Quality Assurance Tester II

Summary

Joint Strategic Technologies (JST) supports federal customers by enabling successful mission outcomes through expertise from the military, government, and private sectors. The Quality Assurance Tester II plans, executes, documents, and reports software testing activities across the software development lifecycle, validating functional, technical, security, and performance requirements. This full-time remote role includes periodic onsite support and occasional travel.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts
• Conduct functional, integration, regression, performance, and security testing
• Support requirements validation and traceability
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts
• Document, track, and verify defect resolution
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and DevSecOps activities
• Support release readiness and deployment validation
• Maintain test documentation, metrics, and reports

Skills

• * 2+ years of professional experience in software testing, quality assurance, application testing, systems testing, or software validation
• * Bachelor's degree in a related field
• * CompTIA Network+ or qualifying degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or Software Engineering (CompTIA Security+, CEH, CFR, GSEC, PenTest+, SSCP, and other qualifying higher-level cybersecurity certifications may be used in lieu of Network+)
• * Ability to obtain & maintain a Secret clearance
• * ISTQB testing certifications; experience with Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Postman, JMeter, SoapUI, Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, GitLab, API testing, security testing, and cloud-based application validation
• * 2–5 years of experience supporting software quality assurance activities
• * Experience performing functional, integration, regression, and security testing
• * Experience using: Test management tools, Defect tracking tools, Requirements management tools
• * Experience supporting Agile software development teams
• * Experience developing and executing test plans and test cases
• * Experience supporting automated testing frameworks
• * Experience validating software requirements and acceptance criteria
• * Experience supporting cloud-hosted and enterprise software applications
• * Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices
• * Experience supporting software release and deployment testing activities

Qualifications

Must Haves

• * 2+ years of professional experience in software testing, quality assurance, application testing, systems testing, or software validation
• * Bachelor's degree in a related field
• * CompTIA Network+ or qualifying degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or Software Engineering (CompTIA Security+, CEH, CFR, GSEC, PenTest+, SSCP, and other qualifying higher-level cybersecurity certifications may be used in lieu of Network+)
• * Ability to obtain & maintain a Secret clearance

Nice to Haves

• * ISTQB testing certifications; experience with Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Postman, JMeter, SoapUI, Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, GitLab, API testing, security testing, and cloud-based application validation
• * 2–5 years of experience supporting software quality assurance activities
• * Experience performing functional, integration, regression, and security testing
• * Experience using: Test management tools, Defect tracking tools, Requirements management tools
• * Experience supporting Agile software development teams
• * Experience developing and executing test plans and test cases
• * Experience supporting automated testing frameworks
• * Experience validating software requirements and acceptance criteria
• * Experience supporting cloud-hosted and enterprise software applications
• * Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices
• * Experience supporting software release and deployment testing activities

Benefits

• Full-time remote position with periodic onsite support and occasional travel
• Complete benefits package
• Collaborative work environment
• Strong company culture
• Employee professional and personal objectives support
• Employee development
• Healthy lifestyle encouragement
• Family activities encouragement
• Community involvement