SDET & Test Automation Jobs

Description:

About Us:

eSimplicity is a modern digital services company that partners with government agencies to improve the lives and protect the well-being of all Americans, from veterans and service members to children, families, and seniors. Our engineers, designers, and strategists cut through complexity to create intuitive products and services that equip federal agencies with solutions to courageously transform today for a better tomorrow.

We’re seeking a Software Tester with experience in rapid design and development techniques to respond to customer demands for meeting the challenges of government healthcare directives.

Responsibilities?
• Develops, implements, and maintains quality assurance/configuration management programs in support of a variety of software, hardware, and services.
• Establish standards for life cycle, documentation, development methods, testing, and maintenance.
• Develops and defines major and minor characteristics of quality/ configuration management (including metrics and scoring parameters) and determines requisite quality control/configuration management resources for an actual task order.
• Conducts or participates in formal and informal reviews at predetermined points throughout the system life cycle.
• Serve as liaison between Program Management and other functional groups to resolve issues regarding quality assurance/configuration management.
• Reviews and evaluates software products and services for adherence to government directives, standards, and guidelines.
• May provide daily supervision and direction to support staff.
• Attend requirements gathering meetings to better understand business needs, functional and system requirements
• Produce detailed testing documents, including a testing plan, test cases, test data, and test scripts to automate and rapidly perform testing iteratively.
• Develop testing status reporting tools and methods that will allow stakeholders at various levels to quickly assess the system statu

Washington, District of Columbia 20001 Posted March 18th, 2026

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Job Type: Full Time

Job Category: IT

Job Description

Role: SDET (Backend/API Automation – Java, Rest Assured) – Level II / III

Location: Remote (Preferred: Washington, DC / New York, NY)

FTE only

Job Summary:

We are looking for a highly skilled SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) with strong expertise in backend/API automation testing.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in Java, Rest Assured, and building scalable test automation frameworks for microservices-based applications.

Key Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and maintain API automation frameworks using Java and Rest Assured

Automate test cases for RESTful services and backend systems

Collaborate with developers, QA, and DevOps teams in an Agile environment

Validate data across services, databases, and APIs

Integrate automation suites with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)

Perform test execution, debugging, and root cause analysis

Ensure high test coverage and quality across releases

Required Skills & Experience:

6+ years (Level II) / 9+ years (Level III) in QA Automation / SDET roles

Strong programming skills in Java

Hands-on experience with Rest Assured for API automation

Experience testing RESTful APIs & microservices architecture

Knowledge of TestNG / JUnit, Maven/Gradle

Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.)

Strong understanding of SDLC/STLC and Agile methodologies

Experience with version control tools (Git)

Good to Have:

Experience with BDD frameworks (Cucumber)

Knowledge of Docker / Kubernetes

Exposure to performance testing tools (JMeter, Gatling)

Database validation using SQL

Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Required Skills

JAVA DEVELOPER