QA Engineer

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About The Position

CVP is seeking a skilled QA Engineer to join our team supporting a federal website modernization project. In this role, you will serve as a hands-on manual tester responsible for validating tickets and features throughout the development lifecycle, ensuring quality and functionality align with project requirements and user expectations. You will collaborate closely with developers, product owners, and other stakeholders to understand acceptance criteria, execute test cases, and clearly document and communicate defects and findings. As a secondary responsibility, you will help maintain and extend our existing Playwright-based automation suite, contributing to automated test coverage as the project evolves. Rather than building a new framework from the ground up, you will work within established automation patterns and tooling to enhance and sustain what is already in place. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, communicates clearly, and is comfortable balancing day-to-day manual testing demands with ongoing contributions to a modern, script-based automation suite in an agile environment.

Requirements

Must be eligible to obtain a high-level Public Trust clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required)
3-5+ years of hands-on manual QA/testing experience
Strong SQL skills — able to write queries independently to investigate and validate data
Experience writing test plans and test cases
Familiar with UI/UX and 508 testing
Experience testing custom and web applications
Strong communication skills — need to document and report findings clearly
Capable of thorough regression testing

Nice To Haves

Experience with Playwright specifically is a plus
Familiarity with CI/CD concepts
Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) a plus
Familiarity with common scripting/programming languages (JS, Python, .NET, etc.)
Experience with Visual Studio and VS Code

Responsibilities

Perform manual testing of tickets/features, including exploratory, functional, UI/UX, and regression testing
Query and validate data directly in the database using SQL to confirm test data availability and correctness
Write and execute test cases and test plans for assigned tickets
Track defects, document results, and close out tickets with clear pass/fail evidence
Maintain and extend our existing Playwright automation suite as time allows (secondary priority, not primary)
Support 508 compliance and performance/load testing as needed
Collaborate with developers to reproduce and clarify reported issues
Present in front of executive level leadership
Act as liaison among multiple QC/Testing teams, coordinating results and reproducing issues
Identify process improvements in the QC/Testing process