ICF is looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer (Automation) to deliver new test functionality and support existing frameworks. You will work with component, integration, internal development, and Business Analyst teams to analyze, build, and maintain test frameworks across all test phases.

What You'll Do

Review and analyze business requirements to produce comprehensive test strategies and test cases.
Design and create test conditions and scripts to address business and technical use cases.
Design, develop, and execute automated scripts using our test automation framework.
Perform manual and automated testing, including exploratory, system, regression, compatibility, and integration testing.
Work directly with the Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, and Data Engineering teams to ensure all work is thoroughly tested.
Communicate effectively across multiple teams and external vendors.
Participate in Agile ceremonies: Daily Stand-Ups, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
Analyze data and application changes to document their impact on performance automation tasks.
Interface directly with the DevOps and Infrastructure teams regarding Functional test environments.
Develop and maintain automation for both UI and API testing, leveraging tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, PyTest, and Postman.
Implement automated regression suites integrated into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
Collaborate with developers to validate microservices, containerized environments, and AWS-hosted applications.
Design performance, load, and reliability test scenarios for large-scale data processing and reporting systems.
Contribute to code reviews for automated test scripts to ensure maintainability and reusability.

What We're Looking For

Bachelor’s degree OR completion of 6+ weeks of a programming boot camp plus 1+ year of IT-related experience; OR 4 years of relevant industry experience without a formal degree.
3+ years of experience with test automation development (e.g., Cypress, Ruby, Playwright, JS, Python, Selenium).
Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
Must have lived in the US 3 full years out of the last 5 years.
Must reside in the US, be authorized to work in the US; work must be performed in the US.

Nice to Have

Ability to design/architect, build, program, test and deploy solutions using an Agile methodology.
Ability to optimize code/script using industry best practices and standards.
Ability to work in a dynamic and rapidly evolving environment.
Strong hands-on skills in SQL development; ability to create ad-hoc queries to meet business needs.
Strong self-organization and self-management skills, with emphasis on self-initiation and follow-through.
Demonstrated functional test experience, including test analysis.
Experience working with cloud-native environments (AWS preferred), microservices, and infrastructure-as-code pipelines.
Strong understanding of CI/CD practices and integration of automated tests into build pipelines.
Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools (e.g., Splunk, CloudWatch, New Relic) to validate releases and production health.
Comfortable collaborating across distributed Agile teams to ensure quality is embedded throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Technical Stack

Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, PyTest, Postman
SQL
AWS
GitHub Actions, Jenkins
Splunk, CloudWatch, New Relic

Team & Environment

Works with component, integration, internal development, Business Analysts, Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Data Engineering, DevOps, and Infrastructure teams.