OIC-Quality Assurance Specialist 1(QAS1)

AM--Brian Gross

Onsite interviews at 30 W Spring Street Columbus, Ohio 43215
Work will be onsite same location.

The QA Automation Engineer will convert business and functional requirements into reliable automated tests and reusable automation components. The engineer must be able to work independently in an existing automation framework, create new coverage, troubleshoot failures, manage test data, validate APIs and persistence, and integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.

Core Responsibilities:

Translate BRDs, Functional Requirements (FRs), user stories, acceptance criteria, and defects into automated Test Scenarios and Test Cases

Create maintainable automation components including fixtures, Page Objects, API clients, data factories, utilities, and reusable assertions.

Debug failed tests and determine whether the root cause is application code, automation code, environment, configuration, network, or test data.

Create and maintain reliable test data, cleanup routines, and parallel-safe test execution.

Participate in code reviews, defect triage, test planning, regression execution, and release validation.

Link automated coverage and execution evidence to Azure DevOps work items/Test Plans where required.

Continuously improve automation reliability, execution speed, maintainability, reporting, and coverage.

Required/Desired Skills

Skill Required /Desired Amount of Experience
QA/testing experience.	Required	5	Years
Hands-on test automation development experience.	Required	2	Years
Strong Playwright or Selenium experience	Required	0
Strong UI automation and REST API automation experience.	Required	0
Working SQL/database validation skills	Required	0
Strong understanding of test design, negative testing, boundary testing, role/access testing, and regression testing.	Required	0
Experience with Git and collaborative code review	Required	0
Experience running automation in CI/CD pipelines	Required	0
Experience creating reusable fixtures, Page Objects, API clients, test-data factories, and custom reporting.EE	Highly desired	0
Advanced Playwright + TypeScript experience.	Highly desired	0
Experience with parallel execution and worker-safe test design.	Highly desired	0
Experience combining UI, API, and database validation in a single business workflow.	Highly desired	0
Docker/container familiarity, performance-testing exposure, or accessibility-testing exposure.	Highly desired	0

Questions

No. Question

Question1

Do you understand, and will abide by, the provision in your subcontract with OST that it is PROHIBITED for government equipment to be taken or used outside of the United States by your contractors? The consequences of this occurring can and will result in repercussions to you, the prime vendor, regardless if the candidate works for a sub-vendor of yours. It will also result in immediate termination of the contractor, and make them ineligible for rehire in the program.

Question2

Where does your candidate currently reside?

Question3

Selected candidate will be required to have a BCI Fingerprint check performed. Does your candidate agree?

Question4

Resource will be required to work onsite: OIC location (William Green Building 8th floor, 30 West Spring Street, Columbus, Ohio). Do you agree with this requirement?