Mid-Level QA Automation Test Engineer

MartinFed•Huntsville, AL

About The Position

MartinFed is seeking a Mid-Level QA Automation Test Engineer to join its Mission Solutions modeling and simulation development team. The effort supports a national defense mission by integrating intelligence-backed, medium- to high-fidelity threat system models into a wargame simulation environment. The engineer will help ensure the quality, reliability, and usability of an application built with React, TypeScript, Vite, Electron, Material UI, and Cesium. The role calls for independent test engineering, development and maintenance of automated tests, collaboration with developers, and guidance for junior QA engineers. The position collaborates with developers, systems engineers, and stakeholders to define test plans, test cases, and acceptance criteria. It develops and maintains automated testing frameworks and tests, including end-to-end, functional, integration, and regression coverage, and tests both web UI workflows and Cesium-based geospatial features. The engineer analyzes results, investigates and reports defects, conducts exploratory and risk-based testing, supports release qualification, and integrates automation into CI/CD pipelines. Participation in Agile activities and peer reviews is expected, as is contributing to QA standards and mentoring junior QA engineers. U.S. citizenship is required. No clearance is required to start, but the employee must be willing and able to obtain and maintain a security clearance up to Top Secret/SCI; MartinFed may sponsor and/or maintain the clearance. The work takes place in an inside office environment, involves extended computer use and potentially prolonged sitting, and can be fast-paced with extreme deadline pressures.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship is required.
A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
Three or more years of experience in software quality assurance, software testing, test automation, or a related engineering role.
Strong understanding of software testing principles, methodologies, and the software development lifecycle.
Professional experience with TypeScript or JavaScript and automated testing frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or comparable tools.
Experience developing and maintaining automated UI, end-to-end, functional, and regression tests.
Experience with Cucumber, Gherkin, or behavior-driven development.
Experience testing React applications and modern component-based user interfaces.
Familiarity with Vite and experience testing or supporting desktop applications built with Electron.
Experience designing and executing test cases, analyzing results, reporting defects, and maintaining traceability to requirements.
Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, debugging, and communication skills.
Ability to work independently and collaboratively in an Agile development environment.
Ability to learn and work with complex software systems and technical environments.
Ability and willingness to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance up to Top Secret/SCI.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing or extending automation frameworks using TypeScript, Playwright, and Cucumber/Gherkin.
Experience testing Material UI components and complex React workflows.
Experience testing Electron applications, including application configuration, window behavior, file access, or desktop packaging.
Experience with Cesium, geographic information systems, virtual globes, mapping applications, or other geospatial interfaces.
Experience testing map-based functionality such as panning, zooming, layer visibility, entity selection, terrain, imagery, dynamic visualization, and coordinate workflows.
Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or comparable tools.
Proficiency with Git and collaborative source-control workflows.
Familiarity with Jira, Azure DevOps, GitLab, or other test management and defect tracking tools.
Experience with Python and/or C++.
Familiarity with modeling and simulation concepts or mission-support applications.
Windows and/or Linux experience, including basic networking and troubleshooting.
Experience mentoring junior test engineers or contributing to QA standards and process improvement.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with developers, systems engineers, and stakeholders to understand requirements and develop test plans, test cases, and acceptance criteria.
Design, develop, execute, and maintain automated tests using TypeScript, Playwright, Cucumber, and Gherkin.
Build automated end-to-end, functional, integration, and regression tests for a React and TypeScript application.
Develop reusable automation frameworks, fixtures, utilities, test data, and reporting components.
Test React, Material UI, Vite, and Electron applications, including navigation, forms, dialogs, tables, validation, accessibility, error handling, window behavior, and file access.
Test Cesium-based geospatial functionality, including map navigation, terrain, imagery, layers, entity interaction, visualization, and coordinate-based workflows.
Create and maintain BDD feature files and TypeScript step definitions with traceability to system requirements.
Analyze test results, investigate failures, distinguish application defects from test or environmental issues, and document defects for resolution.
Conduct exploratory and risk-based testing to identify usability concerns, edge cases, and defects not covered by automation.
Execute regression testing and support release qualification activities.
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and improve test execution, reporting, and reliability.
Participate in Agile activities and collaborative peer reviews, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives, daily standups, and reviews of test plans, test cases, automation code, and technical documentation.
Provide technical guidance to junior QA engineers and contribute to QA standards, processes, and testing methodologies.