# Test Engineer Sr Principal

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Annapolis Junction, MD
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $170,000 - $230,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Transform technology into opportunity as a Test Engineer at GDIT. Shape what's next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what's next for your engineering career.

As a Test Engineer Sr Principal, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of a mission critical system. You will work closely with a cross-functional Agile team of software developers, system engineers, and product owners to validate functional enhancements and support the ongoing modernization of authoring and dissemination tools.

**Responsibilities:**

- Test Automation Design & Development: Independently design, develop, and maintain high-quality, scalable automated UI and API test scripts utilizing Playwright.

- Test Execution & Reporting: Execute automated test suites, analyze results, troubleshoot failures, and comprehensively document defects and testing metrics.

- Integration & Delivery: Partner with DevOps and software engineers to integrate automated testing seamlessly into the CI/CD pipeline to ensure continuous quality and rapid feedback.

- Collaboration: Participate actively in Agile ceremonies and work with the team to understand functional requirements and ensure comprehensive test coverage for all new features and bug fixes.

**Requirements:**

- Education: Bachelor's Degree

- Experience: 10+ years of related experience

- Security clearance level: Top Secret//SCI W/ Poly

- US citizenship required

- Proven experience designing, writing, and maintaining automated tests using Playwright

- Proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript for test script development

- Experience testing modern web applications, RESTful microservices, and APIs

- Strong understanding of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes

- Practical experience with Agile software development methodologies and collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence

- Experience with version control systems (Git)

**Benefits:**

- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages

- 401K with company match

- Competitive pay and paid time off

- Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home

- Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

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## Skills

### Required
- Agile Methodology
- Agile Scrum Development
- Automated Testing
- Playwright
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Git
- Jira
- Confluence

### Nice to have
- Experience configuring and integrating automated tests within CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with Cloud-based architecture and deployment (Amazon Web Services)
- Basic understanding of containerization (Docker)
- Familiarity with domain knowledge surrounding government agency reporting and dissemination policies

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