Senior SDET – Healthcare Claims | In-Person Interview

Position Details

• Job Title:

Senior SDET / QA Automation Engineer

• Location:

Reston, VA (Hybrid)

• Work Arrangement:

Hybrid; candidates should be local to the DMV area and available for onsite interviews.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior SDET / QA Automation Engineer with mandatory healthcare claims industry experience and strong hands-on expertise in automation framework development. The ideal candidate will have advanced knowledge of TypeScript, Karate, Java, Selenium WebDriver, and Playwright, along with extensive experience in API testing, database validation, AWS migration, and CI/CD integration.

The candidate must be capable of designing and building scalable automation frameworks from scratch and validating complex, cloud-native, microservices-based applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks using Java, TypeScript, Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, and Karate.
• Build automation frameworks from scratch using Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodologies.
• Perform comprehensive testing of healthcare claims applications, including claims processing and related backend workflows.
• Develop and execute automated test scripts for functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Perform RESTful API and web services testing, including complex backend validation.
• Write and execute complex SQL queries to validate data integrity and business logic across databases.
• Test applications involving MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and other database technologies.
• Validate legacy application migrations to AWS and test cloud-native, microservices-based architectures.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and related DevOps tools.
• Identify, troubleshoot, document, and report defects, test results, and quality metrics.
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, architects, and cross-functional teams in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Support performance, reliability, and security testing activities.
• Establish automation standards, improve test coverage, and mentor junior engineers.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• At least 5 years of relevant software development and testing experience.
• Mandatory healthcare claims experience

, preferably involving healthcare payer or claims processing systems.

• Strong hands-on expertise in

TypeScript and Karate

, including framework development and advanced automation implementation.

• Strong Java programming skills and experience building automation frameworks from scratch.
• Proficiency in Selenium WebDriver and Playwright.
• Extensive experience with REST API testing, web services, and complex SQL queries.
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB and PostgreSQL.
• Experience with AWS and legacy application migration to cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools, including Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
• Experience with BDD/TDD practices and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience testing enterprise-scale healthcare claims applications.
• Knowledge of cloud-native architectures, microservices, and system integrations.
• Experience with continuous testing, deployment automation, and code quality practices.
• Ability to design robust automation strategies and independently drive framework development.
• Experience with performance testing, security testing, and quality reporting.

Important Candidate Requirements

• Candidates must have direct healthcare claims testing experience.
• Advanced TypeScript and Karate expertise is essential; basic familiarity alone will not be sufficient.
• Candidates must have hands-on experience building automation frameworks rather than only executing existing test scripts.
• Candidates should be available for the hybrid work arrangement in Reston, VA