Senior Software Test Engineer
On-siteWashington, United States or Chesapeake, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Design, develop, and maintain robust end-to-end automation suites for complex web application workflows using Playwright with TypeScript/JavaScript. Architect scalable, maintainable test frameworks and shared libraries adopted across multiple engineering teams, leveraging frontier LLM models to increase development velocity. Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, confident, continuous delivery while triaging, root-cause, and driving resolution of defects and flaky tests. Write production-quality code daily, including page objects, fixtures, custom utilities, and API test harnesses. Partner with developers, product managers, and DevOps to shift quality left and embed testability into design decisions. Mentor engineers on automation best practices and code review test code with a critical eye.
Required Qualifications
- U.S. Citizen
- active U.S. Dept. of Defense Secret security clearance
- TS/SCI eligibility
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field
- 5+ years of software quality engineering or software development experience
- Extensive, demonstrable experience using Playwright to automate workflows in modern web applications
- Strong professional experience writing JavaScript/TypeScript
- Experience working in startups or small, fast-moving teams where you owned outcomes end-to-end
- Solid understanding of CI/CD practices and integrating automated tests into build pipelines
- Deep knowledge of testing strategy: E2E, API, integration, and component testing trade-offs
- Strong debugging skills across the stack — browser internals, network traffic, async behavior, race conditions
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence quality practices across teams
Desired Qualifications
- BS in Computer Science or a closely related field
- MS in Computer Science
- Experience with cloud platforms — GCP, AWS, or Azure
- Experience with API testing, contract testing, or performance/load testing
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code
- Prior experience with scaling test automation in a large engineering organization
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