Job Responsibilities

Quality Strategy and Test Planning

• Develop and execute test strategies and test plans for complex, data-driven applications
• Ensure backward compatibility and functional parity with the legacy system
• Analyze requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to identify gaps, risks, and ambiguities
• Partner with Product and BAs to clarify requirements and expected behavior
• Identify edge cases, regression risks, and impacts across integrated systems

Manual and Automated Testing

• Design, write, and maintain automated test suites, including end-to-end tests
• Execute and document results for:
  • Functional testing
  • Regression testing
  • Integration testing
  • Cross-browser and cross-device testing
• Validate application programming interface (API) integrations and data flows between frontend and backend systems
• Compare legacy and modern system behavior to ensure consistent outcomes
• Track, document, and verify defect resolution
• Integrate automated tests into Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• Improve test coverage, test reliability, and testing processes over time
• Contribute to improving QA standards, tools, and best practices across the program

Agile Collaboration and Delivery

• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives
• Collaborate closely with Frontend and Backend Engineers during development and testing
• Provide early and continuous feedback to help teams build quality into the product
• Support release validation and readiness activities
• Assist with troubleshooting production and pre-production issues as needed

Required skills and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance for web-based or enterprise applications
• Experience testing complex, data-driven systems
• Strong experience with manual and automated testing
• Experience validating requirements and identifying gaps early in the development lifecycle
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and documentation skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• High attention to detail and commitment to quality

• Clearance and Location Requirements

  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
  • Must reside in and be authorized to work in the United States; candidates in the DMV area preferred
  • All work must be performed within the United States

Job Responsibilities

• Develop code using Angular
• Create mobile-friendly, responsive, applications
• Fully-engage in the Agile process as a cross-functional team member
• Participate in code reviews
• Write meaningful and targeted tests using Cypress and other frameworks
• Be an active steward of a clean, extensible code base
• Engage with clients throughout the entire development process
• Research and recommend technologies to solve clients’ problems and improve their processes
• Learn and build a vast repertoire of technology stacks and dive deep into the specific technologies of the project

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with federal government or large enterprise systems
• Experience in healthcare, life sciences, or systems handling sensitive data
• Experience working on data-heavy or workflow-driven applications
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS))
• Experience working in multi-vendor, multi-team environments
• Strong interest in user experience and accessibility

Required skills and experience

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of experience delivering resilient, well-tested code
• Expertise with HTML, SCSS, Material, Typescript, and frameworks such as Angular, React, or Vue
• Experience with data visualization libraries such as D3.js Chart.js, Plotly, or others
• Familiarity with .NET, Python, Ruby on Rails, or Java
• Proficient at testing as part of the development process
• Experience with the entire Software Development Life Cycle
• Strong understanding of Git versioning
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• Clearance and Location Requirements

  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
  • Must reside in and be authorized to work in the United States; candidates in the DMV area preferred
  • All work must be performed within the United States

Duties & Responsibilities

This is a great opportunity to work on challenging problems as part of NCBI's Platforms team, in a technical, scientific, and goal-oriented environment.

The Platforms team:

• Develops and continuously improves DevSecOps, DataOps, and Observability platforms.
• Develops and maintains common tools and libraries.
• Evaluates new technologies and practices.
• Helps NCBI developers with adoption platforms, tools, architectural patterns and best practices.
• Ensures compliance with the Federal application security regulations and standards by providing automated solutions and compliance pipelines.
• Practices Agile development and continuous improvement.

The Compliance and QA team within the Platform section of NCBI focuses on:

The person filling the role of QA Test Engineer will need proven software development skills using modern computing languages such as Python, JavaScript, and Java. Other highly valued expertise includes web technologies and experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD). In addition to automating tests (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright), a person in this role would be expected to implement frameworks and utilities to support deployment, testing, and monitoring. 

• Build and maintain compliance pipelines with built-in quality gates
• Continuously automatically gather metrics for application quality for the enterprise-wide portfolio of applications
• Provide QA services on a project basis

NCBI's platforms are based on containerization, Kubernetes, GitOps and open interfaces with deployments to multiple clouds and premises.

Strong coding skills in at least one programing language is required.  NCBI uses Python, Javascript/Typescript, C++, some Kotlin and Scala and a bit of Golang and Rust.

NCBI is a Linux shop, candidates need adequate level of Linux command-line skills.  Sysadmin-level skills are a bonus.

Familiarity with build tools and various web, RPC and other frameworks is a bonus.  Experience with design patterns in coding and architecture is a bonus.

Any knowledge of the following is helpful but not required:

• OpenShift, Anthos, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Hashicorp Nomad
• Observability tools such as Prometheus, EFK (ElasticSearch, fluentd, Kibana), TIGK (Telegraph, InfluxDB, Graphana, Kapacitor), DataDog, Sensu, Jaeger, Sentry, OpsGenie, PagerDuty.
• Service mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd
• Kafka, Apache Pulsar, RabbitMQ, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Flume, Apache Storm, Apache Spark Streaming, Google Cloud Pub/Sub 
• GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, Teamcity, Artifactory, or equivalent products for management of Git source control, CI/CD pipelines and artifact lifecycle management.
• Secret Management tools such as Hashicorp Vault, CyberArk, Azure Key Vault, Google Cloud Secret Manager or equivalent.

Positions offered at any level.  Growth mindset is encouraged and the team offers leadership opportunities at any level.

Educational Requirements

• B.S. in a STEM field (Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics) or equivalent industry experience in Systems Engineering.

We attract the best people in the business with our competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, and tuition reimbursement. If you enjoy being a part of a high performing, professional service and technology focused organization, please apply today!