Automation Test Engineer

Karsun Solutions, LLC•Herndon, VA

3d•$95,000 - $115,000

About The Position

Innovate, Grow and Do Extraordinary “Together”, is at the core of everything we do at Karsun! At Karsun we defy assumptions and enable transformation as IT modernization experts. Our people and client-first focus, innovation and performance driven culture empowers and encourages our employees with the autonomy to innovate, and be accountable to take ownership and seek advancement opportunities for personal growth. The Karsun team is responsible for new application development, maintenance, enhancement, and operation. The Karsun software development team is responsible for the software design and implementation of replacement and modernization of existing legacy applications.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar discipline
Strong programming/scripting experience and passion for testing
Minimum 3+ years of experience with either Java or TypeScript.
Minimum of 4 years’ experience in Test Automation including planning, assessments, script development & maintenance preferably in cloud environment.
Minimum of 3 years of experience in manual functional and regression testing and preparing relevant test cases
Minimum of 4 years demonstrated experience in one or more of the following testing toolsets/frameworks: Selenium Grid/WebDriver, Protractor/Jasmin, Cucumber/Gherkin, jUnit, TestNG, Github/Bitbucket, JMeter, Gatling, New Relic or dynaTrace etc
Experience working with databases and various data formats and related technologies for testing
Minimum of 4 years of demonstrated experience in one or more of the following: Java, Groovy, JavaScript, Eclipse, IntelliJ, XML, JSON
Experience in Agile and Scrum development methodologies
Experience in testing UI/UX best practices and 508 compliance
Knowledge in management tools such as JIRA Platform, Serena Business Manager, and/or HP Quality Center (QC)
Proven hands-on experience building and maintaining automation suites using Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium.
Experience or strong interest in AI-assisted testing and intelligent test design
Experience implementing behavior-driven development workflows using Cucumber.
Strong shift-left testing mindset with the ability to identify issues early in the development lifecycle
Proven experience in exploratory and negative-path testing to uncover edge cases and failure scenarios
Ability to review code and system designs from a quality, testability, and risk perspective
Skilled at building robust and resilient automation that goes beyond happy-path validation
Strong analytical skills to identify test gaps, analyze failures, and detect risk patterns
Ability to work closely with developers to debug, isolate, and resolve complex issues
Focus on defect prevention and continuous improvement in modern QA practices
Strong written and communication skills required
Must be a self-starter/self-directed member of the team

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated experience with Continuous Integration, including one or more of the following build/deploy/version control tools: Jenkins, Maven, Bamboo, uBuild / uDeploy, Grunt
Experience in all or some of the following programming platform: Linux Bash Scripting, Ruby, Python, PHP or Perl
JavaScript frameworks in HTML5/CSS3 context (AngularJS, Angular, jQuer, D3), RESTful APIs /JSON, Mobile development
Experience in developing in Cloud environment
Experience in API automation
Knowledge of SOA, Cloud and multi-tenant architectures

Responsibilities

Design and develop System Test Automation Scripts using Selenium, Protractor, Jasmin, Cucumber, or and equivalent tools
Experience in development using java and javascript languages
Support Test Automation Solution Planning and Estimation. Analyze current architecture and test platforms to formulate a vision for growth and expansion.
Perform detailed test designs using sound software test engineering principals in the context of test automation platforms and integration across distributed systems
Collaboratively elaborate requirements to enable Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) with BAs and developers
Perform tasks required for automated test implementation including review acceptance criteria (Gherkin scripts), create integration/regression test scenarios, test cases, implement test data management strategy, and generate required reports.
Improve existing test automation frameworks (i.e. make them faster, more flexible and easier to use). Utilize parallel processing or grid systems to speed up the tests
Gather non-functional performance requirements, analyze and strategize the performance test approach
Build performance testing frameworks that can be leveraged by development teams and QA teams to do their performance testing
Hands-on script development using JMeter or Gatling or other open source tools
Measure various aspect of the system performance, including throughput, response times, resource usage such as CPU, memory, thread utilization and IO statistics.
Ability to work closely with Application Development and DevOps teams to identify, troubleshoot and debug performance issues
Define and establish test metrics to measure not just product quality, but quality of testing and feedback to engineers