Job Title: QA Engineer (DevOps) (Contract)
Location (On-site, Remote, or Hybrid?): Fairfax, VA (Remote)
Contract Duration: Contract until 02/26/2027 Job Summary:
Quality assurance engineer responsible for planning, executing, and documenting initial testing required to place defined DevOps-delivered internal-use software enhancements into service, including functional, integration, and release readiness validation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Create and maintain test plans, test cases, and traceability to development-stage requirements and deliverables.
- Execute initial functional and integration tests for defined releases; capture and retain test evidence.
- Validate AI-assisted code outputs and ensure expected behavior aligns to acceptance criteria.
- Document defects, support triage during development-stage testing, and verify fixes prior to go-live.
- Support release readiness sign-off for initial go-live and defined enhancement releases.
Required Qualifications:
- 3+ years of QA experience for web and/or platform applications.
- Experience writing test plans/cases and executing functional and integration testing.
- Familiarity with defect tracking workflows and release readiness practices.
- Ability to document test evidence clearly for auditability and stakeholder review.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with test automation tools and CI-integrated test execution.
- Experience validating data-intensive or AI/ML-enabled features.
- Familiarity with API testing and integration validation.
Deliverables / Success Measures: Approved test plans/cases; documented initial test evidence for each defined release; reduced production defect leakage; clear traceability between acceptance criteria, executed tests, and sign-off.