Remote QA Engineer - Manual & Automation Testing

Peraton; Herndon (VA); Remote; USD 86,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Quality Assurance Tester/Test Engineer to support Department of War (DoW) applications modernization and cloud migration. The role is 100% remote and involves testing across Agile cycles, DevSecOps pipelines, and security compliance.

You will develop and execute unit, regression, security, and acceptance tests; manage traceability and test cases; validate data flows, API integrations, and incremental deployments, with emphasis on Zero Trust and RMF controls.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of QA/testing experience with a BS/BA degree or 3 years with an MS/MA degree.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks such as Selenium, JUnit, and utPLSQL.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred) and security testing tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute unit tests, regression tests, security tests, and acceptance tests for all user stories.
• Managing RITM (Requirements Traceability Matrix) and writing required manual/automated test cases
• Maintain documented testing tasks for each closed and deployed user story.
• Validate user story functionality aligns with functional and technical requirements (including Zero Trust, RMF, audit logging).
• Build, run, and maintain automated tests within GitLab pipelines using customer approved tools.
• Ensure automated testing gates (SAST/DAST/QA checks) are enforced prior to code promotion.
• Support integration testing to ensure new modules work with legacy components during Strangler Pattern migration.
• Validate data flows, orchestration behavior, and module interactions during incremental deployments.
• Perform release-level testing for combined deployments staged for production.
• Ensure release testing follows the Release Test Strategy and IMS timelines.
• Perform security testing, static/dynamic scans, Zero Trust validation, and vulnerability assessments.
• Support Security Control Assessments (SCA/EDSCA), FISMA/FedRAMP testing requirements, and Zero Trust validation.
• Validate data mapping between legacy DRAS systems and consolidated DRASM database; test ETL processes.

Skills

Agile testing practices

DevSecOps familiarity

RMF familiarity

Zero Trust awareness

API testing experience

Education

BS/BA in related field

MS/MA in related field

Tools

Selenium

JUnit

utPLSQL

Fortify SCA

Fortify WebInspect

LoadRunner

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Quality Assurance Tester/Test Engineer to support Department of War (DoW) applications modernization and cloud migration. The role is 100% remote and involves testing across Agile cycles, DevSecOps pipelines, and security compliance.

You will develop and execute unit, regression, security, and acceptance tests; manage traceability and test cases; validate data flows, API integrations, and incremental deployments, with emphasis on Zero Trust and RMF controls.