QA Tester
Steampunk · McLean, VA
$90,000–$130,000from the description
Jul 24, 2026
McLean, VA
Jul 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A QA/Tester role supporting federal government clients within DevSecOps and Salesforce practices. Day-to-day work involves writing test plans and cases, managing test data, performing various forms of testing (functional, performance, accessibility, data validation), and building automated testing infrastructure integrated into CI/CD pipelines. Suited to experienced testers comfortable in Agile environments who can obtain a U.S. Government security clearance.
Mid level · 5+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $129,128 (middle half $101,596–$152,655). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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 (6)
The clearance requirement is listed as 'Public Trust' in the job metadata, but the body states candidates 'must be able to maintain a U.S. Government security clearance' and notes a preference for 'Current or previous DHS CBP Clearance.' Public Trust is not a formal security clearance tier (Confidential/Secret/TS), but the ability to obtain/maintain a clearance is a hard gate; mapped to Secret as the closest applicable tier given the federal contracting context and DHS CBP reference.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's Degree required; equivalency offered' — because equivalent experience is explicitly accepted in lieu of a degree, this is treated as no hard degree gate.
Selenium, Appium, SoapUI, and RestAssured are listed together as interchangeable examples of test automation tools under the Preferred section; Postman is also listed there and emitted separately as it serves a distinct API-testing function.
The role title carries no seniority level word; advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 5-year experience requirement and scope (individual contributor on a team, writing test plans and cases) support a Mid-level classification.
The alt SOC (15-1252 Software Developers) is noted because the role includes some DevSecOps pipeline integration and continuous improvement engineering responsibilities, though the primary day-to-day work is clearly QA/testing.
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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