QA, Security & 508 Tester + Business Analyst

NuAxis Innovations; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

NuAxis Innovations is seeking a talented Tester (QA / Security / 508) + Business Analyst for a full-time, hybrid role in Washington, DC. You will elicit and document business requirements, define acceptance criteria, and verify software across functional, security, and accessibility dimensions.

Responsibilities include writing test plans, executing tests, performing Section 508/WCAG validation, supporting security testing, and maintaining traceability in Jira/Confluence.

Qualifications

• 6+ years combining business analysis and software QA on enterprise web apps.
• Strong requirements elicitation, user story writing, and acceptance criteria in Agile teams.
• Hands-on functional, regression, and integration test design and execution.
• Section 508 / WCAG testing with NVDA/JAWS and tooling (ANDI, axe).
• Familiarity with security testing concepts and basic vulnerability triage.
• SQL data validation and API testing with Postman.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyze, and document business requirements; write testable acceptance criteria.
• Model current and future business processes; identify gaps and edge cases.
• Build and execute test plans and cases traceable to requirements.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, and UAT testing across releases.
• Validate accessibility (Section 508 / WCAG 2.1 AA) and security testing evidence.
• Manage defects in Jira; report quality metrics and release readiness.
• Coordinate stakeholder demos and UAT; maintain regression tests with Cypress.
• Translate non-functional requirements into explicit criteria and coverage.
• Maintain end-to-end traceability in Jira/Confluence.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

User story writing

Agile testing

Written communication

SQL for data validation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems/CS

Tools

Cypress

GitLab CI/CD

Postman

NVDA

JAWS

ANDI

axe

Job description

NuAxis Innovations is seeking a talented Tester (QA / Security / 508) + Business Analyst for a full-time, hybrid role in Washington, DC. You will elicit and document business requirements, define acceptance criteria, and verify software across functional, security, and accessibility dimensions.

Responsibilities include writing test plans, executing tests, performing Section 508/WCAG validation, supporting security testing, and maintaining traceability in Jira/Confluence.