QA Analyst

*We are open to supporting 100% remote work anywhere within the US*

ICF’s Digital Modernization Division is a rapidly growing, entrepreneurial, technology-driven department, seeking a QA Analyst to support a variety of Federal clients, including the General Services Administration (GSA).

Our Digital Modernization Division is an information technology and management consulting department that offers integrated, strategic solutions to its public and private-sector clients. ICF has the expertise, agility, and commitment to design, build, and operate high-performance IT engines to support all aspects of our client’s business. 

Quality Assurance Analyst

ICF is seeking a highly motivated Quality Assurance Analyst to support digital solutions for a variety of Federal clients, including the General Services Administration (GSA). The analyst will support our GSA projects by collaborating and working with a cross-functional team to deliver quality, innovative, and highly scalable web-based applications to end clients, and will serve as a Quality Assurance Analyst, performing testing and verification/validation activities for team I.T. deliveries. The ideal candidate will have prior experience working with cross disciplinary teams.

What you’ll be doing:

Manage and support daily work requests for one or more project teams by:

• Support automated and/or manual testing of the software application, including writing test cases, authoring test code, running test frameworks and scripts, and creating test reports.

• Design, develop, document, and maintain automated functional test cases and other test artifacts, including test data and data verification.

• Build automation framework and re-usable automation tests/test scripts using Selenium.

• Perform setup, configuration, and maintenance of automated testing environments with a focus on continuous testing and DevOps processes.

• Use Jira or similar tools to provide visibility to status, metrics, predictability, throughput, quality, impediments, and dependencies.

• Participate in requirements grooming for sprint preparation.

• Maintain regression testing suite by updating test cases to include newly added functionality.

• Take part in backlog grooming and sprint planning and work with the project team to identify risks/impacts to the system.

• Perform various types of testing including automated, functional, and regression testing on web applications.

• Work with developers to perform root-cause analysis, preliminary problem diagnosis, implement bug fixes and change requests.

• Execute test cases and identify and track defects with clear steps to reproduce.

• Work with the scrum team to analyze user stories and write test scripts using Gherkin syntax.

• Conduct demos or training necessary for the successful execution of the project.

Required Skills:

• 2+ years of solid, demonstrable experience in various types of testing including front-end, regression, and performance testing on web-based applications.

• 2+ years of demonstrated experience writing UI automated tests using Selenium Web Driver with Java, Cucumber abstraction layer.

• 2+ years of demonstrated experience integrating automation tests into CI pipelines.

• 2+ year of demonstrated experience documenting and tracking defects and tests in JIRA and creating test plans for code promotion through tiered environments.

• US Citizen or Green Card Holder due to federal contract requirements.

• Ability to obtain U.S. government public trust clearance.

• MUST RESIDE IN THE United States (U.S.) and the work MUST BE PERFORMED in the United States (U.S.), as this work is for a federal contract and laws do apply

Desired Skills:

• Bachelor's Degree

• Strong analytical, problem solving, and time management skills

• Excellent attention to detail

• Ability to work independently and within one or more teams with excellent time management, organizational, and reporting skills

Working at ICF

ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider, but we’re not your typical consultants. We combine unmatched expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients solve their most complex challenges, navigate change, and shape the future.

We can only solve the world's toughest challenges by building an inclusive workplace that allows everyone to thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to hiring regardless of any protected characteristic, such as race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status, or military/veteran status. Together, our employees are empowered to share their expertise and collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information, please read our EEO & AA policy.

Reasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process. To request an accommodation please email [email protected] and we will be happy to assist. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

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Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is:

$63,511.00 - $107,968.00

Nationwide Remote Office (US99)