Quality Assurance Engineer II

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia.

📋 Description

• The Quality Assurance Engineer II acts as an individual contributor within a team, with support and guidance from leadership, responsible for ensuring that scope, schedule, and delivery objectives are met.

• Conduct functional, regression, and accessibility testing during each sprint, verifying stories against acceptance criteria and identifying merges that do not pass automated test gates.

• Develop and maintain both manual and automated test cases utilizing Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright with moderate assistance from senior QA engineers.

• Execute Axe and pa11y accessibility scans on merge requests, documenting findings in Jira and Confluence in accordance with WCAG 2.1 AA standards.

• Assess API behavior using Postman or Rest Assured as part of the sprint testing coverage.

• Collaborate with developers to create boilerplate and exploratory test cases for new features, helping to decrease cognitive load and identifying edge cases early on.

• Contribute to the CI/CD pipeline test instrumentation in GitLab, ensuring that tests are executed automatically with every build and check-in.

• Engage in load and performance testing activities to support the validation of system capacity and stability.

• Take part in SAFe ceremonies, including sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives, to enhance understanding of the overall program testing strategy.

• Pose questions during design and architecture discussions to ensure that systems are designed with testability in mind from the outset.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of relevant QA engineering experience and a Bachelor's degree, or equivalent additional experience in lieu of a degree.

• Must fulfill federal suitability requirements and successfully complete a background investigation as a condition of employment.

• Expertise in test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright.

• Experience in creating test plans and test cases for both manual and automated testing scenarios.

• Familiarity with API testing tools like Postman or Rest Assured.

• Working knowledge of accessibility testing tools, including Axe and pa11y.

• Experience in integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines and working within GitLab or similar version control systems.

• Understanding of load and performance testing concepts and tools.

• Strong grasp of agile testing methodologies and the integration of QA within a sprint-based delivery model.

🏝️ Benefits

• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Flexible PTO.

• 401K with employer match.

• Paid parental leave after one year of service.

• Employee Assistance Program.