Sr. IT Systems Test Engineer
Posted 1 day ago by 1763641634
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The Senior IT System Test Engineer will coordinate and organize testing activities while addressing testability issues within software systems. This role requires extensive software engineering and testing expertise to identify risks and enhance product quality. The position is remote and is offered as a 12-month contract with potential for extension. The role is classified as outside IR35, indicating a favorable tax status for contractors.
Key Responsibilities:
- Integrates test automation solutions with enterprise infrastructure and architectures.
- Leverage extensive software engineering and testing skills to identify risks and potential defects within software components or systems.
- Influencing software and/or systems development decisions by reviewing work and providing recommendations for design, coding or testing approach, which could include conducting or participating in design reviews, code reviews, or other methods to ensure systems product quality.
- Plan and organize testing activities across software development life cycle, considering various methods and techniques to obtain efficient solutions.
- You will be focusing on implementing the recommendations for using technology to improve testing approaches.
Key Skills:
- Strong hands-on expertise in Python and modern programming practices in enterprise environments.
- Expertise in creating, reviewing, optimizing test cases, designing and leading automation for complex AI-driven projects (OCR, Chatbots, SharePoint), ensuring full coverage of functional, API, and integration scenarios.
- Deep understanding of data structures, API testing, and system interaction patterns.
- Proficient with GitHub, AWS, and secure API development/testing.
- In-depth Knowledge of corporate security and compliance standards (PCI, SOX, WCAG).
- Experience designing and executing automated tests for UI, API, and backend systems.
- Skilled in test planning, risk analysis, effort estimation, and resource management for automation projects.
- Strong command of vendor software integration and cross-platform testing.
- Ability to capture and report test execution metrics and drive resolution of critical defects.
- Hands-on experience deploying and running test automation frameworks on AWS services (e.g., EC2, Lambda, ECS).
- Captures test activity information during execution. Communicates regularly with project members and advocates for resolution of high priority problems.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Senior IT System Test Engineer
12 Month Contract (Potential to extend)
Remote
$60/hr - $67/hr W2
As a Sr. IT System Test Engineer, you will be responsible for coordinating and organizing the activities involved in testing and solving testability problems.
Responsibilities:
- Integrates test automation solutions with enterprise infrastructure and architectures.
- Leverage extensive software engineering and testing skills to identify risks and potential defects within software components or systems.
- Influencing software and/or systems development decisions by reviewing work and providing recommendations for design, coding or testing approach, which could include conducting or participating in design reviews, code reviews, or other methods to ensure systems product quality.
- Plan and organize testing activities across software development life cycle, considering various methods and techniques to obtain efficient solutions.
- You will be focusing on implementing the recommendations for using technology to improve testing approaches.
Required Skills:
- Strong hands-on expertise in Python and modern programming practices in enterprise environments.
- Expertise in creating, reviewing, optimizing test cases, designing and leading automation for complex AI-driven projects (OCR, Chatbots, SharePoint), ensuring full coverage of functional, API, and integration scenarios
- Deep understanding of data structures, API testing, and system interaction patterns.
- Proficient with GitHub, AWS, and secure API development/testing.
- In-depth Knowledge of corporate security and compliance standards (PCI, SOX, WCAG).
- Experience designing and executing automated tests for UI, API, and backend systems.
- Skilled in test planning, risk analysis, effort estimation, and resource management for automation projects.
- Strong command of vendor software integration and cross-platform testing.
- Ability to capture and report test execution metrics and drive resolution of critical defects.
- Hands-on experience deploying and running test automation frameworks on AWS services (e.g., EC2, Lambda, ECS)
- Captures test activity information during execution. Communicates regularly with project members and advocates for resolution of high priority problems
Preferred Skills and Experiences:
- Hands-on experience with Playwright, Postman, or equivalent test automation tools.
- Knowledge of Performance and Load Testing tools (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner).
- Experience with monitoring/log analysis tools such as Splunk.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows.
- Experience creating data visualizations, dashboards, or analytical test reports.
- Exposure to machine learning model validation, NLP testing, or Generative AI systems.
Education and Experience Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in an Information Technology discipline or related field of study (e.g., Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS) and a minimum four years of related work experience designing, programming, testing and supporting software programs and applications.
- In lieu of a degree, a minimum of six years related work experience designing, programming, testing and supporting software programs or applications may be accepted.