SDET & Test Automation Jobs

Job Title: Sr. Test EngineerLocation: Arlington, VADuration: 12 months

Client is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SSDET) who is well-versed in agile methodologies, has a constant focus on improving the QA process, is excellent at communication and can thrive in a fast-moving, hyper-growth environment. The Senior Software Development Engineer in Test will be part of a Software Engineering process that is highly agile, with short iterations with a big focus on test automation.

Responsibilities
• Develop, maintain and execute automated test scripts for service, acceptance, integration and regression testing;
• Design, develop, and expand on our test automation framework and research emerging automation technologies;
• Lead and engage with Product and engineering team to improve software development production and release speed;
• Develop the test coverage by defining testing setup and metrics; designing test cases and procedures; and documenting test results;
• Monitor, triage, debug bugs and helps identify fixes;

Qualifications
• Proven experience in both Unit and Integration testing needs with exposure to data virtualization tools;
• Deep experience testing across a variety of platforms: web and mobile user interface, APIs (REST and SOAP), and/or data warehouse reports;
• Demonstrated experience in software development to build and use automation frameworks using technologies: Java/.NET, JUnit, Selenium, JBehave, Soap UI/Pro, Spring framework, REST, JSON and XML, Eclipse IDE, etc.;
• Proficiency in developing high quality test strategies and test execution - specific focus on cross browser and cross device testing;
• Ability to create good acceptance and integration test automation scripts and integrate with Continuous integration (Jenkins/Bamboo) and code coverage tools (Sonar, Clover);
• Experience to Continuous integration and delivery concepts desirable;
• Exposure to performance engineering requirements desirable to develop non-function

Our client is looking for Senior SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) - who is based out of Reston, VA ONLY

This role is 3 Days Hybrid and 2 Days Remote Role

Senior SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test)

Highly experienced Senior SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) to help deliver test automation across our software development lifecycle. This role is ideal for someone with deep expertise in test automation, software development, and testing. You will work closely with developers, product managers, and DevOps to ensure our products meet the highest standards of reliability, performance, and scalability.

Key Responsibilities
• Design, develop, and maintain robust test automation frameworks for UI, API, DB and backend services.
• Drive quality initiatives across teams, including test strategy, coverage analysis, and CI/CD integration.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define acceptance criteria and ensure testability of features.
• Lead root cause analysis and debugging of complex issues in production and test environments.
• Advocate for shift-left testing and continuous quality improvements throughout the SDLC.
• Evaluate and integrate new tools and technologies to enhance testing efficiency and coverage.

Required Qualifications
• 10+ years of experience in software testing and automation.
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Java and or Python
• Expertise with Selenium, Selenide, Rest-Assured, JUnit/TestNG, Karate frameworks.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab).
• Solid understanding of software architecture, microservices, and cloud platforms (AWS).
• Proven ability to design scalable and maintainable test frameworks.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, Gatling).
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).

Test Automation Engineer

Comtech is a woman-owned small business founded in 1998 and headquartered in Reston, VA. We offer IT solutions across the disciplines of program/project management, applications development, infrastructure, Cyber security, and enterprise content/data management services. We have developed our methodologies and processes based on the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v.3 Framework across enterprise infrastructure operations. These methodologies and processes are reinforced through our organization's externally accredited certifications, which include ISO 9001:
2008 Quality Management System (QMS), ISO/IEC 20000-1:
2011 IT Service Management Systems (SMS, corporate ITIL certification), ISO 27001:
2005 Information Security Management System (ISMS), and CMMI-DEV Level 3.

Candidate must have a background in test automation, Web Application front-end development, or Siebel. Candidates with previous experience on Agile teams especially within Government agencies will be well suited for this position.

Key Responsibilities:
• Work closely with developers, professional services team and product managers to define the automated testing components that will be used to validate requirements against developed software
• Work with team members in adopting and learning test automation techniques
• Assist with Scrum Team estimation of stories and sizing of effort to include the representation of the test automation and engagement with Continuous Integration (CI) required
• Contributes to an atmosphere of cross-functional teamwork within the organizations' Agile project life cycle
• Execute automated testing on both Web Front end and back end systems
• Run test validations at various levels including DB validation, rules validation, logging validation, and UI validation
Qualifications

Minimum skills and qualifications:
• Candidate must have minimum 1 year of hands on automated test coding experience
• Candidate must be a team player and work closely with o

Company Overview

TestPros is a successful and growing business, established in 1988 to provide Information Technology (IT) technical support services to a wide range of Commercial and U.S. Federal, State, and Local Government customers. Our capabilities include Program Management, Program Oversight, Process Audit, Intelligence Analysis, Cyber Security, NIST SP 800-171 Assessment and Compliance, Computer Forensics, Software Assurance, Software Testing, Test Automation, Section 508 and WCAG Accessibility Assessment, Localization Testing, Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V), Quality Assurance (QA), Compliance, and Research and Development (R&D) services. TestPros is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

TestPros delivers innovative independent IT assessment solutions to critical challenges facing the nation and the world. We support the U.S. Federal Government and Commercial clients within the continental USA. TestPros is dedicated to making lives better, safer and more secure.

Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship

Location: New Carrollton MD, some travel might be required)

Clearance: Recent IRS Clearance

Start date: August/September

Project: The IRS requires contractor support to perform a variety of testing services, including Systems Acceptability Testing (SAT), Integration Testing, Performance Testing, and related support services like Test Automation and Test Data Management. These services ensure IRS applications and systems function as intended, comply with business requirements, and are free of defects before production implementation. The goal is to enhance the taxpayer experience by providing high-quality, accurate service.

The EST organization within IRS IT supports the modernization of tax processing systems, managing the software life cycle from requirements through to operations. The organization is responsible for executing applicable tests, tracking defects, and communicating results to stakeholders.

The IRS is evolving its testing methodologies to

Overview:

As a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice delivering quality assurance services to support application, cloud, and data systems development. We are looking for candidates with 3-5 years of experience in quality assurance and test automation practices within an Agile/DevSecOps work environment

Contributions:

Responsibilities
• Understand the needs of stakeholders and conveying requirements to development teams
• Collaborate with product design teams to determine testing parameters and acceptance criteria
• Write comprehensive test plans, create test cases, develop test procedures, document bug reports, and produce final QA reports for products
• Manage test data architecture definition and coordinate test data requests
• Develop automated testing scripts with consideration for parallelization and idempotency
• Integrate test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Execute testing and examination of code written by others and analyze results, including three or more of the following:
• Data validation testing
• Functional testing
• Performance and load testing
• Usability testing
• Accessibility (Section 508) testing
• Develop automated testing scripts considering parallelization and idempotency
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Document as-is state of the environment, perform gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement of services provided
• Present regular status updates and provide cross-training to other DevOps team members
• Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members

Qualifications:

Required
• * Ability to obtain a U.S

Role Test Analyst (SDET)

Assisting the agile team to define testable work that ensures that desired customer experiences and outcomes are achieved and are technically robust, high performing, stable and secure. Promoting continuous improvement and identifying opportunities for efficiencies to maximize the customer experience and reduce test cycle time. Reviewing design documents, business requirements (Stories), acceptance criteria, within the agile team to build test scenarios for testing activities. Review and provide feedback on project documents to aid creation of testing strategy, frameworks, script development standards, test plans and test is complete reports. Pro-actively sharing and reporting risks, issues, challenges, blockers and forthcoming tasks to the Scrum Master or Quality Manager. Accountable to ensure the defects are detected and reported to be prioritized (based on impact) with the Product Owners. Providing support in highlighting software and hardware requirements to ensure proficient delivery of your role. Actively contributes to their Centre of Excellence (CoE) specialism by cross sharing of learnings, emerging, good and best practice with their CoE colleagues. Also comply where required with CoE standards & policies.
Required Skills

AI ML

Automation Testing - Talos

Cypress

ML/NLP Testing

Python

Rest Assured

Selenium

Web services Testing-SOAP UI
Job Info

Job Identification: 615321

Posting Date: 03/09/2026, 12:55 PM

Job Schedule: Full time

Locations: United States

Lane of Recruitment: Lane 1

Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)

Ten Mile Square Technologies is a high-end technology consulting firm based in the Northern Virginia area. Our customers routinely call upon us to solve some of the largest scale and hardest problems in computer science and software development. If you have a solid grounding in software engineering, continuous delivery, and computer science, and are looking for a career opportunity to grow and leverage those skills to the fullest while working on cutting edge technologies Ten Mile Square is the place to be!

Overview

Ten Mile Square is looking for a talented Software Engineer in Test (SDET) who is passionate about technology to join our growing team of product, technology, and software professionals. The initial assignment for the new position is to develop a loan origination system for a financial services enterprise. The successful candidate will work with highly experienced team leads and have an opportunity to learn new technologies, while refining fundamental skills.

Salary (Base + Standard Bonus at plan): $149,500 ($130K + $19.5K).

Job Responsibilities
• Lead the test automation efforts for a loan origination system using Node, Apollo GraphQL, Angular, Camunda, and a suite of AWS components including but not limited to EKS, Lambda, S3, MSK, and Aurora.
• Collaborate with SDETs in the organization.
• Design test plans for the system
• Create automated end-to-end and contract tests
• Create a performance testing framework and run performance tests on the system being developed
• Direct junior test engineers in their automated and manual testing efforts
• Work with the product team to determine what constitutes an effectively tested system
• Contribute as member of an Agile team and promote Agile practices
• Proactively collaborate with the Ten Mile team on development and knowledge sharing
• Represent yourself and Ten Mile Square with integrity, expertise, and value
• Maintain the confidentiality of our clients on

SDET
Westlake, TX (hybrid onsite)

This role is only open to w2 consultants (citizens or GC)

Job 1
TOP SKILLS
• Playwright w/ JavaScript or Typescript
• Must have API testing
• Cypress would be an added benefit, but the team this person will be working on will be primarily using Playwright moving forward with some maintenance of legacy Cypress scripts

Job 2
Required Skills:
• API and Database focused
• API testing w/ Postman, Rest Assured and or Karate - Database testing with SQL
• Jenkins for CI/CD
• Cucumber BDD Framework