[Hiring] Senior Quality Assurance Engineer @Ad Hoc

Role Description

The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer serves as an experienced individual contributor supporting the systems that determine healthcare eligibility and enrollment for Veterans, serving more than 16,000 end users across the Health Eligibility Center and VHA Office of Community Care. Testers on this program work as a shared service across both the legacy and modernized application tracks rather than embedded in a single team. With minimal oversight, you will own testing strategy and coverage for your areas and contribute to the program’s broader engineering practices. Primary expectations include:

• Own and extend automated test coverage across modernized and legacy applications, including keyword-driven suites and web application regression testing.
• Design and execute API test coverage, and validate data across system integrations and migrations.
• Author, manage, and execute test cases with full traceability from requirement through execution evidence.
• Debug and triage failures, separating genuine defects from environment and test-harness issues, and drive them to resolution.
• Monitor coverage across automated and manual suites, build plans to fill gaps, and direct junior staff as needed.
• Develop testing strategies tailored to the technical stack and skills of the team.
• Present testing strategy, results, and risks to clients, stakeholders, partners, and other engineers.
• Design and maintain dashboards that inform the program on quality trends.
• Participate in planning and design sessions, informing decisions on architecture and implementation so systems are testable from the outset.
• Execute across the full environment chain, including production verification, and coordinate environment availability with DevOps.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies on a two-week sprint cadence; partner with business analysts on acceptance criteria and with developers on defect reproduction.
• Participate in technical interviews with new candidates, and mentor junior team members.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of experience; relevant years of experience may be substituted for education.
• Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in testing methodologies and is able to work with the team on plans that optimize quality versus cost.
• Hands-on experience with test automation, including keyword-driven frameworks.
• Experience with API testing using tools such as Postman or Swagger UI.
• Demonstrated debugging and troubleshooting experience.
• Experience managing test cases and execution in Jira, including Xray or a comparable test management tool.
• Must be a U.S. citizen, valid green card holder, or have been granted political asylum or refugee status.
• Must be able to complete VA onboarding, PIV credentialing, and a Public Trust background investigation.

Requirements

• Experience with Tricentis Tosca or an equivalent enterprise automation suite.
• Experience with Playwright or a comparable modern web automation framework.
• Scripting in Python, bash, or Windows batch.
• Experience with data validation and data migration testing.
• Prior VA or federal health IT program experience.
• Active Public Trust clearance.

Benefits

• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible PTO.
• 401K with employer match.
• Paid parental leave after one year of service.
• Employee Assistance Program.