Sentry or similar tools
• Knowledge of Section 508 accessibility testing standards, requirements, and validation practices

Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
• Employee Referral Program
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
• Care.com annual membership
• Employee Assistance Program
• Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
• Flexible benefits package
• Flexible work arrangement

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