Lead Test Automation Engineer

Job#: 3038676

Job Description:

Lead Test Automation Engineer

Location: Woodlawn, Maryland (Partial Remote)

 

Role Overview

Our organization is seeking a Lead Test Automation Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse professionals supporting mission critical modernization efforts. The ideal candidate will lead the design and implementation of advanced automated testing frameworks to validate Medicare claims processing during a large-scale dual run modernization initiative. This role plays a pivotal part in ensuring accuracy, reliability, and seamless integration between legacy systems and modern platforms.

 

Key Responsibilities
  • Leading the design, development, and implementation of automated test frameworks supporting dual-run validation of Medicare claims processing.
  • Creating automated test suites that compare claims outputs to legacy system results.
  • Designing and maintaining continuous testing pipelines integrated into CI/CD environments.
  • Establishing automated test coverage across functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end scenarios.
  • Developing strategies and tooling for automated test data creation using empirical and production-representative datasets.
  • Authoring, maintaining, and governing the project’s Quality Management Plan (QMP).
  • Providing technical leadership and mentorship to test automation engineers and manual testers.
  • Collaborating with development, architecture, DevOps, and business teams.
  • Troubleshooting automation issues and optimizing the stability and performance of test suites.
  • Participating in Agile ceremonies and contributing to the continuous improvement of testing processes.
Required Qualifications

Education: A minimum of 8 years of experience with a BS/BA degree, 6 years with an MS/MA degree, or 3 years with a PhD is required.

 

Experience: Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance. Proven experience validating complex transactional or rules-based systems, ideally involving dual-run or parallel production testing. Experience designing functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end automated testing strategies is necessary.

 

Technical Skills:

  • Hands-on experience building automated test frameworks and large-scale automated test suites.
  • Demonstrated experience using automation tools such as Cucumber, Selenium, Postman, JUnit, Jira, TestRail, or similar.
  • Proven experience validating complex transactional or rules-based systems, ideally involving dual-run or parallel production testing.
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD tools and processes (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar).
  • Experience designing functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end automated testing strategies.
  • Ability to develop and maintain empirical data–driven test data strategies.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate testing approaches, results, and risks to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

 

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with Facets or other healthcare claims processing platforms.
  • Background supporting federal healthcare programs.
  • Experience testing or modernizing legacy-to-modern system migrations.
  • Familiarity with Quality Management Plans and QA governance in federal programs.
  • Experience working in scaled Agile environments (SAFe or similar).
  • Relevant certifications (e.g., ISTQB, Certified Agile Tester, AWS/Azure cloud certifications).
  • Active or prior Public Trust clearance.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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Employee Type:
Contract

Location:
Woodlawn, MD, US

Job Type:
Engineering and Technicians

Date Posted:
June 16, 2026

Pay Range:
$50 - $57 per hour

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