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Quality Assurance Engineer (Automation) - Remote

ICF
Reston, VA Remote Full Time
POSTED ON 7/16/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/14/2026
Description

  • This role is contingent upon a contract award.

ICF is hiring a Quality Assurance Engineer to deliver new test functionality and support existing frameworks. This position requires strong deductive reasoning, attention to detail, persistence, patience, and creativity. The individual will work with our component, integration, internal development teams, and Business Analysts teams to analyze, build and maintain test frameworks and suites across all test phases. The individual also work with our business, development, and testing teams to analyze, build and maintain processes across the organization. 

Responsibilities:

  • Review and analyze business requirements to produce comprehensive, and well-structured test strategy and test cases. 
  • Design and create test conditions and scripts to address business and technical use cases. 
  • Design, Develop and Execute automated scripts using our test automation framework. 
  • Support the automated functional testing by our testing team, focusing on application flow and validation of test results. 
  • Perform manual and automated testing, which may include exploratory, system, regression, compatibility, system, and integration testing. 
  • Work directly with the Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence and Data Engineering teams to ensure all work is thoroughly tested. 
  • Communicate effectively across multiple teams/external vendors (Operations, Quality Service, etc.), as well as different personnel (Developers, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, etc.). 
  • Participate in relevant Agile Ceremonies: Daily Stand-Ups, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives. 
  • Analyze data and application changes and document their impact on the performance automation task (test cases, scripting, scenario execution, etc.). 
  • Ensure the test execution results fulfill the defined test objectives. 
  • Interface directly with the DevOps and Infrastructure teams regarding Functional test environments. 
  • Timely and accurate communication of testing events, daily status, and test execution results, etc. 
  • Develop and maintain automation for both UI and API testing, leveraging tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, PyTest, and Postman.
  • Implement automated regression suites integrated into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar).
  • Collaborate with developers to validate microservices, containerized environments, and AWS-hosted applications.
  • Design performance, load, and reliability test scenarios to validate large-scale data processing and reporting systems.
  • Contribute to code reviews for automated test scripts to ensure maintainability and reusability across teams.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • 5 years of experience with test automation development (eg: Cypress, Ruby, Playwright, JS, Python, Selenium). 
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
  • Must have lived in the US 3 full years out of the last 5 years
  • Must reside in the US, be authorized to work in the US; work must be performed in the US. 

Professional Skills:

  • Ability to design/architect, build, program, test and deploy solutions using an Agile methodology. 
  • Experience testing in Salesforce API's.
  • Working with Salesforce Copado.
  • Ability to optimize code/script using industry best practices and standards. 
  • Ability to work in a dynamic and rapidly evolving environment. 
  • Strong hands-on skills in SQL development; ability to create ad-hoc queries to meet business needs. 
  • Strong self-organization and self-management skills, with emphasis on self-initiation and follow-through. 
  • Demonstrated functional test experience, including test analysis. 
  • Experience working with cloud-native environments (AWS preferred), microservices, and infrastructure-as-code pipelines.
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD practices and integration of automated tests into build pipelines.
  • Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools (e.g., Splunk, CloudWatch, New Relic) to validate releases and production health.
  • Comfortable collaborating across distributed Agile teams to ensure quality is embedded throughout the delivery lifecycle.



Job Location: Remote; however, this position requires that the job be performed in the United States and there will be travel of approximately 10% to a customer site. If you accept this position, you should note that ICF does monitor employee work locations and blocks access from foreign locations/foreign IP addresses and prohibits personal VPN connections.

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Working at ICF

ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider, but we’re not your typical consultants. We combine unmatched expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients solve their most complex challenges, navigate change, and shape the future.

We can only solve the world's toughest challenges by building a workplace that allows everyone to thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer. Together, our employees are empowered to share their expertise and collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information, please read our EEO policy.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Reasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process. To request an accommodation, please email Candidateaccommodation@icf.com and we will be happy to assist. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations. 

Read more about workplace discrimination rights or our benefit offerings which are included in the Transparency in (Benefits) Coverage Act.

Candidate AI Usage Policy

At ICF, we are committed to ensuring a fair interview process for all candidates based on their own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate or assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is not permitted. This policy is in place to maintain the integrity and authenticity of the interview process. 

However, we understand that some candidates may require accommodation that involves the use of AI. If such an accommodation is needed, candidates are instructed to contact us in advance at candidateaccommodation@icf.com. We are dedicated to providing the necessary support to ensure that all candidates have an equal opportunity to succeed.  

Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is:

$81,499.00 - $138,549.00

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