Senior Test Software Engineer

Role Overview

As a Senior Test Software Engineer, you will lead the quality engineering architecture and automation strategy for critical civic technology infrastructure. You will move far beyond traditional testing roles to serve as a software quality technical authority—architecting scalable automated test suites, building robust continuous integration workflows, and serving as a team representative in a complex environment with myriad vendors and dozens of stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Establish software quality standards, test architecture guidelines, and defect prevention strategies across delivery streams.

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable end-to-end (E2E) automated UI and API test suites using Playwright and TypeScript across multiple product verticals.

• Design and build automated data generation tools and synthetic applicant profile generators using Python and REST APIs to replace manual data setup processes.

• Author and review comprehensive technical specifications, test strategies, and quality risk assessments for upcoming feature initiatives.

• Construct, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to support quality gates and feature-driven promotion practices.

• Serve as a trusted technical liaison to client leads and external vendor teams, advocating for developer self-service, smooth release gatekeeping, and collaborative troubleshooting.

• Support cloud infrastructure updates using Terraform, embed automated security scanning, and navigate continuous compliance processes in a FedRAMP/Public Trust environment.

Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience developing full-stack applications and tooling using TypeScript and Python.

• Practical experience writing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and leveraging infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.

• Experience designing complex systems that interact with multiple external services, databases, and third-party APIs.

• Proven experience working on cross-functional agile teams, estimating complex engineering tasks, and directly communicating technical updates to client stakeholders.

• Strong diagnostic skills for troubleshooting complex, distributed multi-vendor application failures and microservices.

• Prior experience working on federal government digital service projects or civic tech programs.

• Familiarity with AWS GovCloud environments, FedRAMP compliance standards, and observability tooling.

• Experience implementing synthetic test data generators or complex mock data services for enterprise integrations.