Quality Assurance Engineer - Mid with Security Clearance

Quality Assurance Engineer - Mid Education and Years of Experience: Bachelor’s Degree and 5+ years or more experience Program Description: Provide the government customer information technology (IT) services and technical expertise to support a thoughtful transition from team-level Scrum agile methodology to Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). The Contractor will support both the operational transition and ongoing development activities, ensuring continuity of delivery while establishing SAFe practices, structures, and governance. Additional information about the SAFe framework can be found at SAFe 6.0 (scaledagileframework.com). In addition, we will assist the government customer with the design, architecture and implementation of a secure application development environment (ADV) specifically engineered to accelerate the organization’s SAFe transformation. This environment must integrate automated security controls directly into the Continuous Delivery Pipeline and prioritize developer productivity and autonomy. Furthermore, the ADV must enable Zero Trust architecture that scales across distributed teams without compromising the Lean-Agile mindset. The program will support the following activities: SAFe implementation, software development/enhancement/deployment, O&M, and information & system security. Location: This position will be on-site in Winchester, VA. Clearance: Top Secret with ability to get SCI Responsibilities: The Quality Assurance Engineer – Mid supports software quality assurance activities. This role is responsible for creating and executing software tests, automating test cases, validating defects, and supporting release readiness across systems and related application development efforts. The position supports a SAFe Agile environment where quality is built into the development lifecycle through test automation, defect tracking, peer review, functional and performance testing, and support for IV&V and UAT activities. Implement automation for cloud resources using DevSecOps best practices. • Develop, execute, and maintain software test cases, test scripts, and automated testing approaches. • Perform application testing, validate bugs, isolate issues, and document results in the designated ticketing or work-tracking system. • Support functional, regression, integration, performance, IV&V, and UAT testing activities. Track defects, support root cause analysis, and verify resolution of issues identified by testers, code reviewers, automated tools, or CI/CD pipeline activities. • Support quality assurance activities tied to SAFe metrics, PI objectives, Definition of Done, user story acceptance criteria, and release readiness. • Assist with configuration management, change management, and release management activities. Support testing and validation of system enhancements, modernization efforts, and microservice-based capabilities. Required Skills: • Bachelor’s Degree and 5+ years or more of experience • Minimum 5 years of relevant quality assurance, software testing, or application testing experience. • Experience creating test cases, executing test scripts, validating defects, and documenting test outcomes. • Familiarity with Agile or SAFe delivery environments, user stories, acceptance criteria, sprint/iteration testing, and release validation. • Experience supporting automated and manual testing across web, cloud, or enterprise application environments. • Ability to analyze system defects, isolate issues, and communicate quality findings clearly to technical teams. • Ability to work within configuration, change, and release management processes. • Active Top Secret clearance with ability to obtain SCI Preferred Skills • Experience supporting AWS, microservices, DevSecOps, CI/CD, or cloud-based application testing. • Experience with Jira, Confluence, GitLab, Azure DevOps, or similar Agile lifecycle management tools. • Experience supporting IV&V, UAT, test automation, quality gates, and defect trend reporting. • Familiarity with federal IT security and software development environments. • Experience supporting data integrity, vetting systems, or mission-critical applications. Organizational Skills: Can plan and prioritize work. Follows tasks to their logical conclusion and makes sure that everything has been done to the right standard. Good attention to detail. Team Work: Able to enthuse and maintain project interest. Comfortable working both individually and as part of a team. Prepared to challenge ideas within a group in a constructive way. Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently to team members and clients, verbally and in writing. Able to present ideas in a variety of ways depending upon audience and context. Excellent active listening skills. Quantitative Management: Ability to determine process measures and track to determine process effectiveness and efficiency. Problem Solving: Ability to analyze problems and determine root cause, generating alternatives, evaluating and selecting alternatives and implementing solutions. Results oriented: Able to drive things forward regardless of personal interest in the task.