QA Test Engineer

Koniag Government Services•Washington, DC

About The Position

Tuknik Government Services, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking a QA Test Engineer with a Secret security clearance to support a U.S. Army customer on a large-scale contracting systems modernization and automation program. The role is a contingent recruiting profile for a future new business opportunity; the opening, employing subsidiary, compensation, work location, and staffing are subject to final contract authorization. The QA Test Engineer plans and executes functional verification of solution capabilities, converting requirements and acceptance criteria into Government-visible evidence. Testing covers Appian logic, APIs, workflows, interfaces, security roles, data, accessibility, regression, and user acceptance. The role generally supports Government business hours and may be performed remotely when authorized, at Government facilities, or in controlled office and data-center environments. Work involving classified information or SIPRNet must take place at a Government-approved secure location using authorized systems. Occasional release, incident-response, maintenance-window, or approved travel requirements may apply.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field; additional relevant experience may substitute for education.
Four or more years of software quality assurance and test experience for enterprise web or workflow applications.
Experience with manual and automated functional testing, defect management, requirements traceability, test data, and release evidence.
Working knowledge of APIs, relational data, role-based security, accessibility, and Agile/DevSecOps delivery.
U.S. citizenship and an active security clearance or eligibility required for the assigned work by the start of performance, with ongoing eligibility thereafter.
Ability to communicate clearly with Government, technical, and business stakeholders and maintain accurate work records in approved systems.
Ability to protect Controlled Unclassified Information and classified information, when assigned, and comply with required access, training, and handling procedures.

Nice To Haves

Experience testing Appian applications with FitNesse, Selenium/WebDriver, Postman, SoapUI, Cypress, or comparable tools.
Experience validating Federal acquisition, financial, records-management, or other audit-sensitive workflows.
ISTQB, Appian, accessibility, or Agile testing certification.

Responsibilities

Develop test strategies, plans, cases, data, expected results, traceability, and execution schedules for changes and migration waves.
Test Appian expression rules, application logic, interfaces, Record Types, process models, security groups, and business workflows.
Assess and reuse Government-furnished FitNesse/Selenium assets before creating replacement or supplemental regression tests.
Execute smoke, functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, negative, accessibility, role-based access, and user-acceptance testing.
Validate APIs, authentication, schemas, transformations, error handling, and external interface behavior using approved tools.
Verify migration reconciliation, document-to-record relationships, calculations, permissions, audit history, and reporting parity.
Record defects with reproducible evidence, severity, expected behavior, affected requirements, and retest results.
Maintain test evidence and release-readiness status in Government-approved repositories and dashboards.
Support deployment verification, rollback testing, production observation, and escaped-defect analysis.
Coordinate with users, developers, security specialists, and the Government Product Owner to confirm acceptance.
Protect Controlled Unclassified Information and classified information when assigned, and follow required access, training, and handling procedures.