Platform Engineer/ Automation Tester

Type of Requisition:
Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
None Public Trust/Other Required:
None
Job Family:
Professional Engineering Job Qualifications:
Skills:
Automated Testing, Automation Frameworks, Automation Technology Certifications:
None Experience:
5 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required:
No
Job Description:

GDIT has an opportunity for a dynamic and talented platform engineer / automation test engineer to join our team supporting the Administrative Office of the US Courts (AOUSC) Case Management Systems Office (CMSO) in its modernization effort for one of its mission-critical applications that is used by all U.S. district and appellate courts’ staff members and external stakeholders. Over 59 million cases are managed on current systems with more than 1 million unique users. CMSO has a mature agile practice using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and supports a broad range of complex business systems which are instrumental to the AOUSC mission.

The senior automation tester will have following responsibilities:

- Demonstrated experience guiding junior or mid‑level testers, including mentoring, code reviews, and contributing to automation strategy within Agile teams.

- Proven ability to take ownership of automation initiatives, lead framework enhancements, and influence testing direction across distributed teams.

- Evaluate and understand system requirements and capabilities for test automation

- Setup and configure test automation framework in the cloud environment

- Facilitate continuous development and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline

- Work with manual testers to ensure that automation prioritized to get maximum value

- Design, develop and run automated test scripts in the cloud

- Comply with established version control and coding standards

- Developing test procedures to validate and verify requirements and capabilities

- Configure test environments and test data set

- Understanding of software lifecycle management skills related to application development tasks and planning testing cycles

- Ability to apply in-depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle in order to help anticipate complexities in the system

- Strong oral and written communication skills

- Experience with modern web client technologies and the associated front-end to backend interactions

- Developing/testing software using an Agile/Scrum methodology

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or other related scientific or technical discipline

- 5+ years of experience developing automated test scripts on ReactJS and NodeJS Nodejs with Selenium, Playwright, jest, mocha, chai etc

- 5+ years of experience in setup and configurion test automation framework in the cloud environment (AWS / Azure).

- Experience testing API’s though gateway and cloud services

- Expert knowledge in industry standards cloud based test automation frameworks

- Familiarity with standard concepts, practices, and procedures of cloud technology, including Software as Service (SaaS), Platform as Service (PaaS), or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

- Ability to independently setup and configure test automation framework in cloud (Azure or AWS)

- Demonstrated experience in implementing DevOps methodologies, including CI/CD practices using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps

- Experienced in testing containerized applications utilizing docker, k8s, Openshift etc.

- Managing and executing tests using NUnit and TestNG

- Experience in developing test plans/procedures, expected outcomes, and verification statements

- Comprehensive understanding of Cloud, Agile & DevSecOps methodology and culture

- Working knowledge of Source Version Control and Build/Release tools and methodologies. Working knowledge of Software Build process

- Excellent written and oral communication skills and ability to work with people