Secret-Cleared QA Test Engineer - Appian & API Focus

Koniag Government Services; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Life and disability insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Commuter benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Tuknik Government Services, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking a QA Test Engineer with a Secret security clearance to support our government customer in the DC Metro area. The role focuses on turning requirements into government-visible evidence across Appian logic, APIs, workflows, and security configurations.

Responsibilities include developing test strategies, executing diverse testing types, and coordinating with stakeholders to ensure acceptance and release readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field; additional relevant experience may substitute for education.
• Four or more years of software quality assurance and test experience for enterprise web or workflow applications.
• Experience with manual and automated functional testing, defect management, requirements traceability, test data, and release evidence.
• Working knowledge of APIs, relational data, role-based security, accessibility, and Agile/DevSecOps delivery.
• U.S. citizenship and the active security clearance or eligibility required for the assigned work by the start of performance, with ongoing eligibility thereafter.
• Ability to communicate clearly with Government, technical, and business stakeholders and to maintain accurate work records in approved systems.
• Ability to protect Controlled Unclassified Information and classified information, when assigned, and comply with required access, training, and handling procedures.
• Experience testing Appian applications with FitNesse, Selenium/WebDriver, Postman, SoapUI, Cypress, or comparable tools.
• Experience validating Federal acquisition, financial, records-management, or other audit-sensitive workflows.
• ISTQB, Appian, accessibility, or Agile testing certification.

Responsibilities

• Develop test strategies, plans, cases, data, expected results, traceability, and execution schedules for changes and migration waves.
• Test Appian expression rules, application logic, interfaces, Record Types, process models, security groups, and business workflows.
• Assess and reuse Government-furnished FitNesse/Selenium assets before creating replacement or supplemental regression tests.
• Execute smoke, functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, negative, accessibility, role-based access, and user-acceptance testing.
• Validate APIs, authentication, schemas, transformations, error handling, and external interface behavior using approved tools.
• Verify migration reconciliation, document-to-record relationships, calculations, permissions, audit history, and reporting parity.
• Record defects with reproducible evidence, severity, expected behavior, affected requirements, and retest results.
• Maintain test evidence and release-readiness status in Government-approved repositories and dashboards.
• Support deployment verification, rollback testing, production observation, and escaped-defect analysis.
• Coordinate with users, developers, security specialists, and the Government Product Owner to confirm acceptance.

Skills

QA testing

API testing

Agile/DevSecOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

FitNesse

Selenium/WebDriver

Postman

SoapUI

Cypress

Job description

Tuknik Government Services, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking a QA Test Engineer with a Secret security clearance to support our government customer in the DC Metro area. The role focuses on turning requirements into government-visible evidence across Appian logic, APIs, workflows, and security configurations.

Responsibilities include developing test strategies, executing diverse testing types, and coordinating with stakeholders to ensure acceptance and release readiness.