QA Automation Engineer

Guidehouse • San Antonio, TX

1d • $70,000 - $116,000 • Remote

About The Position

The QA Automation Engineer develops, maintains, and executes automated tests to validate application functionality across user roles and workflows. The role designs UI automation with tools such as Playwright and helps ensure test coverage is reliable, maintainable, and aligned with release objectives. It leads automation initiatives, including integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps processes, and also performs manual feature testing, stress testing, and periodic full-suite regression testing. The engineer organizes test suites in TestRails or a similar tool, reviews peers’ automation code, and communicates execution results, defects, risks, and recommendations to stakeholders throughout release cycles.

The role supports enterprise systems and AWS-based workloads, collaborating remotely with team members in an Agile delivery environment. It tests and validates applications and workloads against AWS Well-Architected Framework principles and related quality standards. The position requires U.S. citizenship or Green Card status and the ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance. The stated annual salary range is $70,000 to $116,000; compensation depends on factors including skills, experience, training, clearances, certifications, and business needs. The position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship or Green Card status, and ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
• At least four years of experience in quality assurance, software testing, or application development for enterprise systems.
• At least two years of experience providing quality assurance and testing support for AWS-based workloads.
• Bachelor’s degree or four additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• Demonstrated experience with manual and automated testing, including defect documentation, issue reproduction, regression testing, and validation.
• Strong experience developing test automation using Playwright with JavaScript or TypeScript, as well as 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 remotely and collaborate with, mentor, and support team members in resolving 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts to validate application functionality across user roles and workflows.
• Design and implement UI automation using tools such as Playwright, with reliable, maintainable test coverage aligned with release objectives.
• Lead test automation initiatives, including integration of automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps processes.
• Conduct manual testing of individual features and stress testing to support high-quality deployments.
• Create and organize testing suites in TestRails or a similar tool.
• Periodically run the full manual test suite for 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.
• Collaborate with, mentor, and support team members to resolve complex technical issues.
• Test and validate workloads against AWS Well-Architected Framework principles and related quality standards.

Benefits

• Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance.
• Personal and family sick time and company-paid holidays.
• Parental leave.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Group term life and travel assistance.
• Voluntary life and AD&D insurance.
• Health savings account and health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
• Transit and parking commuter benefits.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Tuition reimbursement, personal development, certifications, and learning opportunities.
• Employee referral program.
• Corporate-sponsored events and community outreach.
• Care.com annual membership.
• Employee assistance program.
• Supplemental benefits via Corestream, including critical care, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, legal assistance, and identity theft protection.
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus.
• Flexible benefits package.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level