Test Engineer

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Active - Regular Full Time Salaried Arlington, VA, US

2 days ago Requisition

The Test Engineer is a member of the AAMVA Quality Assurance Department within the IT Division, responsible for testing AAMVA applications and the REST services and microservices that compose them, and for supporting testing efforts with state and federal jurisdictions and commercial/third-party data consumers on motor vehicle administration and driver licensing systems. This role executes and contributes to test plans, runs functional and automated tests, and participates in testing sessions with external customers, working with a degree of independence and seeking guidance from senior team members on complex initiatives.

It is a strong foundation for building modern quality engineering skills and growing toward senior technical roles.

The IT Division develops and operates information systems for state and federal agencies conducting business related to motor vehicle and driver license administration. Our systems support critical government functions across multiple jurisdictions. Our systems run on a cloud-native, microservices architecture on Azure with REST interfaces across all internal and external integrations, and we invest in automation-first, AI-assisted test engineering. Our in-house test platform abstracts much of the underlying infrastructure, so we value strong test-design judgment, data and integration testing depth, and learning agility over pre-existing mastery of any single platform technology.

• Create, execute, and maintain test cases, and contribute to test plans for AAMVA applications and their underlying REST services and microservices.
• Conduct functional, system, integration, and regression testing based on AAMVA's business and technical specifications.
• Build and maintain automated test scripts across UI, API/REST, and service layers, and run them within CI/CD pipelines.
• Perform API testing of RESTful services — request/response and schema validation, status codes, and authentication.
• Use existing service-virtualization and mocks to test components in isolation and manage test data (create/modify/reset) so tests are atomic and repeatable.
• Validate data across relational and No
  
  SQL data stores (Azure SQL, Cosmos DB).
• Participate in testing for jurisdictions and partners making system or platform changes, ensuring quality standards are maintained.
• Apply AI-assisted testing tools to speed up test creation, debugging, and reporting.
• Log, track, and manage defects through resolution using established tracking systems (e.g. Jira, Azure Dev Ops).
• Communicate issues clearly to technical teams and stakeholders, with steps to reproduce and supporting detail.
• Help determine whether a failure originates in the application, the test data, or a mocked dependency, escalating complex cases to senior team members.
• Facilitate and conduct testing sessions with jurisdictions and commercial/third-party consumers (e.g. DLDV, consumer-access, and CDLIS third-party customers) implementing new or enhanced applications.
• Conduct customer outreach including surveys, scheduling, and consultations.
• Build and maintain strong, positive relationships with internal and external customers.
• Attend meetings on testing schedules, concerns, reviews, and documentation changes, and participate actively in work groups.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including developers, business analysts, and project managers.
• Participate in the review of testing and procedural documentation.
• Build and maintain proficiency…