QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER

VSolvit

About The Position

The Quality Assurance Engineer performs entry-level quality engineering tasks in support of test automation and validation efforts. This position assists in developing automated test scripts and supports integration of test tools with CI/CD pipelines. The role requires a foundational understanding of scripting, software build processes, and basic development principles. As with any position, additional expectations exist. Some of these are, but are not limited to, adhering to normal working hours, meeting deadlines, following company policies as outlined by the Employee Handbook, communicating regularly with assigned supervisor(s), and staying focused on the assigned tasks including company meetings, and completing other tasks as assigned.

Requirements

U.S. Citizenship Required
Active Secret clearance
3+ years (or equivalent) of experience in QA automation for web applications and APIs
Strong hands-on experience with Selenium WebDriver (locators, waits, stability patterns, test maintainability)
Experience testing REST APIs and services (automation or tooling such as Postman/Newman and/or .NET test harnesses)
Working proficiency with C#/.NET and ability to debug test code and application behavior
Demonstrated experience testing React SPAs (routing, state, async behavior, cross-browser considerations)
If applicable: If you are or have been recently employed by the U.S. government by the U.S. government, a post-employment ethics letter will be required if employment with VSolvit is offered

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting or migrating from legacy Blazor applications (maintenance testing, regression stabilization, transition planning)
Experience with Jira for defect tracking, sprint/Agile workflows, dashboards, and reporting
Experience with Playwright and/or Cypress (in addition to Selenium)
Test frameworks: NUnit/xUnit/MSTest, SpecFlow (BDD), fluent assertions
CI/CD implementation experience (pipeline gates, test reporting, flaky-test triage)
Experience in regulated/government environments; familiarity with NIST-aligned secure development practices
If applicable: If you are or have been recently employed by the U.S. government by the U.S. government, a post-employment ethics letter will be required if employment with VSolvit is offered

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain Selenium-based UI automation primarily for React applications, aligned to CI/CD pipeline execution (smoke/regression)
Provide test coverage and maintenance support for legacy Blazor UI as needed (stabilize suites, reduce flakiness, maintain critical paths)
Build and execute API test automation for C#/.NET (REST) services including contract validation, authorization, and negative testing
Contribute to scalable automation frameworks (Page Object Model, reusable utilities, data-driven patterns, parallel runs)
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD (Azure DevOps/GitHub/Jenkins as applicable), including quality gates, reporting, and triage workflows
Collaborate in an Agile/Scrum environment to define acceptance criteria, test strategy, and release readiness
Log and manage defects with strong evidence and traceability using Jira (and related plugins as applicable)
Perform targeted manual and exploratory testing, support release validation, and participate in root-cause analysis
Support secure SDLC documentation and evidence capture appropriate for government environments