Senior Test Automation Engineer at Peraton
Lanham, MD
$80,000–$128,000from the description
Jul 19, 2026
Lanham, MD
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on automation engineering role supporting quality assurance for mission-critical IRS applications. Day-to-day work centers on building and maintaining automated test frameworks for mainframe and web systems, integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines, troubleshooting failures, and mentoring peers on best practices. Suits an experienced engineer with strong programming skills and familiarity with tools such as Selenium, Playwright, or UiPath, who can work across developer, QA, and DevOps teams.
Senior level · 8+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $129,128 (middle half $101,596–$152,655). 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.
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The degree requirement is effectively None: the JD accepts a Bachelor's + 8 yrs, Master's + 6 yrs, Associate's + 10 yrs, or HS diploma + 12 yrs — equivalent experience substitutes for a higher degree at every level.
The MBI clearance is listed as something the candidate 'must be able to obtain and maintain' (not currently hold), so it is not treated as a hard clearance gate. The preferred qualifications note that a current active IRS MBI clearance is 'strongly preferred.'
Total years minimum is set to 8, reflecting the lowest stated combination (Bachelor's + 8 years); other degree/experience combinations imply more years.
The automation framework/tools requirement lists many options (Selenium, UiPath, QTP, HP-UFT, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, REST-assured) as interchangeable examples; Selenium is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps are listed together as examples of CI/CD toolchains; Jenkins is used as the primary with the others as alternatives.
IBM Mainframe / Unisys Mainframe experience appears under Preferred Qualifications.
SQL, XML, JUnit, Parasoft, SOAPUI, UiPath (standalone), Databricks, PySpark, and accessibility tools (JAWS, ZoomText, Dragon NaturallySpeaking) all appear under Preferred Qualifications and are marked accordingly.
UiPath appears both in the required automation tools list (as an interchangeable example) and again as a standalone preferred skill; it is captured once in the required skill's alternatives and once as a standalone preferred entry to reflect the explicit preferred mention.
The alt SOC 15-1252 (Software Developers) is noted because the role involves designing and developing automation frameworks with strong programming requirements, which overlaps with software development work.
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