Senior Functional and Automated Tester

Type of Requisition:

Pipeline

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

MBI (T2)

Job Family:

Professional Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Automated Testing, Continuous Delivery

Certifications:

None

Experience:

8 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

The Senior Functional and Automated Tester plans, designs, and executes functional and automated testing for modern applications, with a focus on quality, security, performance, and operational readiness. This role works closely with product, development, DevSecOps, and stakeholders to ensure solutions meet business requirements and are released with confidence. The tester leads test strategy and automation approaches, drives defect prevention through early engagement, and helps establish consistent testing standards across teams and projects.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT:

• Lead or contribute to project planning by identifying testing scope, risks, environment needs, test data requirements, and tooling to support delivery timelines.
• Translate business and technical requirements into test strategies, test plans, and detailed test cases, covering functional, integration, regression, performance, and security-related validation.
• Design and build automated tests (unit, API, integration, and user interface) using a disciplined approach that supports repeatable and reliable execution within a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.
• Perform hands-on functional testing of workflows, edge cases, data validations, and error handling; verify that solutions meet user and operational expectations.
• Validate event/message-based services and distributed workflows, including systems that use message queues such as Apache Kafka, ensuring correct processing, resiliency, and traceability.
• Test and validate API-centric and cloud-friendly designs (microservices, serverless applications), including backward compatibility, contract expectations, and integration with internal and external partners.
• Partner with DevSecOps and engineering teams to ensure consistent application of development standards, procedures, and processes, including secure development expectations.
• Support system compatibility and environment readiness by coordinating with technical teams on test environments, deployments, configuration changes, and release readiness.
• Apply data security procedures in testing activities; identify potential data security risks and ensure defects and risks are documented, escalated, and tracked through resolution.
• Produce and maintain clear testing documentation (test evidence, defect reports, dashboards, charts/diagrams, and runbooks as needed) suitable for leadership and audit reviews.
• Drive defect triage and root-cause analysis with developers and stakeholders; verify fixes and help implement preventative quality controls.
• Promote strong operational practices including observability validation (logging, metrics, tracing), performance baselines, and readiness checks.
• Use AI-assisted development and testing workflows (where approved) to accelerate test creation, analysis, and triage while maintaining quality and security expectations.
• Perform other job-related duties assigned to support delivery and operational goals.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED
Bring your expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field from an accredited College/University
• Alternative Path: If the candidate does not possess a relevant four-year degree, an additional four years of relevant work experience will be required.

Required Experience:

• Minimum 8 years of experience in software testing, quality engineering, or software development with significant testing/automation responsibilities.
• Demonstrated experience owning test strategy and automation for complex, distributed, or cloud-based systems.
• Strong experience leading and executing functional testing and test automation across the software development lifecycle.
• Proven ability to define and implement an effective test strategy for distributed/cloud applications, including regression planning and release readiness.
• Experience with automated testing tools for unit, API, and user interface testing; familiarity with test-driven development (TDD) concepts and automation-first approaches.
• Experience working in CI/CD pipeline environments using source code management and build/deployment tooling (for example: GitLab, Jenkins) within a DevSecOps/SecDevOps culture.
• Working knowledge of secure coding and secure engineering expectations, including risk identification and validation of security controls.
• Experience validating message/event-driven systems, including Kafka-based workflows and asynchronous processing behaviors.
• Experience testing API-centric architectures such as microservices and serverless applications, including contract validation and integration testing.
• Cloud and data pipeline familiarity, including one or more of the following: Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Redis.
• Strong troubleshooting skills, including analyzing logs/metrics/traces, isolating failures across components, and supporting defect triage.
• Solid technical fluency in one or more languages used for test automation and validation, such as Java, Python, SQL, and/or JavaScript (and familiarity with modern web stacks such as React is a plus).
• Knowledge of performance and reliability concepts, including performance tuning, multi-threading awareness, and validation of high observability principles.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to explain quality risks and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Experience working in Agile delivery teams and applying Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices.
• Familiarity with change/configuration management and lifecycle tooling (for example: VersionOne, ServiceNow) and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) practices.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (for example: Docker, Kubernetes), including security and environment considerations.
• Experience with Kubernetes security practices and testing in containerized production-like environments.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development/testing tools such as OpenCode, Claude Code, and Gemini Vertex AI to improve efficiency in test creation and analysis (within approved governance).
• Experience producing test evidence and documentation suitable for audit or compliance reviews.

Security Clearance Level:

• This role will require you to obtain and maintain a Public Trust and will require you to provide onsite fingerprinting at a designated facility.  This investigation may review personal and criminal behavior, financial conduct, foreign influence, as well as other adjudications.
• This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years.

Location:

• Remote

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, competitive pay and paid time off
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

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The likely salary range for this position is $96,569 - $130,651. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

 

Our Identity Verification Process:

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

About Our Work:

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.

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