[Hiring] Automated Test Engineer, Manager @ICF

Role Description

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.

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 result 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 environments.
• Participate in functional testing with business analysts, product owners, and users to validate end-to-end workflows, confirm expected outcomes, document defects, and verify resolutions.
• Participate in Agile planning, reviews, and retrospectives; maintain version-controlled test documentation and improve the automation approach as the platform evolves.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining automated test suites, preferably with Playwright and TypeScript, including reusable test components (Page Object Model), selector strategy for dynamic UIs, and failure diagnosis.
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience writing, debugging, and reviewing test automation code in TypeScript or Javascript.
• Experience writing Gherkin feature files and reusable step definitions with Cucumber or a comparable BDD framework.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and managing test code through version control and peer review.
• Experience deriving functional, integration, and regression tests from requirements and acceptance criteria, documenting defects, and verifying fixes within an Agile delivery team.
• Experience validating data-driven application behavior and using test evidence to identify quality issues and assess release readiness.
• U.S. Citizenship required due to federal contract requirements.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a federal public trust or equivalent client-required background investigation.
• Candidate must reside in the U.S., be authorized to work in the U.S., and all work must be performed in the U.S.
• Candidate must have lived in the U.S. for three (3) full years out of the last five (5) years.

Requirements

• 2+ years experience acting as a Test Team Lead.
• Experience establishing test architecture for a new or modernized application.
• Experience testing Azure applications or data workflows involving Databricks, familiarity with Python or SQL for data validation.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and Scaled Agile Framework.
• Familiarity with Section 508 and WCAG accessibility testing, including the complementary roles of automated checks and manual evaluation.
• Experience validating AI-enabled search, document processing, or natural language workflows against defined evaluation criteria.
• Experience supporting federal modernization programs and producing test evidence for governance, acceptance, or compliance reviews.

Benefits

• Work Authorization and Sponsorship: All candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. This position is not eligible for new H-1B visa sponsorship by ICF.
• Reasonable Accommodations are available for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs in all phases of the application and employment process.
• Pay Range: $108,476.00 - $184,409.00 based on full-time employment.