Test Automation Engineer, Senior

AdaptiveVets Solutions is seeking a Senior Test Automation Engineer to develop and maintain automated testing frameworks supporting secure software delivery for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

This senior role leads quality assurance engineering across a mission-critical DevSecOps delivery environment, ensuring all platform deliverables meet the highest standards of quality, security, and reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and maintain enterprise automated testing frameworks for unit, integration, regression, performance, security, and post-deployment validation.
• Lead CI/CD quality gate design and implementation, ensuring automated quality enforcement for all software deliverables.
• Define testing standards, test plan templates, and quality assurance processes.
• Lead post-deployment production validation testing, ensuring all platform changes are verified before sprint closure.
• Coordinate with DevSecOps, software engineering, and security teams to integrate security testing and Section 508 compliance validation.
• Mentor Test Automation Engineers, establishing team testing standards and advancing automated test coverage.
• Produce test metrics, quality trend reports, and sprint quality assessments for program leadership.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or related field (4 additional years of relevant experience may substitute)
• 8+ years of test automation engineering experience including framework architecture for enterprise cloud systems
• Expert proficiency in automated test framework development for unit, integration, regression, performance, security, and post-deployment testing
• Experience designing CI/CD quality gate frameworks in Kubernetes-based delivery pipelines
• Demonstrated experience mentoring QA engineers and defining organizational testing standards

Preferred Qualifications

• ISTQB Advanced Level Test Automation Engineer certification
• Experience with security testing frameworks and Section 508 accessibility validation
• Familiarity with performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, Gatling)

Education

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or IT (Required)

Experience

* Senior test automation framework development: 8 years (Required)

License/Certification

• ISTQB Advanced Level Test Automation Engineer (Preferred)
• Certified Software Test Engineer (CSTE) (Preferred)

Location and Ability to Commute

* Remote

Security clearance

* Public Trust (Preferred)

Pay: $125,163.00 - $147,250.00 per year

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Education

* Bachelor's (Required)

Experience

• Senior Test Automation Framework Development: 8 years (Required)
• Agile product development: 4 years (Preferred)

Language

* English (Required)

License/Certification

• ISTQB Advanced Level Test Automation Engineer (Preferred)
• Certified Software Test Engineer (CSTE) (Preferred)

Security clearance

* Confidential (Preferred)

Work Location: Remote