Senior Functional Tester - TS Clearance | Federal-Ready QA

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

Job summary

Applied Information Sciences in Washington, DC seeks a Senior QA Engineer to join our client-focused team as a Functional Tester. This role requires planning, executing, and documenting functional, regression, and smoke tests on a modern services-based application environment, with emphasis on traceability and quality.

Active Top Secret Clearance is required. You will translate requirements into repeatable test cases, support API testing with Swagger/OpenAPI, and contribute to automated testing

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret Clearance is required.
• 5+ years of testing experience.
• 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.

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.

Skills

Automation frameworks

Scripting languages

Security testing

Test management

CI/CD integration

Tools

Jira

Swagger/OpenAPI

Job description

Applied Information Sciences in Washington, DC seeks a Senior QA Engineer to join our client-focused team as a Functional Tester. This role requires planning, executing, and documenting functional, regression, and smoke tests on a modern services-based application environment, with emphasis on traceability and quality.

Active Top Secret Clearance is required. You will translate requirements into repeatable test cases, support API testing with Swagger/OpenAPI, and contribute to automated testing