Senior Functional and Automation Tester :: Washington, DC (Remote)

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.