Functional Tester

Functional Tester

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The Functional Tester will support the product team by planning, executing, and documenting functional, regression, and smoke testing activities across a modern services-based application environment. This role focuses on validating requirements, ensuring traceability, and supporting high-quality feature delivery. Candidates should be comfortable executing structured manual testing with some exposure to modern automated testing tools (Swagger/OpenAPI, unit-level testing).

Key Responsibilities:

• Execute requirement-level functional tests, smoke tests, and regression test cycles.
• Create, document, and maintain test cases, test data, and test results in Jira or similar tools.
• Validate defects, isolate issues, reproduce failures, and coordinate retest activities.
• Ensure adherence to 508 accessibility requirements.
• Support automated testing efforts where possible (API testing tools, Swagger/OpenAPI validation, unit test review).
• Ensure end-to-end traceability between requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and test cases.
• Participate in backlog refinement and requirement clarification sessions with the Product Owner and Business Analysts.
• Provide feedback to developers and product staff regarding system behavior, edge cases, and risk areas.
• Support integration testing and verification of data flows across services as needed.

Here's what you need:

• 5+ years of testing experience.
• Experience performing functional, regression, and smoke testing.
• Familiarity with API testing, Swagger/OpenAPI, and basic automated testing concepts.
• Understanding of Agile delivery and iterative testing approaches.
• Ability to translate acceptance criteria and requirements into clean, repeatable test cases.
• Active TS clearance required.
• Must be willing to work onsite in Washington, DC.

The pay range for the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland is:

$91,300 - $184,900 USD

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