Automation Test Engineer

Why Karsun?

Join Karsun Solutions to grow your career with the company transforming possible for the US Government.

At Karsun, collaboration drives our community. We're committed to building an environment where team members from diverse backgrounds can innovate, learn and grow with us. Here at Karsun, the only limit to your potential is the limit of your curiosity.

Join Team Karsun, and Find Your Next!

Summary

Innovate, Grow and Do Extraordinary "Together", is at the core of everything we do at Karsun!

At Karsun we defy assumptions and enable transformation as IT modernization experts. Our people and client-first focus, innovation and performance driven culture empowers and encourages our employees with the autonomy to innovate, and be accountable to take ownership and seek advancement opportunities for personal growth.

The Karsun team is responsible for new application development, maintenance, enhancement, and operation. The Karsun software development team is responsible for the software design and implementation of replacement and modernization of existing legacy applications.

What You'll Do:

• Design and develop System Test Automation Scripts using Selenium, Protractor, Jasmin, Cucumber, or and equivalent tools
• Experience in development using java and javascript languages
• Support Test Automation Solution Planning and Estimation. Analyze current architecture and test platforms to formulate a vision for growth and expansion.
• Perform detailed test designs using sound software test engineering principals in the context of test automation platforms and integration across distributed systems
• Collaboratively elaborate requirements to enable Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) with BAs and developers
• Perform tasks required for automated test implementation including review acceptance criteria (Gherkin scripts), create integration/regression test scenarios, test cases, implement test data management strategy, and generate required reports.
• Improve existing test automation frameworks (i.e. make them faster, more flexible and easier to use). Utilize parallel processing or grid systems to speed up the tests
• Gather non-functional performance requirements, analyze and strategize the performance test approach
• Build performance testing frameworks that can be leveraged by development teams and QA teams to do their performance testing
• Hands-on script development using JMeter or Gatling or other open source tools
• Measure various aspect of the system performance, including throughput, response times, resource usage such as CPU, memory, thread utilization and IO statistics.
• Ability to work closely with Application Development and DevOps teams to identify, troubleshoot and debug performance issues
• Define and establish test metrics to measure not just product quality, but quality of testing and feedback to engineers

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar discipline
• Strong programming/scripting experience and passion for testing
• Minimum 3+ years of experience with either Java or TypeScript.
• Minimum of 4 years' experience in Test Automation including planning, assessments, script development & maintenance preferably in cloud environment.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in manual functional and regression testing and preparing relevant test cases
• Minimum of 4 years demonstrated experience in one or more of the following testing toolsets/frameworks: Selenium Grid/WebDriver, Protractor/Jasmin, Cucumber/Gherkin, jUnit, TestNG, Github/Bitbucket, JMeter, Gatling, New Relic or dynaTrace etc
• Experience working with databases and various data formats and related technologies for testing
• Minimum of 4 years of demonstrated experience in one or more of the following: Java, Groovy, JavaScript, Eclipse, IntelliJ, XML, JSON
• Experience in Agile and Scrum development methodologies
• Experience in testing UI/UX best practices and 508 compliance
• Knowledge in management tools such as JIRA Platform, Serena Business Manager, and/or HP Quality Center (QC)
• Proven hands-on experience building and maintaining automation suites using Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium.
• Experience or strong interest in AI-assisted testing and intelligent test design
• Experience implementing behavior-driven development workflows using Cucumber.
• Strong shift-left testing mindset with the ability to identify issues early in the development lifecycle
• Proven experience in exploratory and negative-path testing to uncover edge cases and failure scenarios
• Ability to review code and system designs from a quality, testability, and risk perspective
• Skilled at building robust and resilient automation that goes beyond happy-path validation
• Strong analytical skills to identify test gaps, analyze failures, and detect risk patterns
• Ability to work closely with developers to debug, isolate, and resolve complex issues
• Focus on defect prevention and continuous improvement in modern QA practices
• Strong written and communication skills required
• Must be a self-starter/self-directed member of the team

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience with Continuous Integration, including one or more of the following build/deploy/version control tools: Jenkins, Maven, Bamboo, uBuild / uDeploy, Grunt
• Experience in all or some of the following programming platform: Linux Bash Scripting, Ruby, Python, PHP or Perl
  JavaScript frameworks in HTML5/CSS3 context (AngularJS, Angular, jQuer, D3), RESTful APIs /JSON, Mobile development
• Experience in developing in Cloud environment
• Experience in API automation
• Knowledge of SOA, Cloud and multi-tenant architectures