Senior Functional and Automation Tester
Location: Washington, DC (Remote)
Duration: 12 months
Seeking for an Senior Functional and Automation Tester to support the quality, reliability, security, and performance of enterprise applications and cloud-based services. This role will focus on functional and automated testing of Java-based backend services, RESTful APIs, GCP-hosted applications, AI-enabled solutions, and container/serverless environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform functional, integration, regression, API, and automated testing of enterprise applications and backend services.
- Test and validate Java-based backend applications and services.
- Design, develop, execute, and maintain functional and automated test scenarios.
- Perform comprehensive testing of RESTful APIs, including requests, responses, payloads, error handling, and service integrations.
- Validate API authentication and authorization functionality.
- Test applications and services deployed on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Validate serverless and container-based application environments.
- Support testing of applications integrating AI capabilities and AI services.
- Evaluate AI-enabled functionality and support basic monitoring and validation of AI outputs.
- Validate secure engineering requirements, including least-privilege access, service accounts, secrets management, encryption in transit and at rest, and audit logging.
- Support automated testing within CI/CD pipelines and Git-based development workflows.
- Troubleshoot application and cloud-related defects using logs, metrics, monitoring, and observability tools.
- Participate in defect identification, triage, root-cause analysis, retesting, and regression validation.
- Support performance troubleshooting and production issue resolution.
- Work closely with Engineering, QA, DevOps, Product, and Security stakeholders to resolve technical and quality issues.
Required Qualifications:
- 5–10 years of experience in technology, software development, software testing, or related technical environments.
- Strong experience testing or working with Java-based backend services and APIs.
- Strong understanding of functional and automation testing concepts.
- Hands-on experience with applications running on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Experience with serverless and/or container-based architectures.
- Strong experience testing RESTful APIs and service integrations.
- Knowledge of API authentication and authorization patterns.
- Experience working with applications that integrate AI capabilities or AI services.
- Familiarity with AI evaluation and monitoring concepts.
- Knowledge of secure engineering practices, including least privilege, service accounts, secrets management, encryption, and audit logging.
- Familiarity with CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and Git-based workflows.