Quality Assurance (QA) Automation Engineer

Position Overview

Northramp is seeking a detail-oriented Quality Assurance (QA) Automation Engineer to support the delivery of secure, reliable, and accessible software solutions in a federal environment.

In this role, you will lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of automated testing solutions across cloud-based applications and development environments. You will help ensure that new functionality, enhancements, integrations, and production releases meet established standards for quality, security, accessibility, performance, and reliability.

The Senior QA Automation Engineer will collaborate with software engineers, architects,Dev Sec Opsengineers , product owners, security personnel, and program leadership within aSAFeor similar Agile delivery environment. This position will also contribute to the program’s broader Quality Assurance and Quality Control strategy, including test planning, quality metrics, defect prevention, and federal audit support.

This is a primarily remote position supporting a federal program in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Candidates must live in MO, OR, NV, CO, AL, IL, PA, TX, DC, FL, MD, PA, TX, NC, or VA and be available for occasional onsite meetings, planning sessions, or other program activities as required.

Test Automation & Quality Engineering

• Design, develop, execute, andmaintainautomated tests for functional, regression, integration, API, performance, security, and accessibility testing.
• Build and enhance scalable test automation frameworks, reusable components, and testing standards that improve coverage and support frequent software releases.
• Translate requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria into traceable test cases and automated test scenarios.
• Apply test-driven development and shift-left testing practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Validate application functionality across development, integration, staging, pre-production, and production-like environments.

• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using Harness or comparable orchestration tools.
• Establish automated quality gates to prevent defective, insecure, or noncompliant code from progressing through the delivery pipeline.
• Partner with
  
  Dev Sec Opsand  engineering teams to troubleshoot failed builds, test failures, environment issues, and deployment defects.
• Incorporate automated performance, security, API, and accessibility testing into continuous delivery workflows.

• Develop andmaintaintest plans, test cases, test scripts, test data, execution results, traceability records, and audit-ready testing documentation.
• Support updates to Quality Assurance and Quality Control plans, application test plans, test strategy documents, and applicable federal systems lifecycle documentation.
• Maintainaccuratetestingartifacts in Jira, Confluence, and other approved repositories.
• Ensure documentation is complete, current, auditable, and aligned with sprint and program increment delivery cadences.
• Support Section
  508accessibility testing and preparation of related testing reports.

• Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects through resolution.
• Perform root cause analysis of escaped defects, recurring quality issues, and failed production deployments.
• Track and report quality indicators, including automated test coverage, pass rates, defectvolumeand severity, escaped defects, failed tests, and deployment failures.
• Recommend corrective actions and process improvements based on testing results and quality trends.
• Help ensure sprint deliverables meet established definitions of done and acceptance criteria.

• Develop and execute performance, load, stress, and resilience tests tovalidatesystem responsiveness, stability, availability, and capacity.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and engineering teams tovalidateremediation of security vulnerabilities and Plan of Action and Milestones items.
• Conduct automated and manual accessibility testingin accordance with Section 508 and applicable federal accessibility requirements.
• Help ensure applications appropriately protect personally identifiable and sensitive information.

• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, program increments, demonstrations, retrospectives, and release activities.
• Collaborate with product owners and…