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This role is responsible for defining testing strategy, advancing automation maturity, improving software quality processes, and ensuring scalable, reliable, and secure application releases.\nThe Senior QA/Automation Test Engineer serves as a quality advocate and technical leader, partnering with software engineers, architects, product owners, business analysts, DevOps teams, and stakeholders to embed quality throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). The successful candidate will possess deep expertise in test automation, quality engineering, CI/CD integration, and modern testing methodologies while driving continuous improvement and mentoring junior team members.\nThis position supports a large integrated platform with frequent software releases and requires a proactive approach to risk management, defect prevention, automation optimization, and operational excellence.\nKey Responsibilities\nQuality Engineering Leadership\nServe as the lead quality engineering resource for assigned applications, platforms, and initiatives.\nEstablish and maintain comprehensive test strategies aligned with business, technical, security, and compliance requirements.\nDefine quality standards, testing approaches, automation objectives, and release-readiness criteria.\nAdvocate for quality-first and shift-left testing practices across development teams.\nIdentify quality risks early and provide recommendations to reduce production defects and operational impact.\nPromote continuous improvement of testing methodologies, tools, frameworks, and processes.\nTest Automation Strategy & Development\nArchitect, develop, maintain, and enhance enterprise-scale automated testing frameworks.\nDesign reusable automation solutions for functional, API, integration, regression, UI, database, and end-to-end testing.\nLead automation initiatives that improve test coverage, execution efficiency, and release confidence.\nEstablish automation standards, coding practices, and framework governance.\nIntegrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps workflows.\nEvaluate and recommend emerging automation technologies, AI-assisted testing tools, and quality engineering solutions.\nTest Planning & Execution\nDevelop and maintain comprehensive test plans, test cases, test scenarios, and testing documentation.\nReview business, functional, technical, and architecture requirements to ensure adequate test coverage.\nExecute and oversee functional, integration, performance, regression, system, user acceptance, and release validation testing.\nEnsure traceability between requirements, test cases, defects, and production releases.\nValidate application functionality, usability, performance, reliability, and security expectations.\nDefect Management & Root Cause Analysis\nLead defect triage sessions and quality reviews with development teams and stakeholders.\nPerform in-depth root cause analysis of defects, failures, and production incidents.\nIdentify recurring quality challenges and recommend preventive solutions.\nEstablish defect metrics and reporting that drive actionable improvements.\nVerify corrective actions and ensure adequate regression coverage.\nAgile & DevSecOps Collaboration\nParticipate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, architecture discussions, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.\nCollaborate with developers to ensure testability of system designs and requirements.\nSupport continuous integration and continuous delivery practices through automated validation gates.\nPartner with DevOps teams to improve deployment quality, release automation, and environment stability.\nContribute to secure software delivery through automated validation and security-focused testing.\nMentorship & Technical Leadership\nMentor and coach junior and mid-level QA engineers and automation specialists.\nConduct peer reviews of test cases, automation scripts, and quality artifacts.\nEstablish quality engineering best practices and promote knowledge sharing throughout the organization.\nLead process improvement initiatives and champion innovation within the QA Serve as a trusted advisor on software quality, testing strategy, and automation approaches.\nPerformance Expectations\nDelivery Excellence\nConsistently deliver testing activities that align with sprint, release, and program objectives.\nSupport high-quality releases with minimal production-impacting defects.\nProactively identify and mitigate quality risks before deployment.\nAutomation Leadership\nContinuously expand and improve automated test coverage across applications and platforms.\nReduce manual testing effort through scalable and maintainable automation solutions.\nImprove execution speed, reliability, and reporting of automated test suites.\nQuality Improvement\nDrive measurable reductions in defect leakage and production incidents.\nImprove overall software quality metrics through proactive quality engineering practices.\nEstablish repeatable, efficient testing processes across teams.\nTechnical Excellence\nMaintain modern automation frameworks and testing architectures.\nEnsure automation assets remain maintainable, reusable, and scalable.\nDemonstrate expertise in enterprise testing disciplines and emerging technologies.\nCollaboration & Influence\nEffectively communicate testing status, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to technical and business stakeholders.\nBuild strong collaborative relationships with engineering, product, architecture, and operations teams.\nMentor team members and contribute to organizational quality maturity.\nWhat You Will Need:\nEducation\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related technical discipline.\nEquivalent combination of education and FOUR (4) years relevant experience may be considered in leu of degree. \nAdditional Requirements\nU.S. Citizenship required.\nExceptional analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills.\nAbility to effectively influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nProven ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.\nExperience\nSEVEN (7) years of professional experience in Software Quality Assurance, Test Automation, or Quality Engineering.\nMinimum FIVE (5) years designing and implementing automated testing frameworks and solutions.\nExperience leading testing efforts on large-scale enterprise applications.\nExperience operating within Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or comparable delivery frameworks.\nExperience supporting CI/CD and DevSecOps environments.\nTechnical Expertise\nDemonstrated expertise in:\nTest automation architecture and framework design.\nFunctional, integration, regression, system, API, database, and end-to-end testing.\nQuality engineering methodologies and best practices.\nDefect lifecycle management and root cause analysis.\nTest strategy development and risk-based testing.\nContinuous integration and continuous testing practices.\nEnterprise SDLC processes and release management.\nSoftware quality metrics, reporting, and test governance.\nProgramming & Automation Skills\nStrong experience with:\nJava (preferred) or equivalent object-oriented programming languages.\nAutomation framework development and maintenance.\nTestNG, Junit, Nunit, Selenium, Katalon, or equivalent testing technologies.\nSQL and database validation techniques.\nSource control platforms such as Git.\nTools & Technologies\nExperience with several of the following:\nSelenium,Katalon Studio, Jenkins, TestNG, JUnit / NUnit, JMeter, Postman, REST Assured,SonarQube,Jira,Azure DevOps,GitHub Actions, Datado, Splunk,Dynatrace\nWhat Would Be Nice To Have:\nAdvanced Automation & Modern Testing\nExperience building automation frameworks from the ground up.\nExperience implementing Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) using Cucumber or SpecFlow.\nExperience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) environments.\nKnowledge of contract testing and service virtualization.\nExperience with intelligent and AI-assisted testing platforms.\nCloud & Modern Architecture\nExperience testing cloud-native solutions hosted in Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.\nExperience with containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.\nKnowledge of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices.\nExperience validating serverless and API-first applications.\nDevSecOps & Security\nExperience integrating automated testing into enterprise CI/CD pipelines.\nUnderstanding of DevSecOps principles and secure SDLC methodologies.\nExperience supporting automated security, vulnerability, and compliance testing.\nFamiliarity with OWASP principles and application security testing.\nPerformance & Reliability Engineering\nExperience conducting load, stress, scalability, and performance testing.\nExperience leveraging observability and monitoring platforms.\nFamiliarity with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts.\nExperience establishing performance baselines and service-level objectives (SLOs).\nBusiness Domain Knowledge\nInsurance industry experience.\nUnderstanding of customer experience (CX) and digital product quality principles.\nProfessional Certifications\nISTQB Advanced Test Automation Engineer\nISTQB Advanced Test Manager\nCertified Agile Tester (CAT)\nSAFe Agilist or SAFe Practitioner\nCertified Scrum Master (CSM)\nMicrosoft Azure Fundamentals or Azure DevOps certifications\nAWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or equivalent cloud certification\nThe annual salary range for this position is $130,000.00-$216,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. What We Offer:\nGuidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.\nBenefits include:\nMedical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance\n\nPersonal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays\n\nParental Leave\n\n401(k) Retirement Plan\n\nGroup Term Life and Travel Assistance\n\nVoluntary Life and AD&D Insurance\n\nHealth Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts\n\nTransit and Parking Commuter Benefits\n\nShort-Term & Long-Term Disability\n\nTuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities\n\nEmployee Referral Program\n\nCorporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach\n\nCare.com annual membership\n\nEmployee Assistance Program\n\nSupplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)\n\nPosition may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus\n\nAbout Guidehouse\nGuidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer-Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.\nGuidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.\nIf you have visited our website for information about employment opportunities, or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Guidehouse Recruiting at 1-571-633-1711 or via email at . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodation.\nAll communication regarding recruitment for a Guidehouse position will be sent from Guidehouse email domains inc...","description_format":"text","description_chars":13148,"description_truncated":true,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Parental leave","Retirement plans","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Digital Government","IT Consulting & Digital Transformation","Management Consulting"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-08T14:03:42Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 24 · green card filings: 14","filings_12m":24,"filings_prev_12m":23,"green_card_filings_12m":14,"median_offered_wage_usd":132500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-03T21:08:04+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":1}],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":22,"reasons":["conf:3","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-10T05:45:15Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":216000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/guidehouse-senior-qaautomation-test-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/guidehouse-senior-qaautomation-test-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-11T21:39:36Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":10705,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-12T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4179},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4179"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fguidehouse-senior-qaautomation-test-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fguidehouse-senior-qaautomation-test-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fguidehouse-senior-qaautomation-test-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/guidehouse-senior-qaautomation-test-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fguidehouse-senior-qaautomation-test-engineer"}]}