{"id":2658702,"url":"https://alion.io/job/guidehouse-quality-assurance-system-tester-4","title":"Quality Assurance System Tester","company":{"id":4179,"name":"Guidehouse","domain":"guidehouse.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/guidehouse","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"services","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":82,"open_postings":102,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.706,"repost_share":0.039,"time_to_fill_p50_days":28,"computed_at":"2026-10-31T05:58:55Z"}},"role":"QA","role_family":"QA","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Tysons, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":94000,"max_usd":185000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":648},"experience_years_min":6,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Scrum","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"Azure","optional":true},{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":true},{"name":"Confluence","optional":true},{"name":"Cucumber","optional":true},{"name":"Cypress","optional":true},{"name":"Jira","optional":true},{"name":"JUnit","optional":true},{"name":"Playwright","optional":true},{"name":"Postman","optional":true},{"name":"Rest-Assured","optional":true},{"name":"Selenium","optional":true},{"name":"SQL","optional":true},{"name":"TestNG","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-15T23:52:31Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-15","last_verified_at":"2026-10-31T18:38:55Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":15,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":15},"description":"Job Family:\nTestingTravel Required:\nNoneClearance Required:\nAbility to Obtain Public TrustJob Description Summary\nThe Quality Assurance and Test Automation Lead will support a large-scale agile software development and platform modernization program supporting the GrantSolutions contract. This role will lead quality assurance strategy and execution while also standing up, implementing, and maturing the program’s automated test framework. The lead will define testing standards, establish reusable automation patterns, guide test coverage across application, API, integration, data, regression, and user acceptance testing, and work closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, developers, integration engineers, data teams, vendors, security teams, and Federal stakeholders to improve release confidence and reduce production risk.\nWhat You Will Do:\nWe are seeking a Quality Assurance and Test Automation Lead with strong hands-on experience in quality engineering, manual and automated testing, and test framework implementation to support a large-scale GrantSolutions platform modernization effort. This role will provide day-to-day QA leadership, establish the automation foundation, and ensure new and enhanced capabilities are reliable, secure, accessible, data-consistent, and ready for production release across complex application, API, data integration, and legacy system environments.\nThe Quality Assurance and Test Automation Lead will define test approaches, review and improve test artifacts, guide test execution, document and triage defects, verify fixes, and develop an automation framework that supports repeatable regression testing within the CI/CD process. This individual will mentor QA resources, coordinate with delivery teams, strengthen quality practices, improve test efficiency, and provide clear quality metrics and release readiness insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nPlan, design, execute, and document system, regression, smoke, integration, API, data validation, and user acceptance testing for a large-scale platform modernization program delivered through agile execution.\nStand up and mature the automated test framework, including tool selection support, framework architecture, coding standards, reusable libraries, test data strategy, execution patterns, reporting, and maintenance practices.\nAnalyze user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, interface specifications, API contracts, data mappings, and technical design documentation to define complete and traceable test coverage.\nPerform end-to-end testing across modernized application components, legacy system touchpoints, APIs, integrations, workflows, reports, data exchanges, and security-related access paths.\nSupport API and integration testing by validating request and response behavior, error handling, data transformation logic, authentication or authorization behavior, and downstream processing outcomes.\nDocument defects clearly with reproducible steps, expected and actual results, test evidence, severity, priority, environment details, and supporting screenshots or logs when appropriate.\nWork closely with developers, integration engineers, data teams, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, vendors, and security teams to triage defects, verify fixes, clarify requirements, and support release readiness decisions.\nIntegrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines where appropriate and lead automated test execution, results review, failure analysis, reporting, environment coordination, and continuous framework improvement.\nProvide QA leadership across modernization workstreams by mentoring testers, reviewing test cases and automation scripts, promoting consistent standards, coordinating cross-team test dependencies, and communicating quality risks and readiness recommendations.\nEstablish quality metrics and dashboards, including automation coverage, regression pass rates, defect trends, escaped defects, blocked tests, test execution progress, and release readiness indicators.\nSupport accessibility, security, performance, data quality, and operational readiness testing in coordination with specialized teams and approved program standards.\nContribute to continuous improvement of QA processes, test automation frameworks, defect management practices, test documentation, and release quality metrics.\n What You Will Need:\nMust be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD \"PUBLIC TRUST\"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.\nBachelor’s degree required.\nMinimum of Six (6) to Eight (8) years of experience in quality assurance, system testing, software testing, test automation, quality engineering, or related technical roles, including experience leading QA activities or test automation efforts.\nHands-on experience designing, executing, and documenting manual test cases for system, regression, integration, smoke, API, data validation, and user acceptance testing.\nHands-on experience designing, building, maintaining, and scaling automated test frameworks, automated test scripts, reusable test libraries, reporting mechanisms, and test execution approaches using modern automation tools or scripting languages.\nExperience providing technical leadership to QA resources, including reviewing test artifacts, coaching team members, defining standards, coordinating test execution, and communicating risks, dependencies, and readiness recommendations.\nExperience testing web-based applications, APIs, data integrations, workflows, reports, interfaces, and end-to-end business processes across multiple environments.\nExperience with defect tracking, test management, requirements traceability, test evidence capture, test data preparation, release validation, and defect retesting.\nUnderstanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), agile delivery, DevSecOps practices, version control, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and release management.\nFamiliarity with cloud-native application testing, containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes), and observability platforms.\nAbility to interpret user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, interface specifications, API contracts, data mappings, architecture guidance, and technical design documentation.\nAbility to troubleshoot test failures, isolate defects, analyze logs or test results, validate fixes, and communicate quality risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nStrong documentation skills, including the ability to maintain test strategies, test plans, test cases, automation design documentation, test scripts, traceability matrices, defect records, test evidence, quality metrics, and release readiness summaries.\nStrong leadership, problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with Product Owners, developers, integration engineers, data teams, vendors, security teams, QA resources, and business stakeholders.\nSelf-motivated, detail-oriented, and able to operate effectively in fast-paced, dynamic environments with competing testing priorities and release timelines.\nWhat Would Be Nice To Have:\nExperience supporting platform modernization initiatives within enterprise or government environments.\nExperience supporting federal or government IT programs involving legacy system modernization, shared services, interoperability, cloud adoption, data governance, or phased capability delivery.\nExperience selecting, configuring, or implementing test automation tools or frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Cucumber, Postman/Newman, REST Assured, JUnit, TestNG, or similar tools.\nExperience with test management, defect tracking, and agile delivery tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Zephyr, qTest, Confluence, or similar platforms.\nFamiliarity with AWS cloud environments, API testing, database validation, SQL queries, data integration testing, accessibility testing, security testing, performance testing, or observability tools.\nQuality, agile, testing, automation, cloud, or security certification preferred, such as ISTQB, Certified ScrumMaster, SAFe, AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS Developer - Associate Security+, or similar credentials.\nKnowledge of AI-assisted test design techniques to achieve comprehensive functional, regression, API, and end-to-end test coverage while reducing manual effort. \n What We Offer:\nGuidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.\nBenefits include:\nMedical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance\n\nPersonal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays\n\nParental Leave\n\n401(k) Retirement Plan\n\nGroup Term Life and Travel Assistance\n\nVoluntary Life and AD&D Insurance\n\nHealth Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts\n\nTransit and Parking Commuter Benefits\n\nShort-Term & Long-Term Disability\n\nTuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities\n\nEmployee Referral Program\n\nCorporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach\n\nCare.com annual membership\n\nEmployee Assistance Program\n\nSupplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)\n\nPosition may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus\n\nAbout Guidehouse\nGuidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer-Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.\nGuidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.\nIf you have visited our website for information about employment opportunities, or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Guidehouse Recruiting at 1-571-633-1711 or via email at . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodation.\nAll communication regarding recruitment for a Guidehouse position will be sent from Guidehouse email domains including @guidehouse.com or . Correspondence received by an applicant from any other domain should be considered unauthorized and will not be honored by Guidehouse. Note that Guidehouse will never charge a fee or require a money transfer at any stage of the recruitment process and does not collect fees from educational institutions for participation in a recruitment event. Never provide your banking information to a third party purporting to need that information to proceed in the hiring process.\nIf any person or organization demands money related to a job opportunity with Guidehouse, please report the matter to Guidehouse’s Ethics Hotline. If you want to check the validity of correspondence you have received, please contact . Guidehouse is not responsible for losses incurred (monetary or otherwise) from an applicant’s dealings with unauthorized third parties.\nGuidehouse does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Guidehouse and Guidehouse will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.","description_format":"text","description_chars":11545,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":6,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Parental leave","Retirement plans","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Digital Government","IT Consulting & Digital Transformation","Management Consulting"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-15T23:52:31Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 24 · green card filings: 14","filings_12m":24,"filings_prev_12m":23,"green_card_filings_12m":14,"median_offered_wage_usd":132500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-29T16:27:21+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":1}],"liveness":{"score":57,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.629,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":15,"expected_fill_days":28,"reasons":["conf:0","stale_co","velocity","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-31T05:58:55Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/guidehouse-quality-assurance-system-tester-4","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/guidehouse-quality-assurance-system-tester-4.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-31T22:39:29Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":35353,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-01T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4179},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4179"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fguidehouse-quality-assurance-system-tester-4"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fguidehouse-quality-assurance-system-tester-4"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fguidehouse-quality-assurance-system-tester-4"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/guidehouse-quality-assurance-system-tester-4\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fguidehouse-quality-assurance-system-tester-4"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":2658702}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"guidehouse.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":2658702},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}