Senior Automation Test Engineer

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $120k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

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Itility

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2006

💼 Consulting

🏢 Enterprise

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Consulting • Enterprise • Artificial Intelligence

Itility is a Netherlands-headquartered technology consulting and engineering firm that helps industrial customers (notably agrifood, energy, and manufacturing) bridge Big Tech to measurable business value. Its services include business transformation, (Gen) AI and AI engineering, software and data platform development, cloud/IT foundation and managed services, and security. Itility positions itself as a hands-on tech partner and consulting-engineer team delivering cloud infrastructure, data-driven efficiency and sustainability improvements for enterprise customers.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain test plans, strategies, suites, artifacts, and cases for manual and automated testing • Define testing scope, objectives, entry/exit criteria, and risk-based approaches for releases and sprints • Estimate testing effort for sprint planning, release scheduling, and resource forecasting • Maintain traceability between requirements, test cases, and defects using JIRA and Confluence • Improve test documentation, templates, and standards • Execute manual and automated functional, regression, integration, system, and user acceptance testing • Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts and frameworks for web and mobile applications • Perform API, performance, and load testing • Conduct security-focused testing aligned with DISA STIGs, RMF requirements, and DoD application security standards • Use AWS knowledge to shape cloud-native test strategies and validate AWS-hosted application behavior • Participate in Agile ceremonies including planning, refinement, standups, reviews, and retrospectives • Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines • Collaborate with developers, business analysts, and product owners to clarify acceptance criteria and identify testable requirements • Provide testing input during requirements analysis and design reviews • Communicate quality risks, testing status, technical findings, and release readiness • Identify, document, track, and verify defects through closure • Use JIRA to prioritize, assign, and monitor defects • Produce reports, summaries, and metrics dashboards for program leadership and Government stakeholders • Analyze defect trends and test metrics to identify quality risks and recommend improvements • Support release readiness decisions by communicating defect severity, impact, mitigation status, and residual risk

🎯 Requirements

• US Citizenship required • Active Secret clearance required • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related field preferred; equivalent education, certifications, and directly relevant experience may be substituted • 8140 IAT Level II Certification (Option for post placement compliance) • 8+ years of professional software testing experience • 5+ years of automated scripting experience using Java and Selenium • Working knowledge of automation frameworks such as BDD or TestNG and reporting tools such as Cucumber • Familiarity with Jenkins and AWS environments • 2+ years of experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter • 2+ years of REST API testing experience using tools such as POSTMAN • Knowledge of SQL for validating database objects • Minimum of 2+ years on an Agile software development team • Preferred: ISTQB Certified Tester – Foundation Level (CTFL) • Preferred: direct experience supporting DoD enterprise mission applications • Preferred: experience with performance and load testing tools such as JMeter, Gatling, or equivalent • Preferred: background in security testing practices, including OWASP methodologies and vulnerability validation • Preferred: experience with BDD frameworks such as Cucumber or SpecFlow • Preferred: familiarity with test management platforms such as Zephyr or TestRail • Ability to sit or stand for extended periods and perform computer-based work using standard office equipment • Requires frequent verbal communication, active listening, and visual acuity • Must follow site-specific safety, security, and dress standards

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote position • Occasional travel to client sites, at a minimum of once per quarter • Professional work supporting mission-focused enterprise modernization and national defense readiness • Equal employment opportunity and inclusive, non-discriminatory work environment

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