Software Tester / QA Engineer – Junior at ASM Research
Fairfax, VA
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Jul 7, 2026
Fairfax, VA
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An entry-level QA role embedded in a federal client program, focused on designing and running manual and automated tests — functional, regression, integration, and basic performance — across multiple environments. Day-to-day work includes writing test cases, tracking defects, validating database integrity with SQL, and contributing to automated test scripts. Suits candidates with up to three years of testing experience who can obtain a Secret clearance.
Junior level · National · Secret clearance
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $106,594 (middle half $82,076–$136,109).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
Location is not specified in the posting; the federal client environment and Secret clearance requirement strongly suggest an on-site or hybrid US government site, but no city or metro is named.
The degree requirement states a Bachelor's in a technical field but explicitly accepts 'equivalent experience in lieu of a degree,' so the degree requirement is set to None.
The experience range is 0–3 years, consistent with a genuine Junior-level role; the overall years minimum is set to 0 accordingly.
Selenium is named as the primary automated testing tool with 'or similar' — common substitutes (Cypress, Playwright) are captured in alternatives. Java, Python, and JavaScript are presented as interchangeable scripting options; Java is listed as the primary with the others as alternatives.
Jira is named as the primary defect/test-management tool with 'or similar'; Azure DevOps is the other explicitly named option and is captured as an alternative.
ISTQB Foundation certification, Agile/DevOps experience, security testing exposure, and prior government-system testing experience all appear under the 'Preferred Qualifications' heading.
An active Secret clearance is hard-gated: the posting states 'current Secret clearance required at time of hire per program needs' and requires US citizenship.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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