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Software QA Tester

SAIC

Huntsville, ALJob$80–120K/yrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$80–120K/yr
Location
Huntsville, AL
Work Authorization
US work authorization required

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Secret clearance

Job overview

SAIC seeks a Software QA Tester for its Theater Operations Planning Toolkit team, supporting a joint mission-planning product. The tester will help ensure the product meets requirements and improve release quality through testing, requirements validation, defect analysis, and recommendations for procedural improvements. The role requires a bachelor’s degree plus two years of experience, or five or more years of experience in lieu of a degree, and requires U.S. citizenship and clearance eligibility.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Agile/ScrumSoftware Development LifecycleManual TestingAutomated TestingTest Case WritingTest Script WritingTest Plan WritingDefect TrackingDefect ManagementJIRAFunctional TestingRegression TestingIntegration TestingSystem TestingUsability TestingUser Acceptance TestingFlight PlanningLVCFlight Debriefings

Qualifications

Bachelor's or 5+ Years Experience2 Years ExperienceAdvanced Testing CertificationISTQBCSTECSQASecret Clearance or Interim SecretU.S. CitizenshipUSAF or USA Service

Full job description

Description

SAIC is seeking a Software QA Tester to join our Theater Operations Planning Toolkit (TOP-T) team supporting a Joint mission planning product. The Software Tester will be responsible for ensuring the product meets requirements and increasing the quality of product releases.

Job Description:

  • Develops and executes comprehensive test plans, schedules, cases, and procedures to ensure products meet end-user requirements.

  • Performs software testing activities to verify proper operation and identify defects.

  • Documents, communicates, and supports analysis of test results, including resolution of open issues.

  • Validates requirements with stakeholders and communicates them to software engineers for implementation.

  • Documents requirements for existing product functionality.

  • Identifies and recommends improvements to current procedures and develops models for future configurations.

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:

  • Bachelors and two years or (5+) years of experience considered in lieu of degree.

  • Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

  • Experience in both manual and automated testing.

  • Experience in writing and executing test cases, test scripts, and test plans.

  • Experience in defect tracking and management tools (e.g., JIRA).

  • Knowledge of different types of testing, including functional, regression, integration, system, usability, and UAT.

Required Certifications:

  • Advanced certification(s) in testing or quality assurance (e.g., ISTQB, CSTE, CSQA) preferred.

Required Clearance:

  • Must be able to obtain a full Secret Clearance; Interim Secret required prior to start, SAIC will help to obtain.

  • Must be a current US Citizen.

Preferred Skills:

  • USAF or USA service with working knowledge of flight planning, LVC and flight debriefings.

Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER: 2618645

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

How this job compares

Set against the 5,052 open Quality Assurance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$80–120K/yr
  • Alabama median$79–126K/yr27 salary ranges
  • US median$88–141K/yr2,294 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $100K, is 5% below the Alabama median midpoint ($105K) — in the middle half of Quality Assurance salary ranges in Alabama.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 64 open Quality Assurance jobs in Alabama and 5,052 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Quality Assurance postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,871 postings).
Education
1,733 of the 5,052 open Quality Assurance jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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