Quality Assurance Engineer (Automation) - Remote

ICF International • Reston, VA

75d • $67,020 - $137,860 • Remote

About The Position

ICF is hiring a Quality Assurance Engineer to deliver new test functionality and support existing frameworks. This position requires strong deductive reasoning, attention to detail, persistence, patience, and creativity. The individual will work with our component, integration, internal development teams, and Business Analysts teams to analyze, build and maintain test frameworks and suites across all test phases. The individual also work with our business, development, and testing teams to analyze, build and maintain processes across the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• 4+ years of experience with test automation development (eg: Ruby, Playwright, JS, Python, Selenium).
• 4+ years of experience with Frontend, Backend, and API testing.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance; must reside in the US, be authorized to work in the US; work must be performed in the US.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to design/architect, build, program, test and deploy solutions using an Agile methodology.
• Ability to optimize code/script using industry best practices and standards.
• Ability to work in a dynamic and rapidly evolving environment.
• Strong hands-on skills in SQL development; ability to create ad-hoc queries to meet business needs.
• Strong self-organization and self-management skills, with emphasis on self-initiation and follow-through.
• Demonstrated functional test experience, including test analysis.

Responsibilities

• Review and analyze business requirements to produce comprehensive, and well-structured test strategy and test cases.
• Design and create test conditions and scripts to address business and technical use cases.
• Design, Develop and Execute automated scripts using our test automation framework.
• Support the automated functional testing by our testing team, focusing on application flow and validation of test results.
• Perform manual and automated testing, which may include exploratory, system, regression, compatibility, system, and integration testing.
• Work directly with the Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence and Data Engineering teams to ensure all work is thoroughly tested.
• Communicate effectively across multiple teams/external vendors (Operations, Quality Service, etc.), as well as different personnel (Developers, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, etc.).
• Participate in relevant Agile Ceremonies: Daily Stand-Ups, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
• Analyze data and application changes and document their impact on the performance automation task (test cases, scripting, scenario execution, etc.).
• Ensure the test execution results fulfill the defined test objectives.
• Interface directly with the DevOps and Infrastructure teams regarding Functional test environments.
• Timely and accurate communication of testing events, daily status, and test execution results, etc.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees