Software Quality Assurance Engineer
ASRC Federal · Arlington, VA
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Jun 30, 2026
Arlington, VA
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A software quality assurance role supporting a government customer, focused on functional, regression, unit, and system testing across the software development lifecycle. The work involves writing test cases, documenting results, collaborating with an automation team, and participating in scrum ceremonies. Suits a candidate with hands-on testing experience, SQL skills, and the ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
Mid level · 3+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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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)
The posting states the work arrangement is 'Hybrid/Remote (must live in the DC metro area)' and notes the arrangement could change to full-time onsite. Per caller instruction, this is being treated as fully remote with a national candidate pool, and no metro has been recorded.
Clearance: the JD gates on the ability to obtain a Secret clearance (US citizenship required); an active Secret is described as 'desired' rather than required. Clearance is set to Secret as the hard gate is the ability to obtain one.
Test automation appears in the Requirements section only as supporting the automation team ('Working with the automation team to support test automation'), which is a collaborative responsibility rather than a hard skill gate. It is also listed under Desired as 'experience with both manual and automated testing', so it is marked preferred.
ETL testing and SOA testing appear explicitly under the 'Desired' heading and are marked preferred accordingly.
No compensation figures are provided; the posting only describes a general pay/benefits philosophy.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): test case development.
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.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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