QA Test Engineer

Nationwide IT Services

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Nationwide IT Services, NIS, is seeking a QA Test Engineer for the following potential opportunity: Analyze requirements, user stories, ICDs, and acceptance criteria; translate them into comprehensive test plans and test cases. Define test strategies covering functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, performance, accessibility (as required), and security validation support. Develop test estimates, schedules, entry/exit criteria, and risk-based test approaches aligned to release milestones. Maintain traceability from requirements to test cases to defects to final verification (RTM/trace matrices). Execute manual tests across UI, backend services, and integrations in multiple environments (dev/test/stage/prod-like). Validate API behavior (REST/SOAP as applicable) including authentication, authorization, input validation, error handling, and contract compliance. Design and implement automated regression suites for UI and API layers using program-approved frameworks (e.g., Selenium/Playwright/Cypress for UI; Postman/Newman/RestAssured for APIs). Build maintainable automation: reusable components, page objects, test data management, tagging, and reporting. Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (smoke tests, gated builds, nightly runs) in partnership with DevSecOps. Monitor automation outcomes; triage failures, reduce flakiness, and continuously improve coverage. Produce and maintain test documentation: test plans, procedures, test reports, RTM, automation runbooks, and release notes inputs. Primary Objectives: Assist in the Discovery Phase activities of gathering user requirements, business analysis, legacy system analysis, Epic/Story creation, external data integration planning, and product backlog management.

Requirements

Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, test design techniques, and defect lifecycle management.
Hands-on experience executing tests for web applications and APIs.

Nice To Haves

Active Secret Clearance Preferred
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems
2+ years (or program-equivalent) experience in software testing/QA for enterprise applications.
Test automation experience with one or more: UI: Playwright, Selenium, Cypress API: Postman/Newman, RestAssured, Karate

Responsibilities

Analyze requirements, user stories, ICDs, and acceptance criteria; translate them into comprehensive test plans and test cases.
Define test strategies covering functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, performance, accessibility (as required), and security validation support.
Develop test estimates, schedules, entry/exit criteria, and risk-based test approaches aligned to release milestones.
Maintain traceability from requirements to test cases to defects to final verification (RTM/trace matrices).
Execute manual tests across UI, backend services, and integrations in multiple environments (dev/test/stage/prod-like).
Validate API behavior (REST/SOAP as applicable) including authentication, authorization, input validation, error handling, and contract compliance.
Design and implement automated regression suites for UI and API layers using program-approved frameworks (e.g., Selenium/Playwright/Cypress for UI; Postman/Newman/RestAssured for APIs).
Build maintainable automation: reusable components, page objects, test data management, tagging, and reporting.
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (smoke tests, gated builds, nightly runs) in partnership with DevSecOps.
Monitor automation outcomes; triage failures, reduce flakiness, and continuously improve coverage.
Produce and maintain test documentation: test plans, procedures, test reports, RTM, automation runbooks, and release notes inputs.
Assist in the Discovery Phase activities of gathering user requirements, business analysis, legacy system analysis, Epic/Story creation, external data integration planning, and product backlog management.