[Hiring] Automated Test Engineer, Manager @IIIIIIUS

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.

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.
• 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.
• Design, develop, and maintain reusable automated functional, integration, and regression tests.
• Design strategy for switching roles in pipelined automated test jobs.
• Integrate automated suites into CI/CD pipelines, publish actionable results, and troubleshoot unreliable tests.
• Plan and collaborate on the implementation of AI-assisted testing and/or code review.
• Translate user stories and acceptance criteria into traceable test scenarios.
• Partner with data engineers to automate validation of ingestion, transformations, and migration results.
• Implement performance tests and collaborate with security specialists to integrate automated security checks.
• Maintain controlled test data and repeatable test setup; diagnose failures and document reproducible defects.
• Support user acceptance testing and accessibility verification.
• Report test coverage, execution results, defects, and release risks against agreed quality criteria.
• Track defect rates and trends to ensure measurable improvements.
• Plan and execute testing across development, test, staging, and production-like environments.
• Guide strategy for ensuring adequate fixture data and resources in lower environments.
• Participate in functional testing with business analysts, product owners, and users.
• Participate in Agile planning, reviews, and retrospectives.

What You Will Bring With You

• 5+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining automated test suites, preferably with Playwright and TypeScript.
• 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.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and managing test code through version control.
• Experience deriving functional, integration, and regression tests from requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Experience validating data-driven application behavior and using test evidence to identify quality issues.
• 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.

What We Would Like You To Bring With You

• 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.
• Experience validating AI-enabled search, document processing, or natural language workflows.
• Experience supporting federal modernization programs and producing test evidence for governance.

Professional Skills

• Communicate defects, test results, and release risks clearly to technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Organize testing across concurrent workstreams and proactively identify dependencies and blockers.
• Apply sound judgment to prioritize automation and investigate underlying causes of test failures.
• Collaborate across disciplines and take ownership of assigned testing activities through resolution.

Pay Range

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is: $108,476.00 - $184,409.00.