Test Automation Engineer

Ignite IT•Suitland-Silver Hill, MD

About The Position

The Test Engineer will support a large-scale government agency initiative to modernize a complex, interdependent data intensive system of systems transitioning from legacy on-premise platforms to AWS cloud-native architectures. This is not a traditional QA role. It is a cloud-native test automation engineering position responsible for ensuring functional equivalence, data integrity, and automated regression validation during migration from legacy technologies (e.g., SAS-based and file-driven systems) to modern Python-based serverless and microservices AWS Cloud Native applications. The Test Engineer will work as part of an Agile Scrum Team and collaborate with other Test Engineers in parallel workstreams to ensure the system of systems is validated end-to-end. This includes coordinated regression testing, integration validation, and synchronized release readiness across interconnected platforms.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in automated testing and quality engineering.
Expert-level proficiency in Python.
Expert-level proficiency in Selenium and UI automation frameworks.
Strong expertise in automation scripting languages (e.g., Bash, PowerShell, PyTest, Robot Framework, Behave, or similar).
Experience testing AWS Cloud Native applications.
Experience building automated testing frameworks for a legacy on-prem to cloud migration project.
Experience validating data-intensive applications and distributed systems.
Experience building CI/CD-integrated automated test frameworks.
Experience with relational databases (Postgres preferred).
U.S. Citizenship required.