Cloud Migration Test Automation Engineer

Why AIS?

When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

• Employee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.

• Continuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

• Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.

• Mission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

What are we looking for?

At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.

What you will be doing?

This position is contingent upon contract award. We are currently pursuing a proposal and are seeking qualified candidates to include in our submission and identify candidates for future hiring needs on the program once awarded.

• Core Knowledge & Skills: Designs complex network and hybrid‑cloud solutions; implements security controls, DR/BCP, and automated IaC with deployment pipelines; performs advanced performance tuning.

• Work & Complexity: Solves complex issues, designs and delivers new infrastructure solutions, performs capacity planning, and leads advanced automation initiatives.

• Quality & Independence: Drives root‑cause analysis, enforces best practices and QA on changes, optimizes for reliability and user experience; operates with high autonomy.

• Teamwork & Communication: Leads cross‑functional efforts, mentors juniors, facilitates knowledge transfer, and aligns stakeholders with technical plans.

• Consulting & Engagement: Provides strategic input on infrastructure initiatives, recommends advanced technologies, and manages vendor relationships.

Project Summary

The Cloud Migration Test Automation Engineer ensures that applications work as expected after moving from on-premises data centers to Azure and AWS as part of a large-scale enterprise cloud migration program. The role is a hands-on technical engineer who builds automated validation tests, performs technical validation of migrated applications, and prepares acceptance evidence for a migration team. The role is remote.

Key Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains reusable automated test scripts and frameworks that validate migrated applications and speed up repeatable validation across applications.
• Establishes technical baselines before migration and compares post-migration results against them to identify failures.
• Validates Azure and AWS configurations after migration, including networking, connectivity, DNS, identity, and cloud services.
• Validates APIs, application interfaces, integrations, and databases, including data integrity and application data access.
• Executes smoke, regression, and performance and reliability tests against agreed baselines.
• Integrates automated test execution and reporting into CI/CD pipelines.
• Manages test cases, results, defects, and requirements traceability in approved test management tools, including Jama Connect where applicable.
• Assembles technical acceptance evidence for each migrated application and shares results, risks, and Go/No-Go recommendations with the team lead.

Required For This Opportunity

• US Citizen
• Minimum five years of software testing or quality engineering experience, including building automated test frameworks
• Strong PowerShell and Python scripting skills for developing automated validation scripts and reusable test utilities
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, API, and database testing· Experience with test automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, pytest, or Robot Framework
• Ability to independently develop and execute technical validation scripts
• Works on complex problems without appreciable direction and provides functional leadership to team members

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience testing applications during cloud migrations· Experience with Jama Connect, or integrating test automation frameworks with enterprise test management platforms
• Experience testing applications hosted in Azure or AWS
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins
• Experience with API testing tools such as Postman, Newman, or REST Assured
• Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter or k6· Federal program delivery experience
• Experience using GitHub and GitHub Copilot for source control and AI-assisted development
• Familiarity with AI technologies and their practical use in IT delivery or cloud environments

At AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contributions of each team member.

The targeted base salary range for this role is $102,000-$154,000 per year. Please note that this range is provided as a guideline and the final offer will be based on several factors, including but not limited to, skillset and competencies, level of experience, education, certifications, and location.

We value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview process.

Applied Information Sciences does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs.

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Our Benefits

We provide benefits that invest in your health and future. Some of our employee favorites:

• Competitive Salaries

• Qualified Overtime

• Paid Time Off (PTO)

• Flexible Holiday Leave (88 hours per year)

• Parental Leave

• Immediate Healthcare: Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

• 401(k) Retirement Plan (5% match on base compensation, immediate 100% vesting)

• Tuition Reimbursement & Learning Allowance

• Referral Bonus Program (up to $5k)