Senior Functional and Automated Tester

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Functional and Automated Tester based in the United States.

• Lead testing strategy and planning by defining scope, risks, environments, test data, tooling, timelines, and release-readiness requirements.
• Translate business and technical requirements into comprehensive test strategies, test plans, test cases, and validation approaches covering functional, integration, regression, performance, and security needs.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated tests for unit, API, integration, and user-interface testing, integrating repeatable automation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Execute hands-on functional testing across workflows, edge cases, data validation, error handling, and operational scenarios to ensure solutions meet business and user expectations.
• Validate distributed and event-driven architectures, including asynchronous workflows and message-based services such as Kafka, with emphasis on resiliency, traceability, and correct processing.
• Test API-centric architectures, including microservices and serverless applications, validating contracts, backward compatibility, integrations, and end-to-end behavior.
• Partner with DevSecOps and engineering teams to promote secure development practices, consistent standards, and effective quality controls.
• Coordinate test environments, deployments, configuration changes, and environment readiness with technical teams.
• Identify security and data risks during testing, document findings, escalate issues appropriately, and track defects through resolution.
• Lead defect triage and root-cause analysis, collaborate with developers and stakeholders to verify fixes, and introduce preventative quality measures.
• Validate observability practices, including logging, metrics, tracing, performance baselines, and operational readiness.
• Produce clear test evidence, defect reports, dashboards, diagrams, and runbooks suitable for leadership, operational, audit, and compliance needs.
• Apply approved AI-assisted development and testing tools to accelerate test creation, analysis, and defect triage while maintaining security and quality standards.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience; candidates without a relevant four-year degree may qualify with an additional four years of relevant experience.
• At least 8 years of experience in software testing, quality engineering, or software development with substantial testing and automation responsibilities.
• Proven experience owning test strategy and automation for complex, distributed, cloud-based, or enterprise applications.
• Strong functional testing and automation experience across the software development lifecycle, including regression planning and release readiness.
• Hands-on experience with automated testing for unit, API, integration, and user-interface layers, with familiarity with TDD and automation-first approaches.
• Experience working within CI/CD environments using source-control and build/deployment technologies such as GitLab or Jenkins and within DevSecOps/SecDevOps environments.
• Working knowledge of secure coding and engineering practices, including identifying risks and validating security controls.
• Experience testing event-driven and message-based systems, including Kafka and asynchronous processing.
• Experience testing microservices, serverless applications, APIs, and integration architectures.
• Familiarity with cloud and data-pipeline technologies such as Dataflow, Pub/Sub, and Redis.
• Strong technical fluency in one or more automation languages such as Java, Python, SQL, or JavaScript; familiarity with modern web frameworks such as React is a plus.
• Strong troubleshooting capabilities, including analyzing logs, metrics, and traces and isolating failures across distributed components.
• Knowledge of performance and reliability concepts, including performance tuning, multithreading, and observability.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to explain quality risks, technical findings, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with Agile and SDLC practices, ALM, change and configuration management, and tools such as VersionOne or ServiceNow is preferred.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Kubernetes security, and production-like containerized environments is a plus.
• Familiarity with approved AI-assisted testing and development tools, including OpenCode, Claude Code, or Gemini Vertex AI, is desirable.
• This position requires obtaining and maintaining a Public Trust and completing onsite fingerprinting as part of the security process.
• A U.S. residency requirement applies: candidates must meet applicable federal residency requirements concerning time spent outside the United States during the specified review period.

• Estimated base salary range of $96,569