Quality Assurance Engineer REMOTE

Quality Assurance Engineer Location: Remote Compensation: 65k-96k annual Clearance: Confidential The Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer is responsible for planning, executing, documenting, and reporting software testing activities throughout the Agile development lifecycle. The QA Engineer validates software functionality against approved requirements and acceptance criteria, develops and maintains automated test suites, performs accessibility and end-to-end testing, manages defects, and provides clear test results and quality metrics to project stakeholders. The QA Engineer works closely with Business Analysts, Developers, Project/Program Managers, and other stakeholders to identify defects, clarify requirements, validate fixes, maintain test traceability, and support delivery of high-quality software that meets functional, technical, accessibility, and regulatory requirements.

• Functional Testing Develop and maintain manual test cases based on approved requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional specifications. Execute functional testing for application features, enhancements, change requests, and defect fixes. Validate acceptance criteria against functionality deployed to designated test environments. Document test results, including pass/fail status, defects, and supporting evidence. Prepare test reports and validation documentation for project stakeholders and customer review. Coordinate with Business Analysts and Developers to identify and resolve ambiguous, incomplete, or non-testable requirements. Maintain traceability between requirements, acceptance criteria, test cases, defects, and test results.
• Automated Testing -Develop, maintain, and execute automated end-to-end (E2E) test suites using Cypress or comparable automation frameworks. -Integrate automated testing into the application's regression testing strategy. -Execute automated regression testing and document failures against applicable requirements and functional areas. -Develop automated test specifications aligned to requirements, user stories, or work item IDs for traceability. -Maintain automated test repositories and update test suites following approved requirement changes, defect fixes, and application enhancements. -Identify opportunities to increase automated test coverage and improve testing efficiency.
• Accessibility Testing -Perform accessibility testing for new and modified user-interface functionality. -Evaluate applications against Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility requirements, as applicable to the project. -Conduct accessibility testing using keyboard-only navigation, screen readers, and automated accessibility tools such as axe and Lighthouse. -Document accessibility defects with appropriate severity, reproduction information, and supporting evidence. -Coordinate with Developers and Business Analysts to validate accessibility remediation. -Maintain accessibility testing documentation and provide status information to project stakeholders.
• Defect Management and Work Item Tracking -Create, update, and track defect work items using Azure DevOps or comparable Agile project management tools. -Document complete reproduction steps, expected results, actual results, environment information, severity, and supporting evidence. -Participate in defect triage with Project/Program Managers, Business Analysts, Developers, and other stakeholders. -Track defects through resolution, regression testing, and closure. -Perform regression testing on resolved defects to verify corrective actions and identify potential impacts to existing functionality. -Reopen defects when fixes do not satisfy requirements or introduce additional issues. -Maintain QA metrics, including open, closed, reopened, and outstanding defects, for project reporting.
• Non-Functional Testing -Support performance, load, stress, and other non-functional testing activities as assigned. -Execute defined non-functional test scenarios under expected and peak usage conditions. -Document test results and identify degradation in response time, throughput, stability, or resource utilization. -Support development and maintenance of non-functional test plans and scenarios as application scope evolves.
• End-to-End and Integration Testing -Conduct end-to-end and integration testing across application components and user workflows. -Validate data flows between integrated systems, applications, services, and external interfaces. -Verify that data entered or modified through one application workflow is accurately reflected in applicable downstream functionality. -Develop and maintain E2E test suites and supporting test artifacts. -Maintain traceability between E2E test coverage and applicable requirements and work items. -Coordinate with Developers and Business Analysts to investigate integration defects and validate corrective actions.
• Agile / Sprint Participation -Participate in sprint planning and backlog refinement to evaluate work items for testability. -Identify missing, ambiguous, incomplete, or non-testable acceptance criteria. -Participate in daily standups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies. -Provide QA status, testing progress, defects, risks, dependencies, and blockers. -Contribute QA metrics and testing results to sprint summaries, project status reports, and quality reviews. -Collaborate with cross-functional team members to support sprint completion and release readiness.