Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 20, 2026. First seen by Alion on Aug 28, 2026.
Compensation Grade:
11BASIC PURPOSE:
Defines, creates, and maintains automated test scripts for quality assurance testing.ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Designs, implements, and maintains automated test scripts, strategies, and test plans for regression and environment testing.
Develops custom function/sub-routine libraries to support automated testing solutions.
Develops complex SQL queries to create backend test scripts.
Develops, enhances, and documents automated enterprise testing methodology. Designs a solid automation framework where test scripts are reusable and easily maintained.
Experience accessing data from external sources, like Excel, for Data Driven Testing.
Review and improves testing process and implementation.Assists in estimating testing efforts and providing status updates.
Build and maintain reusable test data sets
Mentors team in automation best practices and assists manual testers with running automated tests as needed.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES:
Ability to write and execute manual quality assurance test cases is required.
Actively participate in story refinement for comprehensive test case development.
Ability to create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.
Develop and execute in-sprint automation for component, integration and end-to-end testing.
Demonstrated understanding of software development processes, and ability to apply critical thinking and investigation skills to identify root causes of software and system problems.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
A bachelor’s degree in computer science or management information systems, and a minimum of 4-years functional automation experience with test automation tools such as Selenium WebDriver, TestNG using Java and Playwright using JavaScript/typescript or the equivalent combination of education and experience is necessary.
Experience using Maven, Eclipse, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Node, Vscode, and JIRA.
Four to six years’ experience working on a quality assurance team.
Four to six years’ experience using Selenium, SQL and Java.
And/or two to three years’ experience using Playwright, JavaScript/typescript.
Work Location: This individual must reside within commuting distance from our Atlanta, GA office. This position may not be filled in New Jersey, either in-person or remotely.
Work Schedule: Onsite with an opportunity to work remote partially.
Visa Sponsorship: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.