Automated Test Engineer, Manager (Remote US)

ICF•Reston, VA

12d•Remote

About The Position

ICF is seeking an Automated Test Engineer, Manager to support a Federal Government agency client. The role helps deliver reliable cloud applications, data services, and AI-enabled capabilities across an enterprise data lakehouse platform. The manager leads the Automated Test Team and builds, maintains, and improves automated tests and testing practices, integrating test suites into CI/CD pipelines and providing evidence that releases meet acceptance criteria. The role works with developers, business analysts, data engineers, product owners, users, and security specialists to expand testing across application workflows and supporting data services and to mature the Playwright testing suite. The position is remote within the United States and must support Eastern Time hours. The candidate must be a U.S. citizen, reside and be authorized to work in the U.S., have lived in the U.S. for three full years out of the last five, and be able to obtain and maintain a federal public trust or equivalent client-required background investigation. The role is not eligible for new H-1B visa sponsorship. The position is full-time, with a stated nationwide remote pay range of $108,476 to $184,409. Final pay depends on factors including experience, skills, certifications, competencies, location, education, and contract provisions.

Requirements

At least 5 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining automated test suites, preferably using Playwright and TypeScript, including reusable Page Object Model components, selector strategies for dynamic user interfaces, and failure diagnosis.
At least 5 years of demonstrated experience writing, debugging, and reviewing test automation code in TypeScript or JavaScript.
Experience writing Gherkin feature files and reusable step definitions with Cucumber or a comparable BDD framework.
Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and managing test code through version control and peer review.
Experience deriving functional, integration, and regression tests from requirements and acceptance criteria, documenting defects, and verifying fixes in an Agile delivery team.
Experience validating data-driven application behavior and using test evidence to identify quality issues and assess release readiness.
U.S. citizenship is required due to federal contract requirements.
Must be able to obtain and maintain a federal public trust or equivalent client-required background investigation.
Must reside in the U.S., be authorized to work in the U.S., and perform all work in the U.S.
Must have lived in the U.S. for three full years out of the last five years.

Nice To Haves

At least 2 years of experience acting as a Test Team Lead.
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 the Scaled Agile Framework.
Familiarity with Section 508 and WCAG accessibility testing, including the complementary roles of automated checks and manual evaluation.
Experience validating AI-enabled search, document processing, or natural language workflows against defined evaluation criteria.
Experience supporting federal modernization programs and producing test evidence for governance, acceptance, or compliance reviews.

Responsibilities

Manage and mentor the Automated Test Team, strengthen team coverage, and provide strategic direction to identify risks, gaps, and dependencies earlier.
Develop deep, end-to-end expertise in the testing tools and platform, and proactively investigate questions and issues.
Extend and maintain the Playwright/Cucumber framework using the Page Object Model and recommend improvements as the platform evolves.
Design, develop, and maintain reusable automated functional, integration, and regression tests for application workflows and supporting services, including APIs where applicable.
Design strategies for switching roles in pipelined automated test jobs and advise application and operations teams on supporting those patterns.
Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines, publish actionable results, troubleshoot unreliable tests, and support repeatable execution and release quality gates.
Plan and collaborate on implementing AI-assisted testing and/or code review.
Translate user stories and acceptance criteria into traceable test scenarios, including negative cases, role-based access, and cross-workstream dependencies; prioritize automation by risk and business impact.
Work with data engineers to automate validation of ingestion, transformations, and migration results, checking completeness, accuracy, and consistency across source and target systems.
Implement performance tests and collaborate with security specialists to integrate automated security checks, investigate findings, and verify fixes before release.
Maintain controlled test data and repeatable test setup; diagnose failures, document reproducible defects, and work with developers to resolve issues and verify corrections.
Support user acceptance testing and accessibility verification by preparing regression evidence and coordinating automated checks with required manual validation.
Report test coverage, execution results, defects, and release risks against agreed quality criteria; collaborate with developers on critical-service unit coverage and documented exceptions.
Track defect rates and trends to assess whether changes to testing posture produce measurable improvements.
Plan and execute testing across development, test, staging, and production-like environments, validating readiness, configuration consistency, integrations, and promotion through release gates.
Guide strategies for ensuring adequate fixture data and resources in lower environments.
Participate in functional testing with business analysts, product owners, and users to validate end-to-end workflows, confirm outcomes, document defects, and verify resolutions.
Participate in Agile planning, reviews, and retrospectives; maintain version-controlled test documentation and improve the automation approach as the platform evolves.
Communicate defects, test results, and release risks clearly to technical teams and business stakeholders.
Organize testing across concurrent workstreams and proactively identify dependencies and blockers.
Use sound judgment to prioritize automation and investigate underlying causes of test failures.
Collaborate across disciplines and take ownership of assigned testing activities through resolution.