Senior QA Automation Engineer at CGI Technologies and Solutions, Inc.
Knoxville, TN
$80,600–$267,800from the description
Jul 23, 2026
Knoxville, TN
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level quality engineering role focused on building and maintaining automated test frameworks for cloud-based data platforms, with particular emphasis on validating ETL/ELT pipelines and large-scale data processing across AWS services. The work involves embedding testing into CI/CD pipelines, performing root cause analysis on data defects, and mentoring junior QA engineers. Suited to someone with deep Java automation experience, strong SQL skills, and a background in data pipeline testing.
Senior level · 7+ years · Knoxville, TN · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1 people in the Knoxville, TN area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software quality assurance analysts and testers). range 1–1
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $87,861 (middle half $76,884–$98,499). 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 role can be located near either the CGI office in Lafayette, LA or Knoxville, TN; Knoxville is listed as the primary posting location. Neither location is remote.
The compensation range ($80,600–$267,800/year) is unusually wide; CGI notes this is a statutory estimate and that they typically do not hire at or near the top of the range.
Jenkins is listed as the first example of a CI/CD tool in the required section alongside GitHub Actions and GitLab CI — all three are captured as alternatives under one skill since the JD treats them interchangeably.
Docker and ECS/EKS appear only under the Preferred/Desired qualifications section.
GitLab appears in the closing skills tag list without a required/preferred designation; it is captured as preferred given the ambiguity, consistent with its appearance as an alternative CI/CD tool in the required section.
'SQLite' appears in the closing skills tag list, but the body of the JD consistently references SQL for data validation/profiling — this appears to be a tagging artifact; SQL is captured as the substantive requirement.
The alternative occupation runner-up (Database Architects, 15-1243) reflects the heavy ETL/data-pipeline validation focus, though the primary day-to-day work is clearly QA automation.
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