Quality Assurance System Tester

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

📋 Description

• Assist in a large-scale agile software development initiative for the GrantSolutions contract.

• Verify application features, integrations, data flows, legacy touchpoints, and release packages throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

• Analyze user stories, acceptance criteria, technical designs, data mappings, interface specifications, and release plans to establish test coverage.

• Create, implement, and uphold manual and automated test cases for features, integrations, workflows, reports, database modifications, regression, smoke, and user acceptance testing.

• Develop and sustain automated test scripts, test suites, reusable test data, and regression assets across development, testing, staging, and release environments.

• Conduct end-to-end testing across application components, legacy functionalities, data exchanges, background jobs, workflows, reporting outputs, and role-based access paths.

• Facilitate integration and database testing by confirming data persistence, transformation logic, error handling, access behavior, and downstream processing.

• Record defects with reproducible steps, expected and actual results, evidence, severity, priority, environment details, screenshots, and logs.

• Collaborate with developers to replicate defects, analyze logs and test results, validate fixes, and assist in release readiness decisions.

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and support execution, results review, failure analysis, environment coordination, and test data maintenance.

• Aid in accessibility, security, performance, data quality, and operational readiness testing.

• Contribute to the ongoing enhancement of quality practices, automation frameworks, defect management, traceability, release validation, and quality metrics.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust; approved adjudication is required prior to onboarding.

• A Bachelor’s degree is required.

• A minimum of four (4) years of experience in software quality assurance, software testing, application testing, test automation, systems testing, or related SDLC positions.

• Practical experience in designing, executing, and documenting test cases for application features, integrations, database changes, workflows, regression, smoke, and user acceptance testing.

• Practical experience in developing, maintaining, and executing automated test scripts using automation tools, frameworks, scripting languages, or code-based testing methodologies.

• Experience in testing web-based applications, data integrations, interfaces, reports, background processes, and end-to-end business workflows across various environments.

• Familiarity with defect tracking, test management, requirements traceability, test evidence capture, test data preparation, release validation, and defect retesting.

• Understanding of SDLC, agile delivery, DevSecOps, version control, branching and merging, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and release management.

• Ability to interpret user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, interface specifications, data mappings, architecture guidance, and technical design documentation.

• Capability to troubleshoot test failures, isolate defects, analyze logs, query data, validate fixes, and communicate software quality risks.

• Strong documentation skills for test plans, test cases, test scripts, traceability matrices, defect records, test evidence, and release readiness summaries.

• Ability to work collaboratively with Product Owners, developers, integration engineers, data teams, DevSecOps engineers, vendors, security teams, and business stakeholders.

• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and capable of managing competing testing priorities and release timelines.

• Candidates with an active Public Trust or suitability are preferred.

• Experience with Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Cucumber, Postman/Newman, REST Assured, JUnit, TestNG, or similar tools is desirable.

• Experience with Jira, Subject 7, Confluence, or similar platforms is a plus.

• Familiarity with AWS, SQL/database validation, data integration, accessibility, security, performance, logging, monitoring, or observability tools is an advantage.

• Quality, agile, testing, automation, cloud, or security certification is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance.

• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays.

• Parental Leave.

• 401(k) Retirement Plan.

• Group Term Life and Travel Assistance.

• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance.

• Health Savings Account.

• Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts.

• Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits.

• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability.

• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities.

• Employee Referral Program.

• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach.

• Care.com annual membership.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance, and ID theft protection, etc.).

• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus.

• Flexible benefits package.