Senior Functional Tester - TS Clearance, API & Automation

Applied Information Sciences, Inc; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 97,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salaries

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Health Insurance (Medical, Dental, Vis

Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

401(k) Retirement Plan (5% match)

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

AIS is seeking a Senior QA Engineer in Washington, DC to lead testing for a modern services-based environment. You will plan, execute, and document functional, regression, and smoke tests, ensuring traceability to requirements and acceptance criteria.

Role emphasizes API testing, Swagger/OpenAPI usage, and collaboration with product and engineering teams. Top Secret clearance and 5+ years of testing experience are required. AIS supports growth and employee ownership.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret Clearance is required.
• 5+ years of testing experience recommended.
• Experience performing functional, regression, and smoke testing.
• Familiarity with API testing, Swagger/OpenAPI, and basic automated testing concepts.
• Understanding of Agile delivery and iterative testing approaches.
• Ability to translate acceptance criteria and requirements into clean, repeatable test cases.

Responsibilities

• Execute requirement‑level functional tests, smoke tests, and regression test cycles.
• Create, document, and maintain test cases, test data, and test results in Jira or similar tools.
• Validate defects, isolate issues, reproduce failures, and coordinate retest activities.
• Ensure adherence to 508 accessibility requirements.
• Support automated testing efforts where possible (API testing tools, Swagger/OpenAPI validation, unit test review).
• Ensure end‑to‑end traceability between requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and test cases.
• Participate in backlog refinement and requirement clarification sessions with the Product Owner and Business Analysts.
• Provide feedback to developers and product staff regarding system behavior, edge cases, and risk areas.
• Support integration testing and verification of data flows across services as needed.

Skills

Automation frameworks

Scripting languages

Security testing

Test management

CI/CD integration

Tools

Swagger/OpenAPI

API testing tools

Unit testing

Job description

AIS is seeking a Senior QA Engineer in Washington, DC to lead testing for a modern services-based environment. You will plan, execute, and document functional, regression, and smoke tests, ensuring traceability to requirements and acceptance criteria.

Role emphasizes API testing, Swagger/OpenAPI usage, and collaboration with product and engineering teams. Top Secret clearance and 5+ years of testing experience are required. AIS supports growth and employee ownership.