Quality Assurance System Tester

Guidehouse•Bethesda, MD

17h

About The Position

The Quality Assurance System Tester supports a large-scale agile software development program for a Federal Health contract, covering new software capabilities and ongoing support for legacy system functionality. Embedded with software delivery teams, the tester validates 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 capabilities meet functional, technical, security, accessibility, and operational requirements before production release. The tester works with developers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, integration engineers, data teams, DevSecOps engineers, vendors, and Federal stakeholders. Responsibilities span review of user stories and technical designs, test scenario development, application and data testing, defect documentation and retesting, and automated regression testing within CI/CD pipelines. The role contributes to engineering quality, release confidence, and reduced production risk across new components, legacy functionality, and system integrations.

Requirements

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 test 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 software delivery teams and stakeholders.
Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and able to operate effectively in fast-paced, dynamic environments with competing testing priorities and release timelines.
Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust; approved Public Trust adjudication is required before onboarding with Guidehouse.

Nice To Haves

Active Public Trust or suitability.
Experience supporting software initiatives that combine new application capabilities with 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 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 use across development, test, staging, and release environments.
Perform end-to-end testing of new application components, supported legacy functionality, data exchanges, background jobs, user workflows, reporting outputs, and role-based access paths.
Support integration and database testing by validating data persistence, transformation logic, error handling, access behavior, and downstream processing outcomes.
Document defects with reproducible steps, expected and actual results, evidence, severity, priority, environment details, and supporting screenshots or logs as appropriate.
Collaborate with developers to reproduce defects, analyze logs and 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, 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 improvements in quality practices, automation frameworks, defect management, traceability, release validation, and engineering quality metrics.

Benefits

Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance
Personal and family sick time
Company-paid holidays
Parental leave
401(k) retirement plan
Group term life and travel assistance
Voluntary life and AD&D insurance
Health Savings Account
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