[Hiring] Platform Engineer / Automation Tester @General Dynamics Information Technology

Role Description

GDIT has an opportunity for a dynamic and talented platform engineer / automation test engineer to join our team supporting the Administrative Office of the US Courts (AOUSC) Case Management Systems Office (CMSO) in its modernization effort for one of its mission-critical applications that is used by all U.S. district and appellate courts’ staff members and external stakeholders. Over 59 million cases are managed on current systems with more than 1 million unique users. CMSO has a mature agile practice using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and supports a broad range of complex business systems which are instrumental to the AOUSC mission.

• Demonstrated experience guiding junior or mid‑level testers, including mentoring, code reviews, and contributing to automation strategy within Agile teams.
• Proven ability to take ownership of automation initiatives, lead framework enhancements, and influence testing direction across distributed teams.
• Evaluate and understand system requirements and capabilities for test automation.
• Setup and configure test automation framework in the cloud environment.
• Facilitate continuous development and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.
• Work with manual testers to ensure that automation is prioritized to get maximum value.
• Design, develop and run automated test scripts in the cloud.
• Comply with established version control and coding standards.
• Develop test procedures to validate and verify requirements and capabilities.
• Configure test environments and test data set.
• Understanding of software lifecycle management skills related to application development tasks and planning testing cycles.
• Ability to apply in-depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle in order to help anticipate complexities in the system.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Experience with modern web client technologies and the associated front-end to backend interactions.
• Developing/testing software using an Agile/Scrum methodology.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or other related scientific or technical discipline.
• 5+ years of experience developing automated test scripts on ReactJS and NodeJS with Selenium, Playwright, jest, mocha, chai, etc.
• 5+ years of experience in setup and configuration of test automation framework in the cloud environment (AWS / Azure).
• Experience testing APIs through gateway and cloud services.
• Expert knowledge in industry standards cloud-based test automation frameworks.
• Familiarity with standard concepts, practices, and procedures of cloud technology, including Software as Service (SaaS), Platform as Service (PaaS), or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Ability to independently setup and configure test automation framework in cloud (Azure or AWS).
• Demonstrated experience in implementing DevOps methodologies, including CI/CD practices using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Experienced in testing containerized applications utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.
• Managing and executing tests using NUnit and TestNG.
• Experience in developing test plans/procedures, expected outcomes, and verification statements.
• Comprehensive understanding of Cloud, Agile & DevSecOps methodology and culture.
• Working knowledge of Source Version Control and Build/Release tools and methodologies. Working knowledge of Software Build process.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and ability to work with people at every level.

Requirements

• 5+ years of related experience.
• US Citizenship Required: No.

Benefits

• A variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts.
• Dental plan options.
• A vision plan.
• A 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
• Full flex work weeks where possible.
• A variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness.
• 10 paid holidays per year.
• The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
• Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.