QA and Test Engineer Role

About OPEN Data Jobs

OPEN Data Jobs (ODJ) is built to craft data careers. We connect high-potential data, AI, and software professionals with meaningful work on the cutting edge of the federal sector, and our aim reaches beyond any single opening: to help you understand your strengths, find the right role, and grow throughout your career.

ODJ is organized around Roles and Openings. A Role is a durable career type, such as Data Engineer or AI Engineer: it describes the work, the skills that count, and where the path can lead. An Opening is a specific position hiring right now, with a level, a location, and an application. Roles help you see where you fit; from there, there is more than one way to move.

Today, you can apply to any Opening that fits you through our secure application system. You can also register for a Role to express interest in that broader category of work. A Role registration is not an application to every future Opening.

The work

QA and Test Engineers produce the evidence that tells a team whether software is ready to trust. They turn requirements, user stories, and risks into tests, run those tests by hand and through automation, and report what they find in terms a developer can act on and a decision-maker can rely on.

The work runs through the full stack, from the user interface through APIs, services, integrations, and databases to the environments they run in, and follows real user journeys end to end across all of them. It covers user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) testing, including usability testing with representative users; functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and user acceptance testing; and performance and load testing. Accessibility testing checks conformance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), and testers work with security specialists on the checks built into the delivery pipeline. QA and Test Engineers plan test strategies and schedules, build and maintain test environments and test data, write and maintain automated test suites, track defects to resolution, and define release criteria and report whether the evidence meets them.

Testing starts early and continues throughout delivery, whether testers sit inside the delivery team or provide an independent assessment. QA and Test Engineers work with product owners, business analysts, developers, and DevSecOps engineers so that quality is designed in, measured continuously, and documented well enough to stand up to an audit or an independent review.

What you'll build