Senior Quality Assurance Systems Tester

FM Talent Source; Silver Spring (MD); On-site; USD 85,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

FM Talent Source is seeking a Quality Assurance System Tester for a full-time contract opportunity in the United States. The role focuses on validating new software capabilities and legacy functionality within a large-scale agile program, embedded with delivery teams to ensure quality and release readiness.

The tester will design, execute, and automate tests, analyze defects, and support CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments, ensuring security, accessibility, and data integrity before

Qualifications

• 4+ years in software QA or related roles.
• Experience testing web apps, data integrations, and end-to-end workflows.
• Experience with automated test scripts and frameworks.
• Ability to interpret user stories and design tests.
• Defect tracking and test evidence capture.
• Knowledge of SDLC, Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD.
• Ability to troubleshoot failures and communicate risks.
• Strong documentation and traceability skills.

Responsibilities

• Review user stories, acceptance criteria, technical designs to define test coverage.
• Design, execute, maintain manual and automated tests.
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts across environments.
• Perform end-to-end testing of new components and legacy functionality.
• Validate data persistence and transformation in data tests.
• Document defects with steps, evidence, environment.
• Collaborate with developers to reproduce defects and verify fixes.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Support accessibility, security, performance testing.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of QA practices.

Skills

Software testing

Test automation

CI/CD pipelines

Agile Scrum

Defect analysis

Documentation

Communication

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

Cucumber

Postman/Newman

Jira

Job description

FM Talent Source is seeking a Quality Assurance System Tester for a full-time contract opportunity in the United States. The role focuses on validating new software capabilities and legacy functionality within a large-scale agile program, embedded with delivery teams to ensure quality and release readiness.

The tester will design, execute, and automate tests, analyze defects, and support CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments, ensuring security, accessibility, and data integrity before