Quality Assurance Specialist

Avum Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in IT Services seeks a Quality Assurance Specialist to enhance their testing strategies for complex systems. The successful candidate will be involved in every phase of the QA process, ensuring the delivery of high-quality software solutions to meet client requirements. Ideal candidates will possess a strong background in QA methodologies, with experience in writing automated tests and a good understanding of the SDLC process. This fully remote role requires a proactive individual with excellent communication skills and the ability to work independently across various teams.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Qualifications

• 1-8+ years experience in Quality Assurance roles.
• Experience with various technology stacks such as Java, AWS.
• Ability to write SQL queries for testing.

Responsibilities

• Write and execute comprehensive test cases and support diverse testing activities.
• Conduct risk assessments and ensure compliance with requirements.
• Train and mentor junior QA resources.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Test Planning

Defect Analysis

Proficiency in Selenium

Relational Database Management

Agile Methodologies

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or related field

Tools

Selenium

Postman

Jira

Job description

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$70,000.00/yr - $155,000.00/yr

Avum is hiring quality assurance specialists/testers at all experience and skill levels. As a Quality Assurance Specialist / Tester at Avum, you will be integral to implementing and advancing the quality testing strategy for large-scale, multi-system projects. You will be responsible for writing and executing comprehensive test cases, coordinating testing efforts, and ensuring the adoption of best practices throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). This role requires a proactive, self-starting individual with a strong team ethic, a solutions-focused mindset, and proven experience in complex system architectures. You will be expected to rapidly acquire expertise in the Department of Defense (DoD) electronic Procure-to-Pay (P2P) environment.

• Junior position: Assisting and supporting with tasks like writing test cases, debugging and documenting defects, and participating in training.
• Mid-level position: Besides junior responsibilities, you will complete risk assessments and communicate results. You will serve as QA point-of-contact for pre-release signoff procedures and ensure broader adherence to compliance/regulatory requirements.
• Senior position: Leads testing activities, documents and assesses Test Entrance and Exit Criteria, assists other teams with evaluating and integrating applications/environments/processes, provides measurable assessment of QA efforts and recommends process changes, and serves as backup to the Government QA Lead.

What You'll Be Doing (Comensurate with level):

• Develop, implement, and refine quality assurance methodologies and testing strategies.
• Write, execute, and maintain test plans, test cases, test scripts, and test data for various testing phases.
• Test and troubleshoot code using complex industry programs and practices to detect quality issues with functionality and performance.
• Support and potentially lead contractor and government personnel in diverse testing activities, including Test Readiness Reviews (TRR), Regression Testing, Functional Testing, System Level Developmental Testing (DT), Cybersecurity Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Interface/API Testing, Integration Testing, Smoke Testing, Unit Testing, Performance/Load Testing, and Compliance Testing.
• Review and analyze business and technical requirements to define comprehensive testing needs and ensure complete coverage.
• Conduct risk and impact analysis, promptly escalating issues threatening project timelines or quality.
• Consult with QA/Test Leads, QA colleagues, development teams, analysts, and end-users to ensure application systems meet all functional, end-user, and compliance/regulatory requirements.
• Proactively communicate project status, testing efforts, impediments, and task-specific updates to project team members and QA leadership.
• Complete risk assessments and communicate results throughout the development cycle, potentially as a QA point-of-contact for pre-release signoff procedures.
• Create and maintain thorough documentation related to organizational and project testing efforts (e.g., test plans, test cases, test results, traceability matrices).
• Represent QA in project meetings, collaborating effectively with team members and contributing to discussions with a solution-focused approach.
• Train and mentor junior QA resources.
• Stay current with new testing tools and test strategies.

What You Will Need (Comensurate with level):

• Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college or university in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field, or an applicable training certificate.
• Demonstrable experience (1 - 8+ years, commensurate with specific leveling) in Quality Assurance roles within a project team.
• Proven experience with test planning, test case design and management, and defect analysis across various technology stacks (e.g., Java, Oracle, Appian, AWS, MarkLogic).
• Recent and relevant experience identifying and executing functional and regression test cases to verify business and technical requirements.
• Proficiency with testing software such as Selenium, Cucumber, and Postman.
• Experience with relational database systems, including the ability to write SQL queries for testing and data validation.
• Strong ability to critically review project documentation (requirements, design documents) and identify QA needs and potential risks.
• Excellent capability to proactively identify, articulate, and help resolve issues and obstacles, and report on overall project status.
• Experience working with project management tools (e.g., Jira).
• Familiarity and experience with projects utilizing agile methodologies (specifically SAFe & Scrum).
• Experience supporting an Agile Testing Approach, including the use of Agile Testing Quadrants.
• It is highly desirable to have the capability in Design of Experiments (DOE) to plan, conduct, analyze, and interpret controlled tests.
• Experience writing automated tests within a Selenium-supported framework is a strong plus.
• Familiarity with continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) environments (experience with Jenkins, AWS is a plus).
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills that foster a team-focused, success-oriented environment.
• Self-directed with a proven ability to manage deadlines, prioritize tasks effectively, and work independently.
• Must be a U.S. citizen and able to pass a T3 background investigation.

If You Have This, It’s A Plus:

• Experience with government procurement systems is a significant advantage.
• A US government clearance of public trust or higher.

Location:

The candidate must interact and coordinate remotely with external project team members and other Avum employees. As a remote employee, the candidate will not have a permanent office or desk space but may be required to attend in-person meetings. This may require travel to government sites in Washington, D.C., and the Avum office in Agoura Hills, California. Our priority is acquiring the most qualified candidate to satisfactorily perform the required tasks, including team collaboration, regardless of the candidate’s geographical location.

NOTE: This fully remote role requires the candidate to participate in meetings virtually using tools like Microsoft Teams. Online availability will be needed during the core Eastern Standard Time (EST) hours, Monday through Friday.

About Avum:

Avum, Inc. is a certified small-disadvantaged business that provides advanced software, database, and business intelligence systems to the DoD/military, intelligence community, and federal, state, local, and commercial clients since 1991. We manage technical programs and projects and provide strategic guidance to support our customers’ system engineering efforts. We provide sustainment in mission-critical and secure environments. We support information assurance activities and accreditation for the systems we deploy. Our engineers conduct rapid prototyping and Agile customer-focused iterations to produce complex applications, predictive analytic data environments, and NIST SP 800-53 compliant system architecture deployed within Navy and DoD networks. We have subject matter experts in multiple domains and technical expertise across all core technology stacks. We specialize in application development, large-scale database design, data engineering, and data visualization. Through results-driven, agile collaboration, the company continually researches and deploys secure solutions that exceed customer expectations in meeting or beating customer-allocated budgets and schedules. We aspire to the highest standards of ethical behavior and professional integrity in providing our customers service that consistently earns us the highest possible performance ratings.

Avum, Inc. does not discriminate based on race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other reason prohibited by law in providing employment opportunities and benefits.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Quality Assurance and Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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