The Role
Performs software quality assurance for USAF enterprise applications and services. Reviews requirements, develops test plans and traceability, executes functional, integration, regression, system, exploratory, and API testing, documents and verifies defects, supports automation and CI/CD quality checks, coordinates test environments and data, validates cybersecurity controls, maintains auditable test artifacts, prepares quality metrics and release recommendations, and supports ATO activities.
Summary Generated by Built In
cFocus Software seeks a Software Quality Assurance Engineer to join our program supporting the United States Air Force (USAF). This position is on-site in Linthicum Heights, MD. This position requires an Active TS/SCI clearance.
Qualifications:
Qualifications:
- Active TS/SCI clearance
- B.S. Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- Experience in software quality assurance and testing of enterprise applications or services.
- Ability to interpret requirements, develop test plans, and maintain test coverage and traceability.
- Experience with functional, integration, regression, system, and API testing.
- Experience documenting defects, supporting triage, verifying fixes, and analyzing quality trends.
- Working knowledge of software development lifecycles, DevSecOps, CI/CD, and automated testing.
- Understanding of configuration control, authorized test data, and repeatable test environments.
- Ability to assess software deliverables and prepare clear test results and release readiness evidence.
- Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills for coordinating technical teams
- Review requirements, designs, interfaces, and acceptance criteria for clarity, completeness, consistency, and testability; document gaps for resolution.
- Develop and maintain software quality procedures, test plans, test cases, expected results, and requirements-to-test traceability.
- Plan and execute functional, integration, regression, system, and exploratory testing for assigned applications and services.
- Test Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), data exchanges, and integrations against Government-approved requirements and applicable interagency agreements.
- Validate application workflows, data integrity, error handling, and configurations across approved on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
- Coordinate authorized test data and representative test environments with development, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams.
- Support automated testing and CI/CD quality checks; review execution results and identify coverage gaps or unreliable tests.
- Record reproducible defects with supporting evidence, assess severity and mission impact, and coordinate triage and resolution with developers.
- Verify fixes, perform regression testing, and track unresolved defects and residual risks for release readiness reviews.
- Coordinate security testing, vulnerability remediation verification, and validation of Government-specified pipeline controls with cybersecurity personnel.
- Maintain versioned test artifacts and auditable records linking requirements, tests, results, defects, configuration changes, and releases.
- Review software deliverables and supporting documentation for accuracy, completeness, and conformance to approved requirements and quality procedures.
- Prepare test reports, quality metrics, defect summaries, and release recommendations; provide evidence for Government review and authorized deployment.
- Support user acceptance activities and resolution of Government comments; provide technical test evidence for ATO and continuous ATO activities.
- Analyze defect trends and causes, recommend preventive improvements, and support the program Quality Control Plan and corrective-action follow-through.
Skills Required
- Active TS/SCI security clearance
- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- Experience in software quality assurance and testing of enterprise applications or services
- Ability to interpret requirements, develop test plans, and maintain test coverage and traceability
- Experience with functional, integration, regression, system, and API testing
- Experience documenting defects, supporting triage, verifying fixes, and analyzing quality trends
- Working knowledge of software development lifecycles, DevSecOps, CI/CD, and automated testing
- Understanding of configuration control, authorized test data, and repeatable test environments
- Ability to assess software deliverables and prepare test results and release readiness evidence
- Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills for coordinating technical teams
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The Company
What We Do
Established in 2006, cFocus Software automates FedRAMP compliance and develops government chatbots for the Azure Government Cloud, Office 365, and SharePoint. cFocus Software is the exclusive vendor of ATO (Authority To Operate) as a Service™, which automates FedRAMP compliance for the Azure Government Cloud and Office 365. Contact Us for a demo of ATO as a Service™ or a FREE government chatbot proof of concept project today!
