Qa Automation Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Minimum two years of professional experience in software quality assurance, test automation, or test engineering.
• Hands-on experience testing Appian applications or comparable low-code enterprise platforms.
• Experience executing functional, regression, integration, system, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience developing or maintaining automated testing frameworks.
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases.
• Experience testing system integrations, database conversions, data migrations, or data-intensive applications.
• Ability to interpret source-to-target mappings, transformation rules, requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience managing defects and test execution through Jira, Xray, or comparable tools.
• Familiarity with continuous integration pipelines and Git or GitHub workflows.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Ability to pass a government background investigation and satisfy public trust requirements.
• US citizenship or a US Green Card is required.

Nice To Haves

• Four or more years of experience in software quality assurance, automated testing, or test engineering.
• Appian testing experience involving records, process models, interfaces, integrations, plugins, and custom components.
• Experience with FitNesse for Appian or another Appian test-automation tool.
• Experience with Ruby, JRuby, Java, Python, or a comparable automation language.
• Experience creating automated SQL-based reconciliation or data-quality tests.
• Experience supporting migration rehearsals, production cutovers, rollback testing, and post-deployment validation.
• Experience with Jenkins, Docker, RubyMine, AWS-hosted environments, or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with federal system testing, documentation, security, and release-management requirements.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute functional, regression, integration, system, and end-to-end tests for Appian applications.
• Validate Appian interfaces, records, process models, business rules, reports, integrations, plugins, and custom components.
• Translate requirements and acceptance criteria into detailed test cases and traceable test evidence.
• Create and manage test data across development, testing, staging, migration, and production-support environments.
• Document, prioritize, and track defects through resolution and retesting.
• Support formal testing, user acceptance testing, and release-readiness decisions.
• Design, develop, execute, and maintain automated regression and integration test suites for Appian applications.
• Analyze failed automated tests and distinguish application defects from test-script, data, pipeline, and environmental issues.
• Stabilize unreliable tests and improve the consistency and maintainability of automated execution.
• Integrate automated testing into Jenkins or comparable continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
• Maintain automation code through Git or GitHub source-control workflows.
• Support containerized test execution using Docker or comparable technologies.
• Connect automated test results with Jira, Xray, or comparable test-management tools.
• Review source-to-target mappings, data-transformation requirements, interface specifications, and business rules with technical and functional team members.
• Develop and execute SQL queries that validate source and target data.
• Compare record counts, field values, relationships, statuses, dates, and calculated values before and after migration or integration processing.
• Validate data completeness, accuracy, uniqueness, referential integrity, and compliance with business rules.
• Support mock migrations, cutover activities, rollback testing, and post-migration validation.
• Verify that Appian reports, interfaces, records, and integrations function correctly with migrated and integrated data.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, release planning, quality reviews, and retrospectives.
• Provide status updates on test execution, automation health, migration results, defects, dependencies, and risks.
• Help define quality gates and exit criteria for application releases and migration events.
• Produce test summaries, reconciliation reports, defect metrics, and release-readiness documentation.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Employer-paid life insurance
• Long- and short-term disability coverage
• Generous 401(k) match
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays