The posting
Job Summary
We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Mid-Level Software Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer and Tester with Agile methodology experience to support the delivery of high-quality software systems. This role focuses on planning, executing, and automating testing activities across web-based front-end and back-end systems. The ideal candidate brings strong technical testing skills, a collaborative mindset, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced Agile environment.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a Test Engineer supporting system and software delivery efforts.
- Develop, establish, and maintain quality assurance methodologies, standards, and processes.
- Create and maintain test procedures and test cases for system, functional, regression, performance, load, security, interoperability, stress, and boundary testing.
- Analyze backlog items and define testing scope, estimates, and automation candidates.
- Develop and execute test plans, test scripts, and automated tests for integration, migration, regression, performance, disaster recovery, and security testing.
- Identify, document, track, and resolve software defects, maintaining accurate defect backlogs and reports.
- Support hardware and software evaluation, including associated documentation reviews.
- Perform iteration, regression, and performance testing activities.
- Map test cases to requirements to ensure requirements traceability.
- Support and validate User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Participate actively in Agile Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, testing, demos, retrospectives, and releases.
- Collaborate with developers, product owners, and stakeholders to define testing strategies and validation criteria.
- Assist with test scenario design, test planning, metrics, and quality reporting.
- Execute testing across web front-end, back-end, API, messaging, and database layers.
- Perform validation at multiple levels including API, database, logging, and UI testing.
- Contribute to a collaborative, cross-functional Agile team environment.
Qualifications
Required
- U.S. Citizenship with the ability to pass a background investigation.
- Applicable combination of education and experience: Test Engineer (T3): Bachelors degree and 5+ years of IT experience, including 2–3 years supporting integration solutions using .NET or related technologies. Test Engineer (T4): Bachelors degree and 7+ years of IT experience, including 2–3 years supporting integration solutions using .NET or related technologies. Testing Lead (T5): Bachelors degree and 15+ years of IT experience, including 2–3 years supporting integration solutions using .NET or related technologies.
- Experience testing applications developed in C#/.NET.
- Strong ability to produce test documentation, including test plans, procedures, defect reports, and requirements documents.
- Experience with functional, integration, system, and user acceptance testing.
- Familiarity with information security best practices.
- Ability to apply test estimation techniques to software development efforts.
- Experience with testing and CI tools such as Jenkins, TeamCity, and automation frameworks including Robot Framework, SpecFlow, JUnit, TestNG, NUnit, or similar.
- Familiarity with version control systems such as Git, SVN, CVS, or Mercurial.
- Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and Agile Scrum methodology.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Collaborative, team-oriented, and self-motivated with a strong work ethic.
Desired
- Experience with Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) or similar tools.
- Prior experience guiding testing strategies in collaboration with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Scrum Masters.
- Experience testing API-driven and service-oriented architectures.



