Senior Test Automation Engineer

**** Prior exp with Center of Medicaid and Medicare Preferred.

We are seeking a Senior Test Automation Engineer to own and evolve our test automation platform beyond test authoring. The ideal candidate will drive automation framework architecture reliability security CI/CD integration and cross-team enablement helping ensure quality and automation remain on the critical path for software releases.

The role requires strong hands-on experience with Selenium Cucumber Java Maven GitHub CI/CD AWS OpenShift TestRail and Jira along with the ability to design scalable automation solutions and improve the overall software testing lifecycle.

• Own maintain and continuously evolve the enterprise test automation framework including architecture scalability reliability security and maintainability.
• Develop and maintain automated UI and functional tests using Selenium WebDriver Java Cucumber and BDD frameworks.
• Create reusable automation components utilities page objects test libraries and framework capabilities to reduce test duplication and improve execution efficiency.
• Drive automation strategy across teams and ensure automated testing is integrated into the software development and release lifecycle.
• Integrate automated test suites with GitHub repositories and CI/CD pipelines including OpenShift-based deployment and execution environments.
• Implement secure test automation practices including centralized credential and secret management using AWS Secrets Manager.
• Eliminate plaintext credentials and ensure secure runtime retrieval error handling auditing and rotation of automation secrets.
• Strengthen software dependency and supply-chain security by managing Maven dependencies through enterprise repositories such as Nexus.
• Standardize Maven configurations and build settings across developer workstations and CI/CD environments to improve build consistency and repeatability.
• Design automation frameworks capable of supporting multiple product configurations environments and plan-year implementations while minimizing code duplication and branching complexity.
• Develop and maintain Cucumber feature files step definitions hooks runners and reusable BDD components.
• Implement robust test execution strategies for nightly regression smoke integration and release validation testing.
• Design and maintain integrations between automation frameworks and TestRail for automated test case management and results publishing.
• Support bidirectional synchronization between automation TestRail and other test management systems where required.
• Integrate automated testing and reporting with Jira requirements and defect workflows to improve requirements-to-test traceability.
• Automate test execution reporting metrics dashboards and audit-ready quality artifacts.
• Reduce manual reporting and test-management activities through automation and scheduled reporting solutions.
• Analyze automation failures identify root causes and improve framework reliability and test stability.
• Collaborate with developers QA engineers DevOps engineers product owners and other technical teams to resolve quality and release risks.
• Establish automation best practices coding standards design patterns and documentation across QA teams.
• Mentor other automation engineers and provide technical guidance on framework development and automation strategy.
• Continuously identify opportunities to increase automation coverage reduce regression execution time and improve release confidence.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering or a related field or equivalent experience.
• 7 years of software testing and test automation experience.
• Strong hands-on experience developing automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver.
• Strong programming experience with Java.
• Extensive experience with Cucumber / BDD and Gherkin.
• Experience with JUnit and/or TestNG.
• Strong experience with Maven and dependency management.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with Git/GitHub.
• Experience working with OpenShift Kubernetes or containerized CI/CD environments.
• Experience with AWS particularly AWS Secrets Manager or similar cloud-based secret-management solutions.
• Experience with enterprise artifact repositories such as Nexus Repository or Artifactory.
• Experience with TestRail Jira or similar test management and issue-tracking platforms.
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies regression testing test strategy and automation architecture.
• Experience troubleshooting failed automation executions and improving test stability and reliability.

• Experience designing or owning an enterprise-scale automation framework.
• Experience with REST/API automation and tools such as REST Assured.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Experience with AWS services beyond Secrets Manager.
• Experience implementing automated test reporting and dashboards.
• Experience with Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI or similar CI/CD platforms.
• Understanding of application security and software supply-chain security.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum development environments.
• Experience working with regulated enterprise or highly controlled environments.

Automation: Selenium WebDriver Cucumber BDD JUnit TestNG Test Automation Frameworks
Programming: Java OOP Design Patterns
Build & Dependency Management: Maven Nexus Artifact Management
CI/CD: GitHub Jenkins/GitHub Actions OpenShift Kubernetes
Cloud/Security: AWS AWS Secrets Manager Secure Credential Management
Test Management: TestRail Jira Requirements Traceability
Testing: Functional Regression Smoke Integration End-to-End UI Automation
Version Control: Git GitHub
Reporting: Automated Test Reporting Metrics Audit-Ready Test Artifacts
Methodologies: Agile Scrum BDD Shift-Left Testing