Mid-Level QA Automation Test Engineer

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Job Description:

Parsons is seeking a Mid-Level QA Automation Test Engineer to join our Mission Solutions modeling and simulation development team. You will help ensure the quality, reliability, and usability of a modern application that integrates intelligence-informed, medium- to high-fidelity threat system models into a wargame simulation environment supporting a critical national defense mission.

This is a hybrid role based in Huntsville, AL. The selected candidate must be local and able to report to the customer site as needed.

What You'll Be Doing:

Collaborate with developers, systems engineers, and stakeholders to understand requirements and define test plans, test cases, and acceptance criteria.

Design, develop, execute, and maintain automated tests using Type Script, Playwright, Cucumber, and Gherkin.

Build end-to-end, functional, integration, and regression test coverage for a React and Type Script application.

Create reusable automation frameworks, fixtures, utilities, test data, and reporting components.

Test web and Electron-based workflows, including navigation, forms, dialogs, tables, validation, accessibility, error handling, window behavior, and file access.

Validate Cesium-based geospatial capabilities, including map navigation, terrain, imagery, layers, entity interactions, visualization, and coordinate-based workflows.

Maintain BDD feature files and Type Script step definitions with traceability to system requirements.

Analyze test results, troubleshoot failures, and distinguish application defects from test automation or environmental issues.

Document defects clearly and collaborate with developers through resolution and verification.

Conduct exploratory and risk-based testing to identify usability issues, edge cases, and defects not covered by automation.

Support regression testing, release qualification, and continuous improvement of test execution and reporting.

Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and improve test stability, efficiency, and reliability.

Participate in Agile ceremonies and peer reviews, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, standups, demonstrations, retrospectives, and reviews of test artifacts and automation code.

Provide technical guidance to junior QA engineers and contribute to team-wide QA standards, processes, and testing methodologies.

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

Must be a U.S. Citizen.

Must be willing and able to obtain and maintain a security clearance up to Top Secret/SCI, which Parsons may sponsor and/or maintain.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field and 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance, software testing, test automation, or a related engineering role. Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree. Strong understanding of software testing principles, methodologies, and the software development lifecycle.

Professional experience with Type Script or JavaScript and an automated testing framework such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or a comparable tool.

Experience developing and maintaining automated UI, end-to-end, functional, and regression tests.

Experience with Cucumber, Gherkin, or other behavior-driven development practices.

Experience testing React applications or comparable component-based user interfaces.

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