Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer

Overview

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Business Analyst to support the delivery and modernization of mission-critical, web-based digital resources for a federal government client. This role will play a critical part in ensuring the quality, reliability, and backward compatibility of a modernized, enterprise-scale platform.

The QA Engineer will work closely with Product, Business Analysts (BAs), Engineers, User Experience (UX), and client stakeholders to validate requirements, define test strategies, and ensure new functionality meets both user expectations and feature parity with the legacy system. This role requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and a collaborative mindset, as well as hands-on experience with automated and manual testing in Agile environments.

 Duties & Responsibilities:

Job Responsibilities

Quality Strategy and Test Planning

• Develop and execute test strategies and test plans for complex, data-driven applications
• Ensure backward compatibility and functional parity with the legacy system
• Analyze requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to identify gaps, risks, and ambiguities
• Partner with Product and BAs to clarify requirements and expected behavior
• Identify edge cases, regression risks, and impacts across integrated systems

Manual and Automated Testing

• Design, write, and maintain automated test suites, including end-to-end tests
• Execute and document results for:
  • Functional testing
  • Regression testing
  • Integration testing
  • Cross-browser and cross-device testing
• Validate application programming interface (API) integrations and data flows between frontend and backend systems
• Compare legacy and modern system behavior to ensure consistent outcomes
• Track, document, and verify defect resolution
• Integrate automated tests into Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• Improve test coverage, test reliability, and testing processes over time
• Contribute to improving QA standards, tools, and best practices across the program

Agile Collaboration and Delivery

• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives