Quality Assurance Engineer – Automation

Job Description: • 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. • Develop and maintain automation for both UI and API testing, leveraging tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, PyTest, and Postman. • Implement automated regression suites integrated into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar). • Collaborate with developers to validate microservices, containerized environments, and AWS-hosted applications. • Design performance, load, and reliability test scenarios to validate large-scale data processing and reporting systems. Requirements: • Bachelor’s degree OR completion of 6+ weeks of a programming boot camp plus 1+ year of IT-related experience; OR 4 years of relevant industry experience without a formal degree • 3+ years of experience with test automation development (eg : Cypress, Ruby, Playwright, JS, Python, Selenium). • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance • Must have lived in the US 3 full years out of the last 5 years • Must reside in the US, be authorized to work in the US; work must be performed in the US. • Strong hands-on skills in SQL development; ability to create ad-hoc queries to meet business needs. • Experience working with cloud-native environments (AWS preferred), microservices, and infrastructure-as-code pipelines. • Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools (e.g., Splunk, CloudWatch, New Relic) to validate releases and production health. Benefits: • ICF is an equal opportunity employer. • Reasonable Accommodations are available. • Professional development opportunities Apply tot his job