Senior Quality Assurance Analyst – Automation

ICF

Senior QA Analyst with automation experience supporting NIH projects at ICF. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure software quality and reliability in web-based applications.

Posted 6/16/2026full-timeReston • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $81,499 - $138,549 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaSeleniumTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support automated and manual testing of the software application, including writing test cases, authoring test code, running test frameworks and scripts, and creating test reports.
Design, develop, document, and maintain automated functional test cases and other test artifacts, including test data and data verification.
Build automation framework and re-usable automation tests/test scripts using Playwright/Selenium.
Perform setup, configuration, and maintenance of automated testing environments with a focus on continuous testing and DevOps processes.
Use Jira or similar tools to provide visibility to status, metrics, predictability, throughput, quality, impediments, and dependencies.
Participate in requirements grooming for sprint preparation.
Maintain regression testing suits by updating test cases to include newly added functionality.
Take part in backlog grooming and sprint planning and work with the project team to identify risks/impacts to the system.
Perform various types of testing including automated, functional, and regression testing on web applications.
Work with developers to perform root-cause analysis, preliminary problem diagnosis, implement bug fixes and change requests.
Execute test cases and identify and track defects with clear steps to reproduce.
Work with the scrum team to analyze user stories and write test scripts using Gherkin syntax.
Conduct demos or training necessary for the successful execution of the project.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree
5+ or more years of solid, demonstrable experience in various types of testing including front-end, regression, and performance testing on web-based applications.
2+ years experience with Automated Testing tools (Selenium/Playwright)
2+ years experience with Java/TypeScript specifically for automated testing for Playwright
2+ years of demonstrated experience integrating automation tests into CI pipelines.
2+ years of demonstrated experience documenting and tracking defects and tests in JIRA and creating test plans for code promotion through tiered environments.
Ability to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust clearance.
Must reside in the United States, be authorized to work in the United States, and perform all work within the United States.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Reasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process.

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Hard Skills & Tools

automated testingmanual testingtest case writingtest code authoringtest frameworksPlaywrightSeleniumJavaTypeScriptCI pipelines

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationproblem diagnosisrisk identificationtrainingrequirements groomingbacklog groomingsprint planning

Certifications

Bachelor's DegreeFederal Public Trust clearance