Job Title: Quality Assurance Engineer Location: Remote Duration: 6 Months +(Possible Extension) Pay Range: $38 - $43/hr W2 Clearance: Public trust Must Have Skills: •Review test requirements, specifications, and documentation to prepare and manage test data for each release. •Design, execute, and document functional test cases in staging. •Perform regression testing to ensure new changes do not break existing functionality. •Log, track, and prioritize defects found in both staging and production using ALM and VersionOne. •Collaborate with developers to verify defect fixes in both staging and production. •Log, track, and prioritize defects found in both staging and production environments. •Validate deployments and configurations to production environment. •Execute smoke tests in production to confirm basic functionality post-deployment. •Prepare and provide comprehensive documentation for production sign-off, including test coverage, results, and outstanding issues. •Communicate findings and feedback to stakeholders and participate in release meetings. •Create and manage automated tests using Playwright. • A minimum of eight (8) years experience in software development, software quality assurance/control, and/or related field; • A degree from an accredited College/University in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline is preferred; • Able to perform all functional duties independently on high-visibility programs, or mission critical aspects of a given program; • Able to oversee the efforts of direct reporting resources and/or be responsible for the efforts of all staff assigned to a specific job; • Experience training/mentoring less experienced personnel; • Extensive knowledge of and experience with formal software testing for complex software applications; • Extensive experience testing software applications, identifying/documenting defects, and working with developers and end users to resolve defects; • Extensive experience with multiple defect tracking tools (e.g. Rational, Mercury); • Extensive experience authoring software-quality-related documentation such as requirements specifications, test plans, test cases, test scripts and test reports; • Require public trust clearance • Excellent communication skills.