Quality Assurance Analyst I

Dunhill Professional Search & Government Solutions; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 72,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

Dunhill Professional Search & Government Solutions is seeking a Software Quality Assurance professional to design risk-based test strategies, create test data, and ensure traceability to requirements. The role emphasizes API testing and test automation across multiple environments.

You will validate service behavior, authentication/authorization handling, and data integrity while integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years in software QA, testing, or related IT disciplines.
• Experience creating test plans, test cases, scripts, regression suites, and defect reports across the SDLC.
• Experience performing functional, integration, regression, and API testing for web-based apps/services.
• Ability to document, track, and retest defects with clear evidence and stakeholder communication.
• US Citizenship and the ability to pass a federal background investigation.

Responsibilities

• Design risk-based test approaches, test cases, test data, and traceability artifacts aligned to requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and dependencies.
• Perform API testing to validate service behavior, structures, auth handling, error conditions, data integrity, and workflows.
• Execute smoke, regression, functional, exploratory, and security-focused testing across environments.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines; analyze results, logs, and reports to isolate failures and support remediation.
• Identify, document, prioritize, and retest defects with clear reproduction steps and business impact.
• Support test-environment readiness by validating configurations, test-account access, and data setup or masking.
• Participate in peer reviews, defect triage, requirements refinement, and release-readiness activities to improve quality.

Skills

API testing

Test automation

CI/CD

Test planning

Defect analysis

Communication

Security testing

Education

Bachelor’s in CS/related

Job description

Responsibilities

• Design risk-based test approaches, test cases, test data, and traceability artifacts aligned to functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and integration dependencies.
• Perform API testing to validate service behavior, request and response structures, authentication and authorization handling, error conditions, data integrity, and integration workflows.
• Execute smoke, regression, functional, exploratory, and security-focused testing across development, test, staging, and production-like environments.
• Integrate automated tests into continuous integration and delivery pipelines; analyze test results, screenshots, logs, traces, and test reports to isolate failures and support timely remediation.
• Identify, document, prioritize, and retest software defects with clear reproduction steps, expected versus actual results, supporting evidence, business impact, and release-risk context.
• Support test-environment readiness by validating configurations, coordinating test-account access and test-data setup or masking, and escalating environment or dependency issues.
• Participate in peer code and test-automation reviews, defect triage, requirements refinement, and release-readiness activities to improve test coverage, maintainability, reliability, and software quality.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• At least 3 years of progressively responsible experience in software quality assurance, software testing, test automation, requirements analysis, programming, or related information technology disciplines.
• Experience creating and executing test plans, test cases, test scripts, regression suites, and defect reports across the software development lifecycle.
• Experience performing functional, integration, regression, and API testing for web-based applications and services.
• Ability to identify, document, track, and retest defects using clear evidence and effective communication with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• US Citizenship and the ability to pass a federal background investigation in order to be granted access to sensitive information.

Preferred

• ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level, Certified Selenium Tester, or comparable software testing certification.
• Experience integrating automated test suites with continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, version-control tools, test-management platforms, and defect-tracking tools.
• Experience testing applications in a highly regulated federal environment with formal documentation, auditability, security controls, and release processes.
• Familiarity with secure testing practices related to input handling, session management, access controls, authentication, authorization, and insecure service interactions.

Compensation

$72,000 - $89,300 per year