Quality Assurance Engineer II (LOC)

Role: Quality Assurance Engineer II (Individual Contributor)

You’ll support meeting program scope, schedule, and delivery goals by executing and improving software testing practices within an agile team.

Primary Responsibilities

• Execute functional, regression, and accessibility testing every sprint, validating stories against acceptance criteria and identifying merges that fail automated test gates.
• Write and maintain manual and automated test cases using Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright (with moderate guidance from senior QA engineers).
• Run Axe and pa11y accessibility scans on merge requests and document findings in Jira and Confluence aligned to WCAG 2.1 AA.
• Validate API behavior using Postman or Rest Assured as part of sprint-level testing coverage.
• Collaborate with developers to create boilerplate and exploratory tests for new functionality to catch edge cases early.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipeline test instrumentation in GitLab so tests run automatically at every build/check-in.
• Support load and performance testing to validate system capacity and stability.
• Participate in SAFe ceremonies (sprint planning, standups, retrospectives) to understand the program testing strategy.
• Ask questions in design/architecture discussions to ensure systems are built with testability in mind.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant QA engineering experience and a Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
• Ability to meet federal suitability requirements and pass a background investigation.
• Proficiency with test automation frameworks: Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright.
• Experience developing test plans and test cases for both manual and automated testing.