Quality Engineer

Work Arrangement:  Hybrid (1-2 days onsite per week)

Clearance: Active Secret 

Foxhole Technology provides robust cybersecurity and IT support capabilities for federal civilian and defense agencies. A recognized leader in navigating technology and security challenges, Foxhole delivers mission-focused innovations to answer evolving and complex needs. Our talented employee-owners provide agile, scalable services and solutions that solve operational gaps, operate critical systems, and protect and secure the enterprise – across the organization and around the world.

Seeking a highly responsible, experienced Quality Engineer with a strong background in automated and manual testing, including hands-on UI automation and API test development. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring quality, reliability, and performance of the application through a balanced approach of automated and manual testing. The Quality Engineer will collaborate closely with developers, product owners, and other stakeholders to validate requirements/user stories, identify defects, and promote best-in-class Quality practices across the development lifecycle of the application.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Work with functional and development teams to identify, document, and execute test cases aligned to business and technical requirements.
• Analyze requirements, user stories, and technical specifications to design test coverage and select the appropriate mix of manual and other test approaches based on risk, complexity, and release needs.
• Design, develop, execute, and maintain UI automated test scripts and frameworks using Selenium, with core skills in identifying stable web elements and building resilient automated tests for dynamic user interfaces; C# experience is preferred, though comparable programming language experience is acceptable.
• Design, develop, execute, and maintain API test scripts to validate service functionality, integrations, and data flows; SoapUI experience is preferred, though similar API testing tools are acceptable.
• Report, track, and verify defects, and provide clear test documentation, quality metrics, and status reporting to support stakeholder visibility and decision-making.
• Apply a strong understanding of test automation fundamentals, including how automated tests are triggered, executed, and used within CI/CD pipelines to support regression coverage and release quality.
• Define and advance quality engineering practices, testing standards, and consistent quality processes across scrum teams.

Qualifications: 

• 7+ years progressive QA testing experience in an agile development environment, with demonstratable team leadership experience
• Hands-on experience with test automation tools such as Selenium and API testing tools (e.g., SoapUI or similar), including developing and maintaining automated test scripts and frameworks.
• Ability to interpret business and technical requirements, create effective test strategies, manage defects, and support quality processes within Agile/Scrum development environments.
• Bachelor's Degree
• Must have experience establishing and maintaining a process for evaluating software and associated documentation using required tools for quality control.
• Experience implementing process for evaluating the quality of work performed as assessed against the functional, technical and performance requirements of the contract.