Software Engineer (Test Automation)

Nava is a consultancy and public benefit corporation focused on improving government services. The Backend Test Engineer will work on modernizing legacy enterprise platforms to enhance public-facing processes and user experiences, ensuring systems are scalable, secure, and user-friendly.

Responsibilities:

• Working with fellow Nava engineers to design, review, and build well-crafted software
• Collaborate with government partners and other contractors to architect, implement, and deploy new systems and improvements to existing systems
• Working in an agile manner to efficiently ship new features that meet user needs
• Write and maintain documentation for test plans, test cases, and test results
• Monitor and analyze test results, and report defects and performance issues to development teams
• Ensure compliance with security best practices in all testing activities
• Participating in an on-call rotation to support production systems and investigate issues when they occur
• Taking part in hiring activities (e.g., submitting referrals, conducting interviews, and attending interview debriefs), as needed

Requirements:

• Minimum of 8 years of testing experience
• At least 5 years coding in Javascript
• Ability to develop testing strategy, define testing processes, introduce best practices, and advocate for test automation
• Experience with defining and executing test plans and test cases for complex enterprise applications
• Strong skills in tracking, reporting, and prioritizing defects using tools like Jira, Github project
• Experience with a mix of automation tools such as: Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, JUnit, or other automation frameworks
• Knowledge of performance testing tools
• Experience leading regression, UAT, and E2E testing
• Familiarity with security testing and data protection best practices
• Highly resourceful, reliable, and detail-oriented
• Ability to think strategically around trade-offs and short term vs. long term benefits
• An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative and positive mindset
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, technical and otherwise
• Legal authorization to work in the United States
• Ability to meet any other requirements for government contracts for which candidates are hired
• Work authorization that doesn't require visa sponsorship, now or in the future
• May be subject to a government background check or security clearance, depending on the contract