Senior Functional & Automation Tester, Remote
Job Description:
- Plan, design, and execute functional and automated testing for modern applications, focusing on quality, security, performance, and operational readiness.
- Collaborate with Product, Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) teams.
- Lead sprint, release, and project planning by identifying testing scope, risks, environments, test data, and tools.
- Translate business and technical requirements into test strategies, plans, and detailed functional, integration, regression, performance, and security test cases.
- Review requirements and develop test cases, scripts, and data for workflows, edge cases, and error handling.
- Execute functional, manual, and exploratory testing and document results with reproduction steps and evidence.
- Build and maintain automated unit, API, integration, and UI tests using team frameworks and coding standards.
- Validate event- and message-based services and distributed workflows, including Apache Kafka message-queue systems.
- Test API-centric and cloud-ready architectures, including microservices and serverless applications.
- Log, track, and retest defects; participate in defect triage and root-cause analysis.
- Follow secure testing and data-handling procedures and escalate security or privacy concerns.
- Contribute to CI/CD testing by executing automated suites, reviewing results, and maintaining test automation.
- Maintain test plans, evidence, dashboards, and runbooks for auditable, operationally ready releases.
- Apply observability fundamentals, including logs, metrics, and alerts, to support troubleshooting and improve coverage.
- Use AI-assisted development and testing tools to accelerate test creation and analysis within quality and security guidelines.
- Perform other assigned duties supporting delivery, quality, and operational objectives.
Requirements:
- A degree from an accredited College/University in the applicable field of services is preferred.
- 8+ years of experience in software quality assurance/control, software development and/or related field.
- Experience working in Agile delivery teams and applying Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices.
- Familiarity with change/configuration management and lifecycle tooling (for example: VersionOne, ServiceNow) and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) practices.
- Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (for example: Docker, Kubernetes), including security and environment considerations.
- Experience with Kubernetes security practices and testing in containerized production-like environments.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development/testing tools such as OpenCode, Claude Code, and Gemini Vertex AI to improve efficiency in test creation and analysis (within approved governance).
- Extensive experience testing software applications, identifying/documenting defects, and working with developers and end users to resolve defects.
- Extensive experience with multiple defect tracking tools (e.g. Rational, Mercury).
- Experience producing test evidence and documentation suitable for audit or compliance reviews.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Must be a US Citizen or have permanent residence status (Green Card).
- Must be able to obtain Public Trust Clearance.
- Must have lived in the United States for the past 5 years.
- Cannot have more than 6 months travel outside the United States within the last 5 years. Military Service excluded.
Benefits:
- 100% remote position