Test Engineer

*NOT OPEN TO C2C OR W2 REFERRALS AT THIS TIME*

Position: Test Engineer

Location: Arlington, VA (occasional onsite as needed, need to be local to the DMV)

Introduction : The Temporary Test Engineer is a member of the IT/QA Division, responsible for testing the next generation of proprietary internal testing tool and a Web‐based interface enabling states to independently trigger unsolicited transactions on their schedule

Key responsibilities include:

• Create, execute, and maintain test cases, and contribute to test plans for the application and their underlying REST services and microservices.
• Conduct functional, system, integration, and regression testing based on business and technical specifications.
• Build and maintain automated test scripts across UI, API/REST, and service layers, and run them within CI/CD pipelines.
• Perform API testing of RESTful services — request/response and schema validation, status codes, and authentication.
• Use existing service-virtualization and mocks to test components in isolation and manage test data (create/modify/reset) so tests are atomic and repeatable.
• Validate data across relational and NoSQL data stores (Azure SQL, Cosmos DB).
• Log, track, and manage defects through resolution using established tracking systems (e.g. Jira, Azure DevOps).
• Communicate issues clearly to technical teams and stakeholders, with steps to reproduce and supporting detail.

Experience & Technical Skills Required:

• 5 years of software quality assurance and testing experience with a solid understanding of the software development lifecycle.
• Hands on experience in writing automation scripts using Selenium or similar automation tools.
• Proficient in testing and reporting on ETL pipelines
• Solid test-design ability — creating and executing test cases and contributing to test plans, including basic edge and negative cases.
• Working knowledge of functional, system, integration, regression, and REST/API testing.
• Working, hands-on knowledge of databases and SQL, including validating data across relational and NoSQL stores (Azure SQL, Cosmos DB).
• Hands-on experience with test management and defect tracking tools (Jira, Azure DevOps/ALM, or similar).
• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks and tools (Selenium, Postman, Playwright, or similar).

Hours: Core 8 hr. workday - Monday-Friday- east coast operating schedule.