Automated Test Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 17 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High value due to competitive salary range, opportunities for meaningful work in a mission-driven environment, and a focus on innovation.
- Salary: $90,000 - $130,000/year
- Involvement in critical federal projects
- Supportive remote work culture
Pros
- Attractive salary range ($90,000 - $130,000/year)
- Chance to work on mission-critical projects in various sectors
- Focus on a positive and supportive work culture
Cons
- High competition due to the lucrative nature of the role
- Potential stress from high client expectations
- Security clearance requirement may limit candidate pool
Who it's for
Mid to Senior-level • Remote work, flexible hours
Good fit
- Senior engineers with strong automation expertise
- Individuals motivated by mission-driven work
- Candidates experienced in an Agile DevSecOps setup
Not recommended for
- Entry-level engineers without relevant experience
- Those not interested in the federal contracting sector
- Individuals who prefer in-office only roles
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Overview
Are you inquisitive? Thorough? Diplomatic? Ever worked as part of a program that is Agile? Are you interested in being an agent of change on a team committed to achieving client-focused, mission-driven excellence?
Steampunk is looking for you to join our team as a Automated Test Engineer. You'll implement automation for increased efficiency and provide hands-on testing and QA expertise in mission critical work across our client base.
Contributions
As a Automated Test Engineer, you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice delivering quality assurance services to support application, cloud and data systems development. Responsibilities include:
- Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
- Meet with product design team to determine testing parameters
- Write test plans, create test cases, test procedures, bug reports, final QA reports for products
- Manage test data architecture definition and requests
- Troubleshoot errors and streamline the test procedures
- Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results, including three or more of the following:
- Data validation testing
- Functional testing
- Performance and load testing
- Usability testing
- Accessibility (508) testing
- Establishing automated testing tools and infrastructure for test automation
- Provide validation testing of different system and data sets for cloud migrations
- Develop automated testing scripts considering parallelization and idempotency
- Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes
- Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
- Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
- Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
- Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize testing software systems
- Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to DevSecOps processes and tools
- Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided
- Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other DevSecOps team members
- Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members
Qualifications
Required:
- Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
- BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience
- 5 Years of experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
- 5 Years of experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
- 5 Years of application DevSecOps experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment
- Experience utilizing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes
- 5 Years of experience implementing test automation, using tools such as Selenium, Appium, Soap UI, RestAssured, Postman
- Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD Pipelines
- Experience with performance and load testing
- Experience in one or more cloud computing environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Preferred:
- Certifications:
- CAST (Certified Associate in Software Testing)
- International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certification
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills
- Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
About steampunk
Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $90,000 to $130,000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.
Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.
