{"id":3115937,"url":"https://alion.io/job/guidehouse-quality-assurance-system-tester-5","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":99,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.707,"repost_share":0.01,"time_to_fill_p50_days":28,"computed_at":"2026-10-26T05:57:25Z"}},"role":"QA","role_family":"QA","seniority":"middle","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Bethesda, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":87100,"max":130700,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":130700},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":4,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Scrum","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"Confluence","optional":true},{"name":"Cypress","optional":true},{"name":"Git","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":"2026-10-22T22:05:58Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-22","last_verified_at":"2026-10-27T03:59:44Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":4,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":4},"description":"Job Family:\nSoftware Engineering (STE)Travel Required:\nUp to 10%Clearance Required:\nAbility to Obtain Public TrustThe Quality Assurance System Tester will support a large-scale agile software development program for the Federal Health contract, including both new software capabilities and ongoing support for legacy system functionality. This role will be embedded with software delivery teams to validate application features, integrations, data flows, legacy touchpoints, and release packages throughout the software development lifecycle. The tester will design and execute manual and automated tests, support developer-led quality practices, analyze defects, verify code changes, and help ensure that new and existing system capabilities meet functional, technical, security, accessibility, and operational requirements before production release.\nWhat You Will Do:\nWe are seeking a Quality Assurance System Tester with strong software testing, test automation, and application validation experience to support the Federal Health software delivery environment. This role will work directly with developers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, integration engineers, data teams, DevSecOps engineers, vendors, and Federal stakeholders to verify that new software capabilities and supported legacy functionality are reliable, secure, accessible, data-consistent, and ready for incremental release.\nThe Quality Assurance System Tester will participate across the SDLC by reviewing user stories and technical designs, developing test scenarios, validating software behavior, supporting application and data testing, documenting and retesting defects, and contributing to automated regression testing within CI/CD pipelines. This individual will help strengthen engineering quality, improve release confidence, and reduce production risk across new application components, existing legacy functionality, and system integrations.\nParticipate throughout the software development lifecycle by reviewing user stories, acceptance criteria, technical designs, data mappings, interface specifications, and release plans to define complete and traceable test coverage. \nDesign, execute, and maintain manual and automated test cases for application features, integrations, workflows, reports, database changes, regression scenarios, smoke testing, and user acceptance testing. \nDevelop and maintain automated test scripts, test suites, reusable test data, and regression assets that can be executed consistently across development, test, staging, and release environments. \nPerform end-to-end software testing across new application components, supported legacy system functionality, data exchanges, background jobs, user workflows, reporting outputs, and role-based access paths. \nSupport integration and database testing by validating data persistence, data transformation logic, error handling, access 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. \nCollaborate closely with developers during sprint execution to reproduce defects, analyze logs or test results, validate fixes, clarify expected software behavior, and support code promotion and release readiness decisions. \nIntegrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines where appropriate and support automated test execution, results review, failure analysis, test environment coordination, and maintenance of reusable test data. \nSupport accessibility, security, performance, data quality, and operational readiness testing in coordination with specialized teams and approved program standards. \nContribute to continuous improvement of software quality practices, test automation frameworks, defect management, traceability, release validation, and engineering quality metrics.\nWhat 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 FOUR (4) years of experience in software quality assurance, software testing, application testing, test automation, systems testing, or related software development lifecycle roles. \nHands-on experience designing, executing, and documenting test cases for application features, integrations, database changes, workflows, regression testing, smoke testing, and user acceptance testing. \nHands-on experience developing, maintaining, and executing automated test scripts using test automation tools, frameworks, scripting languages, or code-based testing approaches. \nExperience testing web-based applications, data integrations, interfaces, reports, background processes, and end-to-end business workflows across multiple software 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 lifecycle, agile delivery, DevSecOps practices, version control, branching and merging concepts, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and release management. \nAbility to interpret user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, interface specifications, data mappings, architecture guidance, and technical design documentation. \nAbility to troubleshoot test failures, isolate defects, analyze logs, query data when needed, validate fixes, and communicate software quality risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders. \nStrong documentation skills, including the ability to maintain test plans, test cases, test scripts, traceability matrices, defect records, test evidence, and release readiness summaries. \nStrong problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively as part of a software delivery team that includes Product Owners, developers, integration engineers, data teams, DevSecOps engineers, vendors, security teams, 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 software development initiatives that include both new application capabilities and ongoing validation of legacy system functionality within enterprise or government environments. \nExperience supporting federal or government IT programs involving legacy systems, shared services, interoperability, cloud environments, data governance, system integrations, or phased capability delivery. \nExperience with 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, Subject 7, Confluence, or similar platforms. \nFamiliarity with AWS cloud environments, SQL/database validation, data integration testing, accessibility testing, security testing, performance testing, logging, monitoring, or observability tools. \nExposure to Git-based workflows, pull request validation, build verification, unit test awareness, static analysis results, or other engineering practices that support software quality. \nQuality, agile, testing, automation, cloud, or security certification preferred, such as ISTQB, Certified ScrumMaster, SAFe, AWS Cloud Practitioner, Security+, or similar credentials.\nThe annual salary range for this position is $87,100.00-$130,700.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. 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. 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