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Fairfax, VA - USA

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 21 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

QA Test Engineer
Active Secret Preferred
Hybrid-within commutable distance to Northern VA/DCA

Nationwide IT Services NIS is seeking a
QA Test Engineerfor the following potential opportunity:
  • Analyze requirements user stories ICDs and acceptance criteria; translate them into comprehensive test plans and test cases.
  • Define test strategies covering functional regression integration end-to-end performance accessibility (as required) and security validation support.
  • Develop test estimates schedules entry/exit criteria and risk-based test approaches aligned to release milestones.
  • Maintain traceability from requirements to test cases to defects to final verification (RTM/trace matrices).
  • Execute manual tests across UI backend services and integrations in multiple environments (dev/test/stage/prod-like).
  • Validate API behavior (REST/SOAP as applicable) including authentication authorization input validation error handling and contract compliance.
  • Design and implement automated regression suites for UI and API layers using program-approved frameworks (e.g. Selenium/Playwright/Cypress for UI; Postman/Newman/RestAssured for APIs).
  • Build maintainable automation: reusable components page objects test data management tagging and reporting.
  • Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (smoke tests gated builds nightly runs) in partnership with DevSecOps.
  • Monitor automation outcomes; triage failures reduce flakiness and continuously improve coverage.
  • Produce and maintain test documentation: test plans procedures test reports RTM automation runbooks and release notes inputs.
Primary Objectives: Assist in the Discovery Phase activities of gathering user requirements business analysis legacy system analysis Epic/Story creation external data integration planning and product backlog management.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Active Secret Clearance Preferred
  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems
  • 2 years (or program-equivalent) experience in software testing/QA for enterprise applications.
  • Strong knowledge of QA methodologies test design techniques and defect lifecycle management.
  • Hands-on experience executing tests for web applications and APIs.
  • Test automation experience with one or more:
UI: Playwright Selenium Cypress
API: Postman/Newman RestAssured Karate

About Nationwide IT Services
NIS is an IT and Management consulting company that is a CVE-verified Service-Disabled Veteran- Owned Small Business. Our mission is to deliver value-added services to our customers leveraging technology people and industry best practices to implement innovative solutions through our trusted employees and team members.

Our benefits package includes medical dental and vision insurance life and disability insurance 401(k) plan with employer match paid holidays PTO (sick/vacation) commuter benefits employee assistance program (EAP) and educational reimbursement along with Pet Insurance.

Nationwide IT Services Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all qualified applicants regardless of race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity genetics disability or protected veteran status.









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QA Test EngineerActive Secret PreferredHybrid-within commutable distance to Northern VA/DCANationwide IT Services NIS is seeking aQA Test Engineerfor the following potential opportunity:Analyze requirements user stories ICDs and acceptance criteria; translate them into comprehensive test plans and t...
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