Senior SDET / QA Automation Engineer

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in SDET, QA automation, or a related discipline.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright and/or Cypress for end-to-end UI test automation.
• Strong API testing skills with Postman (including collections, environments, and Newman for CI execution) and/or REST Assured.
• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Python, including writing production-quality test code.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, such as GitLab CI/CD or Jenkins.
• Familiarity with AWS services such as Cognito, RDS, DynamoDB, and CloudWatch, and their use in end-to-end testing.
• Experience testing authentication and authorization flows, including OAuth2, SAML, OIDC, and MFA.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, REST, JSON, and web application architecture.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize across multiple projects, and clearly communicate quality risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Preferred: Experience with synthetic monitoring and uptime automation, such as Playwright-based health checks or Pingdom scripting.
• Preferred: Familiarity with NIST 800-171, CMMC, or FedRAMP testing and traceability requirements.
• Preferred: Experience testing applications hosted in Azure GCC High or AWS GovCloud environments.
• Preferred: Background in performance or load testing with tools such as k6, JMeter, or Locust.
• Preferred: Experience with accessibility testing (WCAG 2.1, Section 508) and security-focused test cases, including OWASP Top 10 validation.
• Preferred: ISTQB certification or an equivalent QA/testing credential.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain end-to-end UI automation frameworks with Playwright and/or Cypress across multiple web applications.
• Develop and maintain API and backend test suites using Postman collections and REST Assured, validating authentication flows, data integrity, and service contracts.
• Write and maintain clean test code in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript, applying consistent standards through code reviews and shared libraries.
• Create reusable test utilities, fixtures, and data factories to reduce setup effort and improve test suite reliability.
• Integrate automated test suites into GitLab CI/CD pipelines and enforce quality gates on pull requests and deployments.
• Configure and maintain synthetic monitoring scripts, such as Playwright-based uptime checks, and investigate false positives.
• Define and monitor test coverage, pass rates, and flakiness trends, and share quality insights with engineering leadership.
• Validate REST APIs against specifications, including authentication and authorization flows using OAuth2, SAML, OIDC, and JIT provisioning patterns.
• Develop data-driven test scenarios for AWS-hosted services, including RDS/PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and Cognito, and Azure-backed platforms such as GCC High.
• Work with backend engineers to identify service-design testability gaps and recommend automation-supporting interface contracts.
• Partner with DevOps, software engineering, and IT teams to incorporate testing earlier in development and contribute to definition-of-done criteria.
• Act as the teams quality subject matter expert, mentoring engineers on testing practices, automation patterns, and tool selection.
• Maintain test documentation, plans, and traceability matrices for compliance audits and ATO evidence requirements.
• Assess and recommend improvements to QA tools and processes as our applications and team grow.

Technologies:

• API
• AWS
• Azure
• Backend
• CI/CD
• CloudWatch
• Cypress
• DevOps
• GitLab
• HTTP
• ISTQB
• Support
• JSON
• JavaScript
• Jenkins
• JMeter
• OWASP
• Playwright
• PostgreSQL
• Postman
• Python
• REST
• SAML
• Security
• TypeScript
• Web
• UX UI Design
• Cloud

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We are hiring a Senior SDET / QA Automation Engineer at Eccalon to lead automated testing across web applications and backend services supporting DoD, Intelligence, and enterprise programs. This hands-on senior role works across the engineering stack with software engineers, DevOps, and product teams to strengthen quality throughout development and support reliable delivery of mission-critical software in regulated, compliance-driven environments. This is not a remote position.

last updated 44 week of 2026