Quality Assurance Engineer

Quality Assurance Engineer (Location is Remote):

List of tasks to be performed:

• Review test requirements, specifications, and documentation to prepare and manage test data for each release.

• Design, execute, and document functional test cases in staging.

• Perform regression testing to ensure new changes do not break existing functionality.

• Log, track, and prioritize defects found in both staging and production using ALM and Version One.

• Collaborate with developers to verify defect fixes in both staging and production.

• Log, track, and prioritize defects found in both staging and production environments.

• Validate deployments and configurations to production environment.

• Execute smoke tests in production to confirm basic functionality post-deployment.

• Prepare and provide comprehensive documentation for production sign-off, including test coverage, results, and outstanding issues.

• Communicate findings and feedback to stakeholders and participate in release meetings.

• Create and manage automated tests using Playwright.

Additional Required Skills/Experience

• A minimum of eight (8) years experience in software development, software quality assurance/control, and/or related field;

• A degree from an accredited College/University in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline is preferred;

• Able to perform all functional duties independently on high-visibility programs, or mission critical aspects of a given program;

• Able to oversee the efforts of direct reporting resources and/or be responsible for the efforts of all staff assigned to a specific job;

• Experience training/mentoring less experienced personnel;

• Extensive knowledge of and experience with formal software testing for complex software applications;

• Extensive experience testing software applications, identifying/documenting defects, and working with developers and end users to resolve defects;

• Extensive experience with multiple defect tracking tools (e.g. Rational, Mercury);

• Extensive experience authoring software-quality-related documentation such as requirements specifications, test plans, test cases, test scripts and test reports;

• Able to obtain Postal clearance;

• Excellent communication skills.

Additional Provisions:

• Pass both a client mandated clearance process to include drug screening, criminal history check and credit check.

• Once candidate's resume is approved and interview passed, the agency is responsible for providing drug screening. Failure to submit the drug screening results will delay the security clearance process.

• If a candidate is given an interim clearance, continuation of employment is then based on the candidate receiving a sensitive clearance.

• All candidates must be a US Citizen, or have permanent residence status (Green Card).

• Candidate must have lived in the US for the past 5 years.

• Cannot have more than 6 months travel outside the United States within the last five years. Military Service excluded. (Exception does not include military family members.)

• All overtime must be pre-approved in writing by the client manager or his/her designated representative.

• Agency will not be reimbursed for overtime charges without previous written authorization. Authorized overtime will be reimbursed at straight time.

• The enforced dress code is business casual, i.e. collared shirt with slacks for men, no skirts above the knee for women. Place and Period of Performance

• Hours of support:
o The standard work week for contract staff will be 5 days a week and 8 hours per day preferable Monday through Friday.
o Contract staff may be required to travel to support business efforts.