Mid-Level QA Tester - AWS, Java & Automation

WorqStrap; McLean, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental & Vision

401(k)

Job summary

Guidehouse seeks a Mid-Level Software Quality Assurance Tester to support a large-scale government modernization program. You will plan, execute, and document manual and automated testing of Java-based applications hosted in AWS, translating user stories into test scenarios and building reusable automated tests for stability and reliability.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 4 years of QA experience, with hands-on testing of Java apps, APIs, and data flows in AWS environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• FOUR (4) years of experience in software quality assurance, application testing, system testing, or a related technical role.
• Hands-on experience testing Java-based web applications, services, APIs, integrations, and data flows.
• Hands-on experience developing, maintaining, executing, and troubleshooting automated tests using one or more automated testing tools or frameworks.
• Experience creating reusable automated test components, managing test data and locators, applying validations, and interpreting automated test results.
• Experience testing applications deployed in AWS environments and working with cloud-hosted application components, APIs, databases, logs, and multiple test environments.
• Hands-on experience creating and executing functional, system, regression, integration, API, smoke, database, data validation, and user acceptance tests.
• Experience with defect tracking, test management, requirements traceability, test evidence, test data preparation, and defect retesting.
• Working knowledge of the software development lifecycle, agile delivery, DevSecOps concepts, version control, AWS-based CI/CD pipelines, and release management.
• Ability to interpret Java application behavior, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, API contracts, data mappings, and technical design documentation.
• Ability to troubleshoot test failures, analyze automated test execution results and application or AWS logs, isolate defects, and clearly communicate findings and quality risks.
• Strong documentation, analytical, collaboration, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage assigned testing responsibilities with moderate supervision in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities and release timelines.

Responsibilities

• Review user stories, acceptance criteria, Java application designs, API specifications, data mappings, and AWS environment documentation to identify test conditions and expected results.
• Create, execute, and maintain manual test cases for functional, system, regression, smoke, integration, API, database, data validation, and user acceptance testing.
• Develop, enhance, and maintain automated test scripts, reusable components, test data, locators, and regression suites using appropriate automated testing tools.
• Use automated testing tools to test web user interfaces, REST or SOAP APIs, databases, and end-to-end business processes, as applicable.
• Execute automated tests across AWS-hosted test environments; analyze results, logs, screenshots, and execution evidence; troubleshoot failures; and maintain tests as the Java applications evolve.
• Test Java-based application components and their interactions with AWS services, APIs, databases, authentication services, data exchanges, legacy systems, workflows, reports, and downstream systems.
• Validate application behavior across AWS environments and use available application, cloud, and pipeline logs to support defect isolation and root-cause analysis.
• Prepare and manage test data, capture test evidence, maintain requirements traceability, and document testing outcomes.
• Log defects with clear reproduction steps, expected and actual results, severity, AWS environment details, and supporting evidence; participate in defect triage and verify fixes.
• Collaborate with Java developers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, AWS and DevSecOps engineers, integration and data teams, security specialists, vendors, and business stakeholders throughout the sprint and release lifecycle.
• Support automated test execution in CI/CD pipelines, scheduled regression runs, and release validation; investigate failures and improve test reliability with senior QA and DevSecOps staff.
• Contribute to test estimates, sprint planning, test coverage reviews, release-readiness assessments, quality metrics, and continuous improvement of AWS and automated testing practices.

Skills

Java testing

AWS testing

Automation testing

Defect tracking

Agile/DevSecOps

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Subject7

Jira

Confluence

Git

Jenkins

AWS CodePipeline

Azure DevOps

Job description

Guidehouse seeks a Mid-Level Software Quality Assurance Tester to support a large-scale government modernization program. You will plan, execute, and document manual and automated testing of Java-based applications hosted in AWS, translating user stories into test scenarios and building reusable automated tests for stability and reliability.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 4 years of QA experience, with hands-on testing of Java apps, APIs, and data flows in AWS environments.