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Job Description

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Job Title: QA Tester Security Clearance: Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust; candidates must receive approved adjudication before onboarding. Responsibilities

• Review user stories, acceptance criteria, Java application designs, API specifications, data mappings, and AWS environment documentation to identify test conditions and expected results.
• Create, execute, and maintain manual test cases for functional, system, regression, smoke, integration, API, database, data validation, and user acceptance testing.
• Develop, enhance, and maintain automated test scripts, reusable components, test data, locators, and regression suites using appropriate automated testing tools.
• Use automated testing tools to test web user interfaces, REST or SOAP APIs, databases, and end-to-end business processes, as applicable.
• Execute automated tests across AWS-hosted test environments; analyze results, logs, screenshots, and execution evidence; troubleshoot failures; and maintain tests as the Java applications evolve.
• Test Java-based application components and their interactions with AWS services, APIs, databases, authentication services, data exchanges, legacy systems, workflows, reports, and downstream systems.
• Validate application behavior across AWS environments and use available application, cloud, and pipeline logs to support defect isolation and root-cause analysis.
• Prepare and manage test data, capture test evidence, maintain requirements traceability, and document testing outcomes.
• Log defects with clear reproduction steps, expected and actual results, severity, AWS environment details, and supporting evidence; participate in defect triage and verify fixes.
• Collaborate with Java developers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, AWS and DevSecOps engineers, integration and data teams, security specialists, vendors, and business stakeholders throughout the sprint and release lifecycle.
• Support automated test execution in CI/CD pipelines, scheduled regression runs, and release validation; investigate failures and improve test reliability with senior QA and DevSecOps staff.
• Contribute to test estimates, sprint planning, test coverage reviews, release-readiness assessments, quality metrics, and continuous improvement of AWS and automated testing practices.

Requirements

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust; candidates must receive approved adjudication before onboarding. Candidates with an active Public Trust or suitability determination are preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• FOUR (4) years of experience in software quality assurance, application testing, system testing, or a related technical role.
• Hands-on experience testing Java-based web applications, services, APIs, integrations, and data flows.
• Hands-on experience developing, maintaining, executing, and troubleshooting automated tests using one or more automated testing tools or frameworks.
• Experience creating reusable automated test components, managing test data and locators, applying validations, and interpreting automated test results.
• Experience testing applications deployed in AWS environments and working with cloud-hosted application components, APIs, databases, logs, and multiple test environments.
• Hands-on experience creating and executing functional, system, regression, API, smoke, database, data validation, and user acceptance tests.
• Experience with defect tracking, test management, requirements traceability, test evidence, test data preparation, and defect retesting.
• Working knowledge of the software development lifecycle, agile delivery, DevSecOps concepts, version control, AWS-based CI/CD pipelines, and release management.
• Ability to interpret Java application behavior, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, API contracts, data mappings, and technical design documentation.
• Ability to troubleshoot test failures, analyze automated test execution results and application or AWS logs, isolate defects, and clearly communicate findings and quality risks.
• Strong documentation, analytical, collaboration, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage assigned testing responsibilities with moderate supervision in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities and release timelines.

Leave placeholder text here for recruiter to input System One, and its subsidiaries including Joulé and Mountain Ltd., are leaders in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan. System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. #LI-KA1 #M1 Ref: #851-Rockville-S1

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