3 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Responsibilities
- Plan and perform quality assurance activities throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Validate application changes in development, test, staging, and other non-production environments before production promotion.
- Develop and maintain automated and manual test cases, scripts, suites, test data, and evidence.
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and maintain testing and quality gates using Selenium, SonarQube, Jenkins, or comparable tools.
- Perform or coordinate functional, regression, integration, system, performance, release, and user acceptance testing.
- Validate Section 508 conformance and applicable accessibility requirements for software releases.
- Identify defects, document reproducible results, collaborate with engineers on resolution, and perform retesting.
- Review security-scan and code-quality results, monitor test coverage, and recommend improvements to automated testing.
- Produce test plans, test scripts, test results, defect evidence, and release-quality documentation.
- Support production incident analysis by validating fixes and regression impacts.
Requirements
- Experience performing software quality assurance throughout the SDLC and 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, Jenkins or comparable CI/CD tooling, and 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 qualifications include current DHS Trusted Tester certification, WCAG 2.0 Level A and AA experience, enterprise web application performance or load testing, and prior DHS or federal civilian testing experience.
- Preferred experience includes testing ICAM, IAM, SSO, PIV, PKI, PAM, access-management, or cybersecurity applications.
- Experience with Jira, GitHub Enterprise, Java/Spring applications, Angular applications, MySQL, containerized environments, and automated security, accessibility, and coverage gates is preferred.
Benefits
- Benefits include training and career development opportunities, flexible work schedules, and a benefits package with a generous compensation package.
- The employer promotes work-life balance, collaboration, and an inclusive workplace.
About Makpar
Makpar is a privately held IT services firm that builds and supports cloud, data, cybersecurity, and identity solutions for U.S. federal agencies. The company delivers program and project management, compliance, and modernization consulting as professional services rather than packaged software. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, it focuses on lifecycle support across government IT portfolios, from strategy through implementation and ongoing operations.