Top Senior QA Jobs in Washington, DC

Build and maintain automated data quality testing for customer data pipelines. Responsibilities include developing dbt, Soda, and SQL checks; validating schemas, loads, sequencing, and downstream reconciliations; detecting anomalies; managing severity levels and customer overrides; reporting quality metrics; and partnering with engineering teams to embed testing into new pipelines. The role requires strong backend testing, SQL, Python, Airflow, and Databricks experience, along with excellent debugging and communication skills.

Leads end-to-end quality assurance for Workday implementations, upgrades, enhancements, and ERP-related initiatives. Develops QA strategies, test plans, and frameworks; oversees functional, integration, regression, and UAT testing; manages defects, test data, environments, releases, and quality reporting. Partners with stakeholders and delivery teams to ensure UAT readiness, issue resolution, requirements alignment, and adherence to QA governance and best practices.

Designs and maintains automated UI, workflow, API, integration, and regression test suites integrated with CI/CD pipelines. Develops load, stress, endurance, concurrency, recovery, and reliability tests using tools such as Selenium and Locust. Analyzes performance metrics, identifies bottlenecks, publishes test evidence and release recommendations, and coaches development and QA teams. Work supports secure IL-5 and IL-6 government environments and requires Secret clearance or eligibility.

Leads quality assurance across a large-scale federal healthcare program, developing testing strategies, automation frameworks, QA standards, metrics, and release processes. Oversees manual and automated testing, defect management, root cause analysis, compliance, and continuous improvement. Provides technical leadership and mentorship to QA teams while collaborating with developers, product owners, business analysts, and stakeholders. Requires extensive federal, VA, healthcare IT, Agile, and software quality experience, along with eligibility for required federal investigation or VA clearance.

Tests a DMV enterprise application through requirements analysis, test planning, manual and automated execution, regression and integration testing, defect tracking, and results documentation. Develops automated scripts with Selenium or ACCELQ, validates database results and REST APIs, performs cross-browser and usability testing, and collaborates with developers, business analysts, clients, and project managers in an Agile environment. Maintains test artifacts, participates in code reviews, and follows DC Government security standards.

Lead QA execution for a health tech platform across web, mobile, APIs, backend services, data pipelines, and AI/ML products. Develop automated test suites, coordinate manual and automated testing, validate data quality, support CI/CD integration, track defects and coverage, conduct regression and performance testing, mentor QA staff, and ensure HIPAA and healthcare compliance.

Lead the automation strategy for a live AAA mobile game, building the team, frameworks, tooling, standards, and quality gates needed for frequent releases. Responsibilities include hiring and mentoring, designing automated UI/API/mobile tests, integrating testing into CI/CD, establishing metrics and observability, providing hands-on technical leadership, and partnering across Engineering, QA, Product, Live Operations, and external teams to improve release quality.

Designs and maintains scalable automated testing frameworks and end-to-end test suites using modern automation tools. Integrates testing into CI/CD pipelines, reduces test flakiness, analyzes defects and performance issues, and guides risk-based testing strategies. Partners with Engineering and Product teams to embed quality throughout development, supports observability and troubleshooting, and promotes shift-left testing and continuous quality improvement.

The Senior QA Engineer will design and execute testing strategies for reporting systems, data extracts, and business intelligence outputs. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing complex SQL, tracing data lineage across source systems and ETL pipelines, validating calculations and metrics, investigating discrepancies, documenting defects, and maintaining test documentation and version-controlled scripts. The role collaborates with data engineers, reporting teams, and business stakeholders to improve data quality and ensure accurate, reliable reporting.

The Senior IT QA Engineer owns quality strategy and outcomes across complex technology initiatives. Responsibilities include designing automated testing solutions, integrating quality verification into CI/CD pipelines, analyzing quality and production data, developing dashboards, managing risk, leading root-cause analysis, and influencing product, engineering, architecture, security, operations, and business stakeholders. The role requires technical contributions across web, mobile, API, data, cloud, and distributed systems, plus mentoring engineers and advancing quality engineering practices.

Leads QA strategy and test architecture for Kubernetes, cloud-native, distributed, and multi-cloud systems. Designs scalable automation, production-like test scenarios, chaos and performance testing, CI/CD quality gates, and infrastructure-as-code. Provides technical leadership through risk analysis, release readiness assessments, incident retrospectives, architecture reviews, and mentorship. Requires deep Kubernetes, Linux, cloud, automation, observability, security, and troubleshooting expertise.

Design, develop, and execute manual and automated tests for front-end, back-end, APIs, and large-scale services. Build and maintain automated test suites and frameworks (Java, JUnit, Selenium, TestNG), analyze logs, report results, and collaborate with stakeholders; ensure test coverage across devices and drive test strategy and sign-off.

Design, develop, and execute automated tests, perform API and performance testing, identify and document defects, collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure product quality and resolve issues.

Develop and execute manual and automated tests, define test strategies and cases, build regression automation frameworks, track defects, and advocate for software quality. Collaborate with engineering and distributed cross-functional teams to deliver reliable mobile and digital products in a fast-moving startup environment.

Develop and execute comprehensive tests for GIS applications, ArcGIS tools, geospatial workflows, automated validation processes, and web mapping applications. Validate spatial data, geodatabase attributes, Real Property records, business rules, reports, dashboards, and integrations using SQL and scripting. Document defects, investigate root causes, verify fixes, and collaborate with GIS specialists, developers, and analysts. The role requires Esri GIS, Army Real Property and IGI&S knowledge, automated testing experience, and CAC eligibility.

Perform comprehensive QA for Salesforce applications in a regulated federal environment, including functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and UAT testing. Develop test plans and cases, validate configuration, automation, custom Apex and Lightning components, integrations, data migrations, and reporting. Track defects, verify fixes, support releases and deployments, and provide quality briefings to government stakeholders. The role also supports Salesforce Classic-to-Lightning migration and compliance-focused QA governance.

Lead QA strategy and scalable test automation for cybersecurity web applications using Playwright and JavaScript. Build and maintain reliable automated testing frameworks, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, establish quality gates, diagnose failures, and support security testing. Mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, collaborate cross-functionally, and improve testing practices, coverage, reliability, and release quality across multiple products.

The Quality Assurance Tester II designs and executes test plans, leads regression testing, manages defects, and maintains automated UI and API test suites. The role collaborates with development and product teams in Agile ceremonies, analyzes test results, improves QA processes, and mentors junior testers. Responsibilities include front-end, back-end, database, load, and mobile application testing.

Own Clara’s QA automation strategy, frameworks, quality standards, and CI/CD integration across web, API, and mobile products. Design and maintain Playwright-based automation, establish coverage and reliability standards, guide test-data and API testing practices, and drive observability and failure triage. Partner with engineering, product, and platform teams on adoption and release confidence. Mentor QA engineers and developers, make framework decisions, and provide technical leadership without formal people-management responsibility.

Own quality across Decile Hub and Start Fund by anticipating release issues, building AI-agent-driven regression and exploratory testing systems, maintaining test plans and release checks, and managing bug triage. The role also focuses on customer onboarding, login, identity verification, document signing, and capital workflows. The QA Engineer partners with engineering, product, and customer success to turn customer feedback into comprehensive test coverage.

Designs, executes, and debugs manual and automated tests for software products. Reviews requirements, develops test plans and scenarios, performs regression and exploratory testing, documents defects, verifies fixes, and supports successful releases. Coordinates testing across development teams, maintains bug backlogs, and recommends improvements to testing processes, tools, and training. Uses SQL Server Management Studio and SQL queries, with ERP application testing experience preferred.

Leads QA automation initiatives by developing and maintaining automated functional, regression, API, and integration test suites for Guidewire software and mobile applications. Improves CI/CD pipelines, performs root cause analysis, drives quality improvements, collaborates with developers and product owners, and mentors junior QA engineers.

Leads and develops a Quality Engineering team while defining scalable automation frameworks and AI-enabled testing workflows. Owns testing strategy across web, mobile, API, performance, accessibility, integration, and regression testing. Partners with Product, Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, and Business Analysis to advance shift-left quality, CI/CD quality gates, release readiness, platform resiliency, and quality metrics. Drives modernization of legacy tools, automation adoption, AI-assisted testing, continuous improvement, and business-aligned quality outcomes.

Designs and maintains automated test frameworks for web, API, and mobile applications. Performs functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing; validates APIs, databases, and integrations; integrates tests into CI/CD pipelines; manages defects; collaborates with development and product teams in Agile ceremonies; and provides quality metrics and reporting.

Ensure the quality of web applications, APIs, backend services, and mobile applications through manual and automated testing. Develop test strategies, plans, and documentation; manage defects; lead root cause analysis; integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines; validate accessibility; and mentor junior QA engineers. Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to improve product quality, performance, security, and user experience.