Quality Assurance Analyst I

The Quality Assurance Analyst I supports delivery of reliable full-stack software by planning, executing, and improving quality assurance activities across web applications, APIs, integrations, and release environments. The role develops and maintains automated functional, regression, and end-to-end test coverage using modern browser automation frameworks, with emphasis on repeatable testing across supported browsers and environments.

The Quality Assurance Analyst I partners with developers, product owners, and delivery teams throughout the software development lifecycle to identify functional, security, interface, and data-quality defects early. This position supports test-environment readiness, defect triage, release-readiness activities, and continuous improvement of the end-to-end testing process.

Key Responsibilities

• Design risk-based test approaches, test cases, test data, and traceability artifacts aligned to functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and integration dependencies.

• Build, maintain, and execute automated UI, functional, regression, and end-to-end test scripts using Playwright and Selenium, including reusable test components, stable locators, assertions, synchronization, browser coverage, and failure diagnostics.

• Perform API testing to validate service behavior, request and response structures, authentication and authorization handling, error conditions, data integrity, and integration workflows.

• Execute smoke, regression, functional, exploratory, and security-focused testing across development, test, staging, and production-like environments.

• Integrate automated tests into continuous integration and delivery pipelines; analyze test results, screenshots, logs, traces, and test reports to isolate failures and support timely remediation.

• Identify, document, prioritize, and retest software defects with clear reproduction steps, expected versus actual results, supporting evidence, business impact, and release-risk context.

• Support test-environment readiness by validating configurations, coordinating test-account access and test-data setup or masking, and escalating environment or dependency issues.

• Participate in peer code and test-automation reviews, defect triage, requirements refinement, and release-readiness activities to improve test coverage, maintainability, reliability, and software quality.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.

• At least 3 years of progressively responsible experience in software quality assurance, software testing, test automation, requirements analysis, programming, or related information technology disciplines.

• Demonstrated hands-on experience developing and executing automated browser-based tests using Playwright and Selenium.

• Experience creating and executing test plans, test cases, test scripts, regression suites, and defect reports across the software development lifecycle.

• Experience performing functional, integration, regression, and API testing for web-based applications and services.

• Ability to identify, document, track, and retest defects using clear evidence and effective communication with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust background investigation.

• Candidates must be able to work on-site in Bethesda, MD two days per week.

Preferred Qualifications

• ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level, Certified Selenium Tester, or comparable software testing certification.

• Experience integrating automated test suites with continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, version-control tools, test-management platforms, and defect-tracking tools.

• Experience testing applications in a highly regulated federal environment with formal documentation, auditability, security controls, and release processes.

• Familiarity with secure testing practices related to input handling, session management, access controls, authentication, authorization, and insecure service interactions.

Compensation Ranges

Compensation ranges for ASM Research positions vary depending on multiple factors; including but not limited to, location, skill set, level of education, certifications, client requirements, contract-specific affordability, government clearance and investigation level, and years of experience. The compensation displayed for this role is a general guideline based on these factors and is unique to each role. Monetary compensation is one component of ASM's overall compensation and benefits package for employees.

EEO Requirements

It is the policy of ASM that an individual's race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation or national origin are not and will not be considered in any personnel or management decisions. We affirm our commitment to these fundamental policies.

All recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications is done without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, or age. All decisions on employment are made to abide by the principle of equal employment.

Physical Requirements

The physical requirements described in "Knowledge, Skills and Abilities" above are representative of those which must be met by an employee to successfully perform the primary functions of this job. (For example, "light office duties' or "lifting up to 50 pounds" or "some travel" required.) Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with qualifying disabilities, who are otherwise qualified, to perform the primary functions.

Disclaimer

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

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EEO Requirements

It is the policy of ASM that an individual's race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, gender identity, veteran status, sexual orientation or national origin are not and will not be considered in any personnel or management decisions. We affirm our commitment to these fundamental policies.

All recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications is done without regard to race, color, religion, sex, veteran status, disability, gender identity, or age. All decisions on employment are made to abide by the principle of equal employment.