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You will work in an Agile team alongside developers and DevOps across the full software development lifecycle, maintaining automation in CI/CD and tracking plans and defects in Jira.\nThis position is hybrid remote and requires 2 days on-site in Sterling, VA per week.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign, build, and maintain automated test scripts that verify functionality, security, and usability across API, service, and UI layers.\nDevelop and test C#, Python code as project requirements dictate.\nImplement automated integration, regression, functional, and system tests during feature development.\nPerform manual and exploratory testing of integrated hardware and software systems - including LPR, biometric/facial recognition, and RFID devices - validating read accuracy, correlation to the correct vehicle or transaction, and behavior under real and adverse conditions.\nReproduce field and edge conditions (device faults, dropped, duplicate, or out-of-order messages, timing skew, degraded inputs) and confirm graceful end-to-end handling.\nDevelop and maintain test plans and test cases; 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