Senior Automation Engineer (Remote Opportunity)

Location: 100% remote within the continental United States, with travel to the Washington, DC metropolitan area as needed for onsite meetings, program activities, and customer requirements.

Salary: $140,000 annually, plus eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus of up to 5%.

Company

hirify.global supports a large federal government healthcare modernization project involving U.S. Census Bureau systems.

What you will do

• Establish enterprise testing standards, procedures, test plans, test cases, acceptance criteria, and requirements traceability practices.
• Design functional, integration, system, regression, performance, user acceptance, negative, boundary, and edge-case test coverage.
• Develop automated test suites, validation frameworks, CI/CD quality gates, and continuous-testing capabilities.
• Evaluate AI-assisted techniques for test generation, coverage analysis, synthetic test data, regression testing, defect analysis, and quality assurance.
• Lead defect triage, root-cause analysis, release-readiness assessments, test documentation, and quality-control activities.
• Collaborate with government stakeholders, program managers, engineers, architects, product owners, cybersecurity teams, and contractors.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience, with at least five years of experience leading testing for complex software applications.
• Extensive hands-on experience with test-automation frameworks, testing tools, defect-management platforms, and automated validation solutions.
• Experience integrating automated testing, continuous testing, and quality gates into Agile and DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience using AI-assisted testing techniques for test generation, automation development, regression testing, coverage analysis, or defect investigation.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and problem-solving skills, with excellent written and verbal communication.
• U.S. citizenship is required; selected candidates must pass a background check and be able to obtain and maintain a Government/Public Trust clearance when required.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting U.S. Census Bureau systems, decennial census operations, census data platforms, or federal modernization initiatives.
• Experience with AI-powered testing platforms, autonomous or semi-autonomous testing workflows, synthetic test data, and automated defect triage.
• Experience with accessibility, usability, performance, security, cloud-native, or enterprise data-system testing.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work opportunity with occasional travel to the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Paid time off and federal holidays.
• Corporate laptop and training opportunities.
• Visa sponsorship is not available.