Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Xcelerate Solutions is an organization serving the GovCon industry with secure, high-performing enterprise platforms. The QA Test Engineer will design, develop, and execute manual and automated testing strategies while validating software quality, reliability, security, and performance. The role includes test automation, API and database validation, defect management, compliance testing, and collaboration within an Agile environment.
Responsibilities
- Analyze system requirements, user stories, and design documents to create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans, test cases, and test scenarios
- Perform thorough manual functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, and user acceptance testing (UAT) to validate system behavior against requirements
- Conduct usability and UI testing to verify that frontend implementations match designed wireframes and user experience guidelines
- Design, develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts utilizing modern frameworks (such as Cypress, Selenium, Playwright, or WebdriverIO) to optimize regression testing
- Implement and maintain automated API testing suites (using Postman, RestAssured, or similar tools) to validate backend RESTful services and microservices
- Integrate automated test suites into continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines (such as Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, or Jenkins) to support automated build validation
- Write and execute database queries (using SQL or equivalent) to validate database migrations, inspect data integrity, and verify that backend transactions occur correctly
- Conduct API, database, and backend validation testing to ensure end-to-end system cohesion
- Perform rigorous regression testing cycles ahead of scheduled deployment releases to guarantee system stability
- Document, track, and manage software defects through their entire lifecycle using tools like Jira or Azure Boards, ensuring clear, reproducible steps and detailed logs are provided to development teams
- Work closely with the software development team to isolate, replicate, and resolve system issues
- Verify system compliance with accessibility standards, ensuring the application meets Section 508 and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) requirements
- Produce detailed test execution reports, quality metrics, and compliance documentation for project management and stakeholder review
Skills
- • Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (equivalent professional experience may be considered)
- • Minimum of 5+ years of professional software quality assurance and testing experience
- • 3+ years of hands-on experience designing, writing, and executing automated test scripts for enterprise-scale web applications
- • Proven experience testing single-page applications (SPAs) built with modern frontend frameworks (such as React) and backends built with robust frameworks (such as .NET Core / .NET)
- • Proficient with automated testing tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Playwright)
- • Strong understanding of RESTful API testing, JSON, and web services
- • Solid database testing experience, including proficiency in writing and optimizing SQL queries
- • Familiarity with version control systems (Git) and collaborative branching workflows
- • Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) processes in an Agile/Scrum environment
- • High attention to detail with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- • Outstanding verbal and written communication skills to articulate defects and collaborate with technical and non-technical team members
- • Work Status Allowable: U.S. citizenship
- • Minimum Clearance to Start: Public Trust or Favorably Adjudicated Secret Clearance
- • Compliance: Must strictly adhere to enterprise cybersecurity policies, operations security (OPSEC) requirements, and system access regulations
- • Experience with performance, load, and stress testing tools (such as JMeter, Locust, or LoadRunner)
- • Experience working with cloud-based test automation platforms (such as Sauce Labs, BrowserStack, or AWS Device Farm)
- • Knowledge of mobile application testing (iOS, Android) and responsive web design testing frameworks
- • Experience performing security, vulnerability, or penetration testing
- • Practical knowledge of Section 508 compliance testing tools (such as JAWS, NVDA, WAVE, or Axe)
- • Cybersecurity Baseline Certification (Preferred but not required)
- Active DoD 8570.01-M / DoD 8140 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level II certification (or higher). Acceptable certifications include:
- • CompTIA Security+ CE (highly preferred)
- • GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC)
- • Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
- • CCNA-Security
- • Professional/Technical Certifications (Preferred but not required)
- • ISTQB Certified Tester (Foundation or Advanced Level)
- • Certified Software Test Engineer (CSTE)
- • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- Growth and development opportunities
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