Test Automation Engineer (Remote) at GovCIO
Olympia, WA
$150,000–$160,000from the description
Jul 20, 2026
Olympia, WA
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A fully remote role focused on building and maintaining automated test solutions for federal healthcare systems, including a Veterans Health Administration enrollment platform. Day-to-day work involves creating functional, regression, API, and performance test suites with Tricentis Tosca and NeoLoad, wiring those tests into Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, and writing Oracle SQL for data-driven validation. Suits an experienced test automation engineer with relevant Tricentis certification and a background in enterprise or government IT environments.
Senior level · 12+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 6,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software quality assurance analysts and testers). range 1,250–9,000
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $106,594 (middle half $82,076–$136,109). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The JD states 'Bachelor's Degree and 12+ years of experience (or commensurate experience)' — the 'or commensurate experience' clause means no formal degree is hard-gated, so the degree requirement is set to None.
Clearance is listed as 'Public Trust' (a suitability determination, not a national-security clearance), so the clearance requirement is set to None — Public Trust is not one of the enumerated clearance levels.
Tricentis AS1/AS2 and TDS1/TDS2 certifications are listed as required qualifications; these are credentials rather than named technologies and are not emitted as skills, but hiring managers should note they are explicitly required.
NeoLoad is listed as required but qualified with 'or comparable performance testing tools'; well-known alternatives (LoadRunner, Gatling, JMeter) are captured in the alternatives field.
VistA, Cerner, API contract testing, and AI-assisted test generation appear only under the Preferred Skills section.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): AI-assisted test generation.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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