Senior Software Test Engineer III — Remote, CI/CD

IQUASAR LLC; Sterling (VA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Paid time off

Vision insurance

Job summary

iQuasar LLC is seeking a Software Test Engineer III for a contract, remote role in the United States. The candidate will lead QA across the full SDLC, balancing automated and manual testing, and ensure non-production testing before promotions.

Responsibilities include CI/CD integration, security and quality gates, and DHS accessibility considerations. Experience with Selenium, Jenkins, SonarQube, and CI/CD tooling is required, as well as testing ICAM/IAM/Sso/PIV/CKI cybersecurity applications.

Qualifications

• Experience performing software quality assurance throughout the SDLC.
• Experience combining automated testing with structured manual testing.
• Experience developing and maintaining test plans, scripts, cases, and results.
• Experience testing software in non-production environments before release.
• Experience with Selenium or comparable automated functional testing tool.
• Experience with Jenkins or comparable CI/CD pipeline tooling.
• Experience with SonarQube or comparable code-quality/security-scanning tools.
• Experience with functional, regression, integration, and release testing.
• Ability to obtain and maintain favorable DHS EOD, suitability, and required system access.
• Preferred: DHS Trusted Tester certification.
• Experience with WCAG 2.0 Level A and AA criteria.
• Experience conducting performance or load testing for enterprise web applications.
• Prior DHS or other federal civilian testing experience.
• Experience testing ICAM, IAM, SSO, PIV, PKI, PAM, access-management, or cybersecurity applications.
• Experience with Jira, GitHub Enterprise, Java/Spring applications, Angular applications, MySQL, or containerized environments.
• Experience supporting automated security, accessibility, and coverage gates in a federal DevSecOps pipeline.

Responsibilities

• Plan and perform quality assurance activities across the full SDLC.
• Validate application changes in development, test, staging, or other non-production environments before production promotion.
• Develop and maintain automated and manual test cases, scripts, suites, data, and evidence.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain or support testing and quality gates using Selenium, SonarQube, Jenkins, and related tools.
• Validate functional requirements and user-story acceptance criteria.
• Perform or coordinate regression, integration, system, performance, and release testing.
• Validate Section 508 conformance for releases containing applicable ICT or user-interface functionality.
• Identify defects, document reproducible results, and work with engineers through resolution and retesting.
• Review security scan and code-quality results as part of release readiness.
• Monitor test coverage and recommend improvements to automated testing.
• Support User Acceptance Testing when required by the federal customer.
• Produce test plans, test scripts, test results, defect evidence, and release-quality documentation.
• Support production incident analysis by validating fixes and regression impacts

Skills

QA across SDLC

Automated + manual testing

Test planning & scripts

Non-production testing

Accessibility testing (Section 508)

Tools

Selenium

Jenkins

SonarQube

CI/CD tooling

Jira

GitHub Enterprise

Java/Spring

Angular

MySQL

Containerized environments

Job description

iQuasar LLC is seeking a Software Test Engineer III for a contract, remote role in the United States. The candidate will lead QA across the full SDLC, balancing automated and manual testing, and ensure non-production testing before promotions.

Responsibilities include CI/CD integration, security and quality gates, and DHS accessibility considerations. Experience with Selenium, Jenkins, SonarQube, and CI/CD tooling is required, as well as testing ICAM/IAM/Sso/PIV/CKI cybersecurity applications.