QA / Test Automation Engineer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a QA / Test Automation Engineer based in the United States. As a Mid-Level QA / Test Automation Engineer, you will help ensure the reliability and release readiness of modern Java-based applications hosted in AWS. You will combine manual and automated testing across web applications, APIs, databases, integrations, and end-to-end business processes. The role offers the opportunity to contribute to a large-scale software modernization program within an agile, cloud-focused environment. You will translate requirements and acceptance criteria into thorough test strategies, identify quality risks, and validate fixes throughout the development lifecycle. Working alongside developers, product, DevSecOps, security, data, and business teams, you will help build dependable and secure software. Your work will also support reusable automation, CI/CD quality gates, test coverage, and continuous improvements to testing practices. This is a fully remote opportunity for an experienced QA professional who enjoys solving complex technical problems and improving software quality. Review user stories, acceptance criteria, application designs, API specifications, data mappings, and AWS documentation to identify test conditions, expected results, and potential quality risks. Create, execute, and maintain manual testing across functional, system, regression, smoke, integration, API, database, data validation, and user acceptance scenarios. Develop and maintain reusable automated test scripts, components, test data, locators, validations, and regression suites using appropriate automation tools and frameworks. Test web interfaces, REST and SOAP APIs, databases, integrations, authentication services, data exchanges, legacy interfaces, workflows, reports, and downstream systems. Execute automated tests across AWS-hosted environments, analyze logs and execution evidence, troubleshoot failures, and maintain test suites as applications evolve. Prepare test data, capture supporting evidence, maintain requirements traceability, and document testing results and release outcomes. Identify, document, and track defects with clear reproduction steps, severity, expected versus actual results, environment details, and supporting evidence; participate in defect triage and verify fixes. Use application, cloud, and pipeline logs to support defect isolation and root-cause analysis. Collaborate with Java developers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, AWS and DevSecOps engineers, integration and data teams, security specialists, vendors, and business stakeholders throughout sprint and release cycles. Support automated test execution within CI/CD pipelines, scheduled regression testing, and release validation, improving test reliability in partnership with senior QA and DevSecOps team members. Contribute to test estimates, sprint planning, coverage assessments, release-readiness reviews, quality metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives. Help strengthen testing practices related to cloud reliability, security, accessibility, data consistency, and operational readiness. Requirements: Bachelor’s degree and at least four years of experience in software quality assurance, application testing, system testing, or a related technical field. Ability to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust, with approved adjudication required before onboarding; candidates with an existing Public Trust or suitability determination are preferred. Hands-on experience testing Java-based web applications, services, APIs, integrations, databases, and data flows. Practical experience developing, maintaining, executing, and troubleshooting automated tests using one or more automation tools or frameworks. Experience building reusable automated test components, managing test data and locators, applying validations, and interpreting automated test results. Experience testin