Automated Test Engineer, Manager

ICF is seeking an Automated Test Engineer, Manager to support a Federal Government agency client. You will help deliver reliable cloud applications, data services, and AI-enabled capabilities across an enterprise data lakehouse platform. You will build and maintain automated tests, integrate them into continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and provide evidence that releases meet acceptance criteria. Working with developers and business analysts, you will help continue building the maturity of the Playwright testing suite and expand testing across application workflows and supporting data services. Job Location – Remote within the US; Must be able to support EST hours What You Will Do - Manage and mentor the Automated Test Team, strengthen team coverage, and provide strategic direction and preparation that identify risks, gaps, and dependencies earlier. - Ask proactive questions and develop deep, end-to-end expertise in the testing tools and platform. - Extend and maintain the existing Playwright/Cucumber framework using the Page Object Model, and recommend improvements as the platform evolves. - Design, develop, and maintain reusable automated functional, integration, and regression tests for application workflows and supporting services, including APIs where applicable. - Design strategy for switching roles in pipelined automated test jobs and provide guidance for application/ops teams toward support of those patterns. - Integrate automated suites into CI/CD pipelines, publish actionable results, and troubleshoot unreliable tests to support repeatable execution and release quality gates. - Plan and collaborate on the implementation of AI-assisted testing and/or code review. - Translate user stories and acceptance criteria into traceable test scenarios, including negative cases, role-based access, and dependencies across workstreams; prioritize automation by risk and business impact. - Partner with data engineers to automate validation of ingestion, transformations, and migration results, checking data completeness, accuracy, and consistency across source and target systems. - Implement performance tests and collaborate with security specialists to integrate automated security checks, investigate findings, and verify fixes before release. - Maintain controlled test data and repeatable test setup; diagnose failures, document reproducible defects, and work with developers to resolve issues and verify corrections. - Support user acceptance testing and accessibility verification by preparing regression evidence and coordinating automated checks with required manual validation. - Report test coverage, execution results, defects, and release risks against agreed quality criteria; collaborate with developers on critical-service unit coverage and documented exceptions - Track defect rates and trends to ensure that changes to testing posture results in measurable improvements. - Plan and execute testing across development, test, staging, and production-like environments, validating environment readiness, configuration consistency, integrations, and successful promotion through release gates. - Guide strategy for ensuring adequate fixture data and resources in lower