Quality Assurance System Tester

Guidehouse•Tysons, VA

21h•$85,000 - $141,000

About The Position

The Quality Assurance System Tester will support the GrantSolutions large-scale agile software development program, covering new software capabilities and ongoing support for legacy system functionality. Embedded with software delivery teams, the tester will validate application features, integrations, data flows, legacy touchpoints, and release packages throughout the software development lifecycle. The role designs and executes manual and automated tests, supports developer-led quality practices, analyzes defects, verifies code changes, and helps ensure that system capabilities meet functional, technical, security, accessibility, and operational requirements before production release. The role works with developers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, integration engineers, data teams, DevSecOps engineers, vendors, and Federal stakeholders. It reviews user stories and technical designs, develops test scenarios, validates software behavior, supports application and data testing, documents and retests defects, and contributes to automated regression testing within CI/CD pipelines. The position helps strengthen engineering quality, improve release confidence, and reduce production risk across new application components, legacy functionality, and system integrations.

Requirements

Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust; approved Public Trust adjudication is required before onboarding.
Bachelor’s degree required.
At least four years of experience in software quality assurance, software testing, application testing, test automation, systems testing, or related software development lifecycle roles.
Hands-on experience designing, executing, and documenting test cases for application features, integrations, database changes, workflows, regression testing, smoke testing, and user acceptance testing.
Hands-on experience developing, maintaining, and executing automated test scripts using automation tools, frameworks, scripting languages, or code-based testing approaches.
Experience testing web-based applications, data integrations, interfaces, reports, background processes, and end-to-end business workflows across multiple software environments.
Experience with defect tracking, test management, requirements traceability, test evidence capture, test data preparation, release validation, and defect retesting.
Understanding of the software development lifecycle, agile delivery, DevSecOps practices, version control, branching and merging concepts, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and release management.
Ability to interpret user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, interface specifications, data mappings, architecture guidance, and technical design documentation.
Ability to troubleshoot test failures, isolate defects, analyze logs, query data when needed, validate fixes, and communicate software quality risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong documentation skills, including maintaining test plans, test cases, test scripts, traceability matrices, defect records, test evidence, and release readiness summaries.
Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills, and ability to work effectively with a multidisciplinary software delivery team.
Self-motivated and detail-oriented, with the ability to work effectively in fast-paced environments with competing testing priorities and release timelines.

Nice To Haves

Active Public Trust or suitability.
Experience supporting initiatives involving both new application capabilities and ongoing validation of legacy functionality in enterprise or government environments.
Experience supporting federal or government IT programs involving legacy systems, shared services, interoperability, cloud environments, data governance, system integrations, or phased capability delivery.
Experience with test automation tools or frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Cucumber, Postman/Newman, REST Assured, JUnit, TestNG, or similar tools.
Experience with test management, defect tracking, and agile delivery tools such as Jira, Subject 7, Confluence, or similar platforms.
Familiarity with AWS cloud environments, SQL/database validation, data integration testing, accessibility testing, security testing, performance testing, logging, monitoring, or observability tools.
Exposure to Git-based workflows, pull request validation, build verification, unit test awareness, static analysis results, or other engineering practices that support software quality.
Quality, agile, testing, automation, cloud, or security certification preferred, such as ISTQB, Certified ScrumMaster, SAFe, AWS Cloud Practitioner, Security+, or similar credentials.

Responsibilities

Review user stories, acceptance criteria, technical designs, data mappings, interface specifications, and release plans to define complete and traceable test coverage.
Design, execute, and maintain manual and automated test cases for application features, integrations, workflows, reports, database changes, regression scenarios, smoke testing, and user acceptance testing.
Develop and maintain automated test scripts, test suites, reusable test data, and regression assets for consistent execution across development, test, staging, and release environments.
Perform end-to-end testing across new application components, supported legacy functionality, data exchanges, background jobs, user workflows, reporting outputs, and role-based access paths.
Validate data persistence, transformation logic, error handling, access behavior, and downstream processing outcomes through integration and database testing.
Document defects with reproducible steps, expected and actual results, test evidence, severity, priority, environment details, and supporting screenshots or logs as appropriate.
Collaborate with developers during sprint execution to reproduce defects, analyze logs or test results, validate fixes, clarify expected behavior, and support code promotion and release readiness decisions.
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines where appropriate and support test execution, results review, failure analysis, test environment coordination, and reusable test data maintenance.
Support accessibility, security, performance, data quality, and operational readiness testing with specialized teams and according to approved program standards.
Contribute to continuous improvement of software quality practices, test automation frameworks, defect management, traceability, release validation, and engineering quality metrics.

Benefits

Comprehensive total rewards package with competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package.
Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance.
Personal and family sick time and company-paid holidays.
Parental leave.
401(k) retirement plan.
Group term life and travel assistance.
Voluntary life and AD&D insurance.
Health Savings Account and Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts.
Transit and parking commuter benefits.
Short-term and long-term disability.
Tuition reimbursement, personal development, certifications, and learning opportunities.
Employee referral program.
Corporate-sponsored events and community outreach.
Care.com annual membership.
Employee Assistance Program.
Supplemental benefits via Corestream, including critical care, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, legal assistance, and identity theft protection.
Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus.