QA Automation Test Engineer

Requirements:

• U.S. citizenship is required for this Department of Defense-supported effort. No clearance is needed to start, but candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain a clearance up to Top Secret/SCI; we may sponsor or maintain it.
• A bachelors degree in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least three years of experience in software quality assurance, software testing, test automation, or a related engineering role.
• Strong knowledge of software testing principles, methodologies, and the software development lifecycle.
• Professional experience with TypeScript or JavaScript and an automated testing framework such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or a comparable tool.
• Experience creating and maintaining automated UI, end-to-end, functional, and regression tests.
• Experience with Cucumber, Gherkin, or behavior-driven development.
• Experience testing React applications and modern component-based interfaces.
• Familiarity with Vite and experience testing or supporting Electron desktop applications.
• Experience designing and running test cases, analyzing results, reporting defects, and tracing tests to requirements.
• Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, debugging, and communication abilities.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in an Agile environment, and to learn and work with complex software systems and technical environments.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.
• Preferred: Experience building or extending TypeScript, Playwright, and Cucumber/Gherkin automation frameworks; testing Material UI components, complex React workflows, and Electron applications; or working with Cesium, GIS, virtual globes, mapping applications, or geospatial interfaces.
• Preferred: Experience testing map interactions and workflows, including panning, zooming, layers, entity selection, terrain, imagery, visualization, and coordinates.
• Preferred: Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar tools; proficiency with Git and collaborative source control; or familiarity with Jira, Azure DevOps, GitLab, or other test management and defect tracking tools.
• Preferred: Experience with Python or C++, modeling and simulation, mission-support applications, Windows or Linux, basic networking and troubleshooting, or mentoring junior test engineers and improving QA processes.

Responsibilities:

• Work with developers, systems engineers, and stakeholders to understand requirements and define test plans, test cases, and acceptance criteria.
• Develop, run, and maintain automated tests using TypeScript, Playwright, Cucumber, and Gherkin, including end-to-end, functional, integration, and regression coverage for a React and TypeScript application.
• Create reusable automation frameworks, fixtures, utilities, test data, and reporting components.
• Test React, Material UI, Vite, and Electron applications, covering navigation, forms, dialogs, tables, validation, accessibility, error handling, window behavior, and file access.
• Test Cesium geospatial features, including map navigation, terrain, imagery, layers, entity interaction, visualization, and coordinate-based workflows.
• Maintain BDD feature files and TypeScript step definitions, linking them to system requirements.
• Review test results, investigate failures, distinguish application defects from test or environment issues, and document defects for resolution.
• Perform exploratory and risk-based testing to uncover usability concerns, edge cases, and defects that automation may miss.
• Run regression tests and contribute to release qualification.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and improve test execution, reporting, and reliability.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and peer reviews, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives, daily standups, and reviews of test plans, cases, automation code, and technical documentation.
• Guide junior QA engineers and help develop QA standards, processes, and testing methods.

Technologies:

• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cucumber
• Cypress
• DevOps
• Electron
• GIS
• Git
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Support
• JIRA
• JavaScript
• Jenkins
• Linux
• Material UI
• Playwright
• Python
• React
• Security
• Selenium
• TypeScript
• Windows
• UX UI Design
• Cloud

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We are MartinFed, founded in Huntsville, Alabama, in 2007. We provide the U.S. government with customer-focused, performance-based technology solutions and an empowered workforce supporting customer missions. We invest in our people and value drive, curiosity, humility, and excellence. We are seeking a mid-level QA Automation Test Engineer for our Mission Solutions modeling and simulation development team. The work supports a national defense mission by integrating intelligence-backed, medium- to high-fidelity threat system models into a wargame simulation environment and focuses on the quality, reliability, and usability of an application built with React, TypeScript, Vite, Electron, Material UI, and Cesium. The role is based in an office environment, involves extended computer use and periods of sitting, and may include a fast pace and tight deadlines. We are an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants in accordance with applicable nondiscrimination laws. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans.

last updated 44 week of 2026