Senior QA Engineer — Remote, Full Lifecycle Testing

PLANIT Group; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

PLANIT Group in Reston, VA is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer for a remote-capable role, with on-site flexibility. You will review requirements, design and execute test cases, perform regression testing, log defects, and validate deployments across staging and production.

Candidates should have eight years of software QA/field experience, a degree in software engineering or CS preferred, and strong communication.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of software QA/related experience.
• Degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science preferred.
• Ability to lead testing on high-visibility programs.

Responsibilities

• Review test requirements, specs, and docs to prepare test data.
• Design, execute, and document functional test cases in staging.
• Perform regression testing to ensure changes don’t break functionality.
• Log and prioritize defects using ALM and VersionOne.
• Collaborate with developers to verify defect fixes.
• Validate deployments to production environments.
• Execute smoke tests post-deployment in production.
• Prepare documentation for production sign-off including test results.
• Communicate findings to stakeholders and participate in release meetings.
• Create and manage automated tests using Playwright.

Skills

QA experience

Test automation

Communication skills

Independent worker

Education

Bachelors in Software Engineering or CS

Tools

ALM

VersionOne

Playwright

Rational

Mercury

Job description

PLANIT Group in Reston, VA is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer for a remote-capable role, with on-site flexibility. You will review requirements, design and execute test cases, perform regression testing, log defects, and validate deployments across staging and production.

Candidates should have eight years of software QA/field experience, a degree in software engineering or CS preferred, and strong communication.