Cypress Testing SME

Position Description:

Help us put reliable quality on autopilot. As a Cypress Testing SME youll architect scale and continuously improve end-to-end (E2E) automation that accelerates delivery reduces risk and raises the bar for accessibility and compliance. Youll mentor a cross-functional team and turn our CI/CD pipeline into a fast trusted feedback loop.
If you enjoy shaping testing strategy and rolling up your sleeves to build clean maintainable Cypress suites this role gives you real ownership: from test architecture and data strategy to CI optimization reporting and a11y audits. Youll collaborate across Dev QA BA and DevOps and your decisions will directly improve release speed and confidence. Youll also get to evaluate best-in-class plugins and codify patterns the whole team will usebuilding a culture where quality is everyones job.
This position is located in Lafayette LA or Fairfax VA.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

Lead & evolve E2E automation: own the creation expansion and long-term maintenance of Cypress E2E test suites that are readable modular and team-friendly (fixtures custom commands page objects data-attributes-based selectors).
Design testing strategy & architecture: define test strategies that align with modern QA standards: test data management network stubbing/mocking () cross-environment stability and flake management (timeouts retries isolation).
Own CI/CD reliability & speed: configure optimize and troubleshoot GitHub Actions workflows that run Cypress at scale (parallelization caching test shard strategy artifacts/screenshots/videos dashboards).
Troubleshoot & continuously improve: diagnose failures locally and in pipelines differentiate true defects vs. flaky tests and drive corrective patterns (stable selectors network stubs test isolation environment parity).
Mentor & uplift the team: coach testers and developers on Cypress tooling patterns and frameworks; author internal guides and working examples; pair-program on tricky cases to accelerate adoption.
Integrate quality throughout the SDLC: collaborate closely with Developers BAs Functional Testers and DevOps to embed automated testing in story definition PR checks release gates and deployment health signals.
Evaluate the Cypress ecosystem (plugins/tools): assess pilot and implement plugins where beneficial
Compliance security & accessibility: ensure automation and test data handling adhere to federal security and data-handling requirements and our internal security standards.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

Expert-level Cypress experience designing and maintaining large E2E suites (JavaScript/TypeScript fixtures custom commands page-objects network stubs).
Proven CI/CD expertise with GitHub Actions (matrix/parallel runs caching artifacts secrets dashboards).
Strong test data management practices for UI flows (seed/reset strategies; ephemeral test users; environment toggles). Testing strategies incl. seeding/stubbing
Fluency in flake reduction: timeouts retries isolation stable selectors cross-env consistency.
Experience implementing accessibility checks (WCAG/Section508) in Cypress (e.g. cypress-axe).
Comfort collaborating across Dev/QA/BA/DevOps to integrate automation in the broader SDLC.
Knowledge of federal security and data-handling standards; experience applying internal controls in test automation.
Desired qualifications/non-essential skills required:
Hands-on with visual testing (Percy/Applitools) in CI.
Rich reporting experience
Familiarity with Testing Library queries and data-attributes strategy for resilient selectors
Experience influencing team practices through documentation workshops and code reviews.
CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set level experience relevant training and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit-based performance CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $71700.00 - $176300.00.
CGI Federals benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:
.Competitive compensation
.Comprehensive insurance options
.Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
.Paid time off for vacation holidays and sick time
.Paid parental leave
.Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
.Wellness and Well-being programs
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Skills:

• Agile Testing
• Cypress
• GitHub
• Test data management
• Security Testing

What you can expect from us:

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