Automation Test Engineer
Job Location:
Chantilly, VA - USA
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Job Summary
At Two Six Technologies we build deploy and implement innovative products that solve the worlds most complex challenges today. Through unrivaled collaboration and unwavering trust we push the boundaries of whats possible to empower our team and support our customers in building a safer global future.
Two Six Technologies is building our team and looking for an experienced Automation Tester to support a new opportunity. This role will be primarily responsible for developing and maintaining automated end-to-end integration and performance tests.
Responsibilities Include:
- Performs software product testing and investigates possible causes of problems
- Performs manual testing as stop-gap for automated testing
- Develops functional end-to-end regression and performance tests in automated test environments
- Detects and writes software bug reports and feature requests
- Understands reproduces troubleshoots product defects and works with developers to determine the best resolution
- Assists in the planning and implementation of testing new features
What you will need:
- 2-5 years of professional software testing experience
- Strong proficiency in automated testing frameworks and methodologies
- Proven experience designing and implementing integration test suites
- Experience with REST API testing and validation
- Proficiency with Cypress or similar end-to-end testing frameworks
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline integration for automated tests
- Knowledge of test design patterns and best practices
- Experience with Git version control and collaborative workflows
- Understanding of software development lifecycle and agile methodologies
- Strong analytical and debugging skills
- Excellent written communication for test documentation and defect reporting
- Experience working collaboratively with development teams
Nice to haves:
- Strong programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript
- Experience testing microservice architectures
- Familiarity with additional testing frameworks (Playwright Selenium Jest Mocha)
- Experience with API testing tools (Postman REST Assured Supertest)
- Knowledge of performance and load testing tools (k6 JMeter Gatling)
- Experience with contract testing (Pact or similar)
- Familiarity with testing in containerized environments (Docker Kubernetes)
- Experience with test data management and mocking strategies
- Knowledge of accessibility testing (WCAG compliance axe-core)
- Experience with visual regression tools
- Familiarity with backend technologies (go Python)
- Understanding of security testing principles
- Experience with test reporting and metrics dashboards
- Knowledge of behavior-driven development (BDD) frameworks (Cucumber SpecFlow)
- Experience mentoring junior test engineers
- Familiarity with cloud test platforms (AWS/C2S)
Security Clearance:
- Active TS/SCI w. Polygraph
Two Six Technologies is committed to providing competitive and comprehensive compensation packages that reflect the value we place on our employees and their contributions. We believe in rewarding skills experience and performance. Our offerings include but are not limited to medical dental and vision insurance life and disability insurance retirement benefits paid leave tuition assistance and professional development.
The projected salary range listed for this position is annualized. This is a general guideline and not a guarantee of salary. Salary is one component of our total compensation package and the specific salary offered is determined by various factors including but not limited to education experience knowledge skills geographic location as well as contract specific affordability and organizational requirements.
Salary Range
$145037 - $217555 USD
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