# QA Automation Engineer

Overview Ask Sage( BigBearAI company) is seeking a QA Automation Engineer that will translate nuanced product requirements and customer workflows into effective test coverage, build and maintain automation with Playwright, and partner with Product and Engineering to make informed release decisions as the platform evolves. We are looking for an engineer who can reason about complex, nondeterministic AI behavior, design risk-based coverage that reflects real customer impact, and produce automation that engineers trust. The engineer will own the automated coverage and the evidence behind release readiness across browser, application, and backend boundaries, where auditability, security, and government compliance expectations are part of everyday delivery. What you will do Translate requirements into testable outcomes. Understand product goals, customer use cases, and complex feature interactions; identify ambiguities and define acceptance criteria with Product and Engineering. Own automated test coverage. Design, implement, and maintain Playwright tests covering critical user journeys, feature functionality, and regressions, supported by API and integration testing. Develop a risk-bas

- **Id**: 1262993
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/bigbear-ai-qa-automation-engineer>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-25T21:15:56Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T14:34:21Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 45
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6377
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Identity Management, Computer Vision, Decision Intelligence, Defense AI

## Company

- **Id**: 34812
- **Name**: BigBear.ai
- **Domain**: bigbear.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/bigbear-ai-holdings-inc>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: iCIMS

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.167
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 16
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 79000
- **Max usd**: 153000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 338

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Anthropic** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Bedrock** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **CMMC** — Optional: no
- **Defense in Depth** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **FedRAMP** — Optional: no
- **Gemini** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **n8n** — Optional: no
- **NIST AI RMF** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **Playwright** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Power Automate** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Vertex AI** — Optional: no
- **Zapier** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 45

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T21:15:56Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-20T16:09:54Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-21T18:38:45Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 21
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.591
- **P room**: 0.35
- **Age days**: 45
- **Expected fill days**: 16
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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