QA Automation Engineer - Herndon, VA
Listed on 2026-05-30
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Software Development
DevOps, Software Engineer
QA Automation Engineer
Job #: 26-2268
Location:
Herndon, VA
Since our inception back in 2006, Navitas has grown to be an industry leader in the digital transformation space, and we’ve served as trusted advisors supporting our client base within the commercial, federal, and state and local markets.
What We DoAt our very core, we’re a group of problem solvers providing our award‑winning technology solutions to drive digital acceleration for our customers! With proven solutions, award‑winning technologies, and a team of expert problem solvers, Navitas has consistently empowered customers to use technology as a competitive advantage and deliver cutting‑edge transformative solutions.
What You’ll DoWe are seeking a highly skilled QA Automation Engineer with strong experience in modern UI test automation, API validation, and end‑to‑end quality engineering practices. The ideal candidate will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining scalable automation frameworks that support enterprise‑grade applications across multiple environments. This role requires a proactive engineer who can drive automation quality, improve release confidence, and collaborate closely with QA, development, Dev Ops, and business stakeholders to ensure reliable software delivery.
The candidate should possess deep hands‑on expertise in Playwright, Type Script, and Cucumber/BDD, along with strong debugging capabilities across UI, API, database, and CI/CD layers. This position requires ownership of automation stability, framework scalability, and execution strategy within fast‑paced Agile delivery environments.
Responsibilities- Design, develop, maintain, and enhance scalable automation frameworks using Type Script, Playwright, and Cucumber/BDD.
- Build reusable page objects, shared hooks, utilities, and stable locator strategies for dynamic enterprise applications.
- Develop and execute end‑to‑end automated tests across UI, API, and database layers.
- Perform authenticated API validation and backend SQL verification to ensure data integrity and workflow accuracy.
- Troubleshoot and debug automation failures across application, API, database, and environment layers.
- Create and maintain Git Hub Actions CI/CD pipelines for smoke, shakeout, regression, and environment‑specific test execution.
- Integrate reporting tools such as Allure for test reporting, analytics, and failure triage.
- Manage automation codebase activities including branching, pull requests, merges, and conflict resolution using Git best practices.
- Improve framework maintainability, reduce flaky tests, optimize runtime performance, and enhance automation reliability.
- Collaborate with developers, QA analysts, Dev Ops engineers, and release teams to align automation coverage with evolving business requirements.
- Support complex workflow automation including MFA/OTP validation, role‑based access, portal‑to‑portal workflows, and multi‑user scenarios.
- Develop reusable test data management utilities including setup/teardown flows and seeded test data support.
- Participate in sprint planning, test strategy discussions, release readiness, and defect triage activities.
- Mentor junior automation engineers and promote consistency in framework usage, debugging practices, and automation standards.
- Contribute to automation roadmap planning, suite segmentation strategies, and long‑term framework direction.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in QA automation engineering or SDET roles.
- Strong hands‑on experience with:
- Type Script / Playwright
- Cucumber/BDD
- Node.js ecosystem
- API automation and validation
- SQL and backend database verification
- Proven experience building scalable automation frameworks for enterprise applications.
- Experience implementing CI/CD automation pipelines using Git Hub Actions or similar tools.
- Strong understanding of Git workflows including branching, merging, pull requests, and code review processes.
- Experience handling dynamic UIs, unstable DOM structures, and component‑based frontend applications.
- Ability to analyze failures holistically across UI, API, DB, environment, and infrastructure…
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