Software Test Engineer III

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

Benefits:

401(k)

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Paid time off

Vision insurance

iQuasar LLC has an exciting opportunity for a Software Test Engineer III to join our growing team. The Software Test Engineer III will lead or perform quality assurance activities throughout the software development lifecycle for ICAM applications. The engineer will ensure application code, configurations, integrations, and functional changes are built and tested in non-production environments before promotion. The role requires balanced experience with automated and manual testing. The candidate must be able to maintain testing, security-scanning, code-quality, and coverage gates in the CI/CD pipeline and validate functional, performance, security, and Section 508 conformance for each applicable release.

We are seeking a Software Test Engineer III for a contract position.

Position: Software Test Engineer III

Position Type: Full-time-Remote

Role Specific Duties/ Role 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

Required Qualifications:

Experience performing software quality assurance throughout the SDLC.

Experience combining automated testing with structured manual testing.

Experience developing and maintaining software test plans, scripts, cases, and results.

Experience testing software in non-production environments before release.

Experience with Selenium or a 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.

Experience validating Section 508 or accessibility requirements for software releases.

Ability to obtain and maintain favorable DHS EOD, suitability, and required system access.

Preferred Qualification:

Current 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.

iQuasar LLC is a proud partner of the Military Spouse Employment Partnership (MSEP) and the Virginia Values Veterans (V3) Program, reflecting our strong commitment to supporting military spouses, veterans, and inclusive hiring practices. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, political affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital/parental/veteran status, disability, genetic information, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, military service, non-merit factors, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.

This is a remote position.