QA Tester

i360technologies, Inc.•Washington, DC

About The Position

At i360technologies, we deliver business consulting and technology solutions that support the mission of federal agencies.

Requirements

5+ years of software QA / testing experience on federal IT or enterprise software projects.
Hands-on experience writing and executing automated tests against low-code or no-code platforms (preferably Unqork).
Proficiency building and maintaining automated test suites within a CI/CD pipeline; familiarity with tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Postman/Newman, or platform-native test frameworks.
Experience executing QA activities within two-week Scrum sprints, including sprint demos, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
Proficiency with JIRA for defect lifecycle management, test coverage tracking, and sprint metrics reporting.
Experience designing and executing load and performance tests; familiarity with tools such as JMeter, Gatling, Locust, or equivalent.
Demonstrated experience testing applications in a federal cloud environment (AWS GovCloud preferred) with awareness of FISMA, NIST 800-53, and ATO/A&A processes.
Ability to plan, coordinate, and facilitate UAT sessions with Government stakeholders and document evidence for release dates.
Ability to obtain and maintain a federal Public Trust (suitability) clearance
Must be able to pass a federal background investigation
U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency required (no visa sponsorship available)

Nice To Haves

Unqork Configurator or Developer certification.
Familiarity with SAML/OIDC identity federation, RBAC/ABAC access models, and testing authentication workflows.
Experience testing REST and SOAP API integrations, including error-handling, retry, and circuit-breaker patterns.
ISTQB Certified Tester (Foundation or above) or equivalent quality certification.
SAFe or Scrum certification.

Responsibilities

Draft the PoC test strategy aligned to client's acceptance criteria and contract QASP standards.
Define acceptance-criteria templates and Definition of Done (DoD) quality gates for all user stories and epics.
Plan the automated test framework and coverage approach for Unqork modules and workflows.
Prepare baseline test data sets and UAT environment specifications.
Align the defect-management workflow in JIRA across all team members.
Build, maintain, and continuously expand automated test suites targeting Unqork modules, workflows, and API integrations.
Execute functional, regression, integration, and performance test cycles each sprint against the Government CI/CD pipeline.
Validate all sprint acceptance criteria before each sprint demo; block sign-off on any open Severity-1 defect.
Manage the full defect lifecycle in JIRA: triage, severity assignment, assignment to owners, status tracking, and aging reports.
Partner with the Senior Software Developer on performance and security test execution, including load tests at 2× expected concurrency (1,000 named users).
Coordinate Pre-ATO security control assessment evidence capture.
Lead UAT facilitation in Sprint 6: stand up the UAT environment ≥3 business days before kick-off, manage defect resolution cadence (Sev-1 ≤2 days, Sev-2 ≤5 days, Sev-3 ≤10 days), and capture sign-off evidence.
Execute the release-readiness checklist before every production deployment: confirm ≥80% code coverage, all critical tests passing, UAT sign-off captured, ATO artifacts current, and deployment runbook validated.
Contribute defect metrics and test-results summaries to the monthly COR report.