Hybrid role : AWS Test Automation Engineer- Boston MA with Acitive Secret Clearance

Hybrid role : AWS Test Automation Engineer
1 year + option years
Hybrid
Near Boston Preferred, Active Secret Clearance needed
 Education and Years of Experience: Bachelor s Degree and 8+ years or more of experience; additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks supporting AWSbased cloud services, shared services, and platform capabilities.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing across build, deployment, and release stages.
• Develop automated unit, integration, regression, performance, and security tests for cloudnative applications and infrastructure.
• Collaborate with DevOps, platform engineering, and security teams to validate Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments and configuration changes.
• Implement automated validation for containerized workloads and microservices deployed to Kubernetes environments.
• Support testing of AWS shared services including networking, IAM, logging, monitoring, and security tooling.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, and backlog refinement, ensuring test automation aligns with delivery objectives.
• Analyze test results, identify defects and risks, and provide actionable feedback to engineering teams.
• Develop and maintain test documentation, test plans, and automation artifacts in accordance with Cloud One standards.
• Ensure compliance with DoD security controls, STIGs, and DevSecOps best practices throughout the testing lifecycle.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of professional experience in test automation, software testing, or quality engineering.
• Strong experience developing automated tests using Java and/or Python.
• Handson experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar.
• Experience testing applications and services deployed in AWS environments.
• Familiarity with AWS services such as IAM, EC2, VPC, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and related services.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code testing (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience testing containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Agile and DevSecOps practices in a federal or regulated environment.
• Active Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship required.