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You’ll own test strategy, maintain and expand our existing test harness, investigate defects, and work closely with engineers to ensure reliable releases. The ideal candidate brings strong testing judgment, practical automation experience, and the ability to guide QA practices across the team.Job Details:\nLead QA Engineer\nJob Summary\nCubic Digital Intelligence is seeking a Lead QA Engineer to own end-to-end software testing across our applications. This engineer will combine hands-on manual testing with Python and Playwright automation to validate complex user workflows, identify regressions, and help engineering teams deliver reliable, high-quality software. The role includes establishing QA priorities, standards, and practices while remaining actively involved in testing, automation development, and troubleshooting. This is a full-time position based in Ashburn, VA, requiring candidates to be local to the Ashburn/Northern Virginia area.\nEssential Functions\nOwn the end-to-end testing strategy, including functional, integration, regression, exploratory, and release testing.\nPerform hands-on manual testing of new features and complex workflows, including edge cases, error handling, and failure scenarios.\nDevelop, maintain, and enhance automated tests using Python and Playwright within existing testing frameworks.\nEvaluate test coverage and determine where automated and manual testing provide the greatest value.\nCollaborate with software engineers, product owners, and technical leads to clarify requirements, define acceptance criteria, and improve testability.\nIdentify, document, and reproduce software defects; investigate failures, perform root cause analysis, and verify corrective actions.\nIntegrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and maintain reliable, repeatable test execution.\nManage test data and environment requirements to support testing across multiple application components.\nCommunicate testing results, quality metrics, and release risks to engineering and product stakeholders.\nEstablish and continuously improve QA standards, testing practices, and processes across development teams.\nProvide technical guidance and mentorship to QA engineers and developers on testing approaches, automation, and software quality practices.\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.\nMust be eligible for a DOD Security Clearence. \nMinimum of 5 years of professional software quality assurance, test engineering, or related software engineering experience.\nMinimum of 2 years of demonstrated QA technical leadership experience, including ownership of testing strategies, automation initiatives, testing standards, or QA activities across engineering teams.\nStrong proficiency in Python and hands-on experience developing and maintaining automated tests using Playwright.\nExperience performing manual, functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing of complex software applications.\nExperience testing REST APIs, validating application data, and troubleshooting software defects using browser developer tools, application logs, and network requests.\nExperience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, SQL, and modern software development practices.\nStrong analytical, investigative, and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to independently diagnose issues across application components.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document defects, communicate technical findings, and articulate software quality risks.\nExperience working collaboratively within Agile software development teams.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with pytest and other Python-based testing frameworks and automation tools.\nExperience developing or maintaining automated testing within GitLab CI/CD pipelines.\nFamiliarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and containerized or distributed application architectures.\nExperience testing applications with complex authentication, authorization, role-based access controls, or data processing workflows.\nFamiliarity with PostgreSQL, REST APIs, Linux administration, and cloud-native technologies.\nExperience testing microservices, asynchronous processing, message-driven architectures, or data-intensive enterprise applications.\nExperience working with automated test reporting, coverage analysis, and quality metrics.\nExperience with performance, load, accessibility, or security testing tools and practices.\nExperience supporting Department of War, intelligence community, or other government software environments.\nDemonstrated ability to independently troubleshoot issues across application, database, and infrastructure components.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nCritical user workflows have dependable automated and manual test coverage, releases are supported by clear and actionable testing evidence, and development teams spend less time addressing escaped defects and unreliable tests. QA practices are consistent, automation is maintainable, and software quality is integrated throughout the development lifecycle rather than treated as a final release activity.\n\nCubic Pay Range:\n$130,000.00 - $153,000.00 + benefits.\nThe Cubic pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.\n\n\nWorker Type:\nEmployee\nWe are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. 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