Software Quality Control Engineer at Sealing Technologies, a Parsons Company
Columbia, MD
$127,000–$185,000
Aug 9, 2026
Columbia, MD
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hybrid Software Quality Control Engineer role at a federal cybersecurity and edge-computing firm, responsible for owning software quality across the full delivery pipeline. Day-to-day work spans building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, writing automated test suites, managing Kubernetes workloads, and authoring Ansible playbooks — embedding quality gates directly into build and deployment processes rather than treating QA as a separate downstream phase.
Senior level · 8+ years · Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 15 people in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software quality assurance analysts and testers). range 8–20
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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What the occupation pays Median $132,736 (middle half $104,315–$164,234).
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Why we read it this way (5)
The role sits at the intersection of QA engineering and DevOps/platform engineering — it requires substantial infrastructure work (Kubernetes cluster setup, Ansible, CI/CD pipeline construction) alongside traditional quality responsibilities. 15-1253 was chosen because quality ownership and test automation are the stated primary mission, but 15-1252 is a genuine runner-up given the depth of build/deploy engineering required.
A Bachelor's degree is listed as a minimum qualification but the posting explicitly states 'equivalent experience may be considered,' so the degree requirement is set to None.
An active Secret clearance is listed under Preferred Qualifications only ('or ability to obtain one'), so it does not gate the role and the clearance requirement is set to None.
Performance and load testing tools are listed as preferred but no specific tool is named; no skill entry was emitted for this generic category.
Agile/Jira/Confluence appear under Preferred Qualifications; Jira and Confluence are captured as preferred. Agile itself is a methodology, not a named tool, and was omitted per extraction rules.
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