Automation Test Engineer

Sparibis•Washington, DC

13d•Remote

About The Position

Sparibis LLC is seeking an Automation Test Engineer to join their team. This is a 100% remote position requiring 7+ years of experience and a Bachelor's degree in an IT-related field. The role involves designing, developing, and executing system-level test procedures in an Agile environment, ensuring systems meet complex functional, performance, and latency requirements. The engineer will build, scale, and maintain a robust test automation framework using Playwright and Cucumber for web applications and APIs. Responsibilities include analyzing requirements, developing test plans and scripts, reviewing testing documentation, and creating databases of known defects. The position also involves participating in product design reviews, assisting with software test plans, and setting up/maintaining dedicated infrastructure servers and test environments. The engineer will work closely with developers, business analysts, and requirements personnel, utilizing Atlassian tool suites like JIRA and Zephyr. Applicants must be US citizens and able to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in IT related field.
7+ years professional test engineering experience.
Must be able to obtain and maintain up to a Secret security clearance.
United States Citizenship is required as part of the eligibility criteria to be able to obtain this type of security clearance.
Experience with developing software test plans, test cases, and test scripts
Automation Testing experience required.
Selenium, MS Playwright, Cucumber, Cypress, TestNG, JUnit or other automation testing frameworks/tools.
LoadRunner and other manual testing tools experience.
Proficient in designing and executing end-to-end automation frameworks using Playwright paired with Cucumber.
Demonstrate expertise with Java and JavaScript with Selenium WebDriver in a Data Driven and/or behavior driven Framework.
Experience with automation – functional and regressing testing procedures, and ability to review new requirements and UI flows while preparing new test case scenarios.
Experience designing, writing, testing and documenting efficient testing solutions to meet customer needs.
Experience with User Interface Acceptance Testing, backend testing, software testing.
Experience with API Testing using Postman (manual) and Rest-Assured (automation) or comparable tools.
Proven experience provisioning, configuring, and maintaining infrastructure servers (Linux) or cloud instances to serve as standalone test environments.
Strong understanding of networking, permissions, and server configurations (e.g., managing dependencies, setting up execution nodes, and environment variables) required to support test execution.
Knowledge of the principles, practices and procedures of quality assurance testing automation.
Experience with all phases of the SDLC as it applies to software testing activities.
Excellent analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
High energy; ability to manage time in a dynamic environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills required.
Should be a team-player, quick learner, proactive and have a positive attitude.

Nice To Haves

Active Secret security clearance preferred.
TypeScript experience.
Experience with User Acceptance Testing, Back-End, and End-to-End testing.
Experience in all or some of the following programming platform a plus: Linux and Bash scripting.
Java and JavaScript frameworks in HTML5/CSS3 context (AngularJS, jQuery, D3).
RESTful APIs/JSON.
SQL.
Experience working in DevOps setting (i.e. GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, JIRA, etc.) preferred.
Demonstrated experience with Continuous Integration, including one or more of the following: Jenkins, Maven, Jira, Git/GitHub/GitBash/Stash/Bitbucket.
Knowledge of other testing tools such as JMeter and LoadRunner a bonus.
Ability to assess software products for readiness and determine pass/fail criteria.
Ability to determine test approaches, develop test schedules, and identify risks associated with testing.
Ability to capture test data, analyze test results and clearly communicate (orally and written) findings and/or deficiencies.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and execute system level test procedures in an Agile environment ensuring the system meets the complex functional, performance and latency requirements.
Build, scale, and maintain a robust, maintainable test automation framework using Playwright and Cucumber to validate web applications and APIs.
Design, develop, and execute complex automated software test plans in order to identify and address user problems and causes.
Analyze requirements to generate artifacts table and test approach for automated test scripts development.
Review testing documentation, develop testing standards, define criteria for testing, analyze test results, and present results to developers and end users.
Develop and execute test scenarios, scripts, and procedures for unit, process, function, system integration and acceptance testing.
Evaluate the test basis and support the refinement of requirements to ensure testability, clarity and correctness.
Create or maintain databases of known test defects.
Conduct test design activities to identify and create test cases (positive and negative) traceable to system requirements.
Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project roadmap or delivery dates.
Participate in product design reviews, providing input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems.
Assist in the creation of software test plans to document the overall test strategy, test approach, test process, test schedule, pass/fail criteria, test environment architecture, test lab resources.
Take ownership of setting up, configuring, and maintaining dedicated infrastructure servers and test environments from scratch to support high-performance automation execution.
Deploy, manage, and configure automated test suites to run directly on internal staging servers or distributed grid nodes, ensuring stable, headless execution and reliable artifact/report collection.
Analyze risk identifiers and develop documentation addressing software defect diagnostics and proposed solutions.
Provide support for test readiness reviews, formal system verification of the requirements.
Work closely with software developers, engineers, business analysts, and requirements personnel to plan, coordinate and execute static analysis and dynamic testing of systems/software code to verify, validate acceptance and technical specifications.
Work with Atlassian tool suites including JIRA, Zephyr etc.