Senior Test Software Engineer
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๐ฐ $135,000 - $170,000/yr
๐ Remote
Job Description:
- Establish software quality standards, test architecture guidelines, and defect prevention strategies across delivery streams
- Architect, build, and maintain scalable end-to-end automated UI and API test suites using Playwright and TypeScript across multiple product verticals
- Design and build automated data generation tools and synthetic applicant profile generators using Python and REST APIs
- Author and review technical specifications, test strategies, and quality risk assessments for feature initiatives
- Construct, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines supporting quality gates and feature-driven promotion practices
- Serve as a technical liaison to client leads and external vendor teams
- Advocate for developer self-service, smooth release gatekeeping, and collaborative troubleshooting
- Support cloud infrastructure updates using Terraform
- Embed automated security scanning
- Navigate continuous compliance processes in a FedRAMP/Public Trust environment
Requirements:
- 5+ years of professional experience developing full-stack applications and tooling using TypeScript and Python
- Practical experience writing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform
- Experience designing complex systems interacting with external services, databases, and third-party APIs
- Experience working on cross-functional agile teams
- Experience estimating complex engineering tasks
- Experience communicating technical updates directly to client stakeholders
- Strong diagnostic skills for complex, distributed multi-vendor application failures and microservices
- Prior experience on federal government digital service projects or civic tech programs
- Familiarity with AWS GovCloud environments
- Familiarity with FedRAMP compliance standards
- Familiarity with observability tooling
- Experience implementing synthetic test data generators or complex mock data services
- Legal authorization to work in the United States
- Ability to meet other government contract requirements for which candidates are hired
- Work authorization that does not require visa sponsorship now or in the future
- May be subject to a government background check or security clearance
Benefits:
- $0โ$50K bonus
- Healthy work-life balance
- Encouragement to log off at the end of the day
- Time off when needed
- Fully remote work
- Occasional travel, approximately 1โ2 times per year
- Modern cloud development environments
- AI-integrated workflows