Senior QA Automation & Validation Specialist at A-TEK Inc.
Rockville, MD
$125,000–$145,000from the description
Aug 11, 2026
Rockville, MD
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An independent QA and test automation specialist role supporting NIH enterprise applications, providing oversight separate from the O&M contractor's testing staff. Day-to-day work involves executing and maintaining UiPath automated test scripts, conducting functional, regression, integration, and release testing, reviewing requirements and test artifacts, and reporting independent findings to NIH leadership. Suited to an experienced QA professional comfortable working in a federal environment with minimal supervision.
Senior level · 7+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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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 $129,128 (middle half $101,596–$152,655). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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Why we read it this way (8)
The role is tagged '#LI-OnSite', confirming on-site work; the NIH campus is in Bethesda, MD, placing this in the Washington DC CBSA.
The 7-year minimum is for overall QA/testing experience; the 3-year minimum is specifically for automated testing experience — both are stated in the Required Qualifications section.
UiPath is listed in Required Qualifications with 'or a comparable automated testing platform', so the requirement is for automated testing platform proficiency with UiPath as the named primary tool; well-known alternatives are captured accordingly.
UiPath Test Suite is listed separately under Required Qualifications but is effectively the same tool family as UiPath — it is retained as a distinct preferred skill because the posting also lists UiPath certification/formal training under Preferred Qualifications, suggesting deeper UiPath Test Suite expertise is aspirational rather than a hard gate.
Oracle Application Express and Oracle-based financial/administrative systems experience appear only under Preferred Qualifications.
CI/CD integration experience and Section 508 testing knowledge appear only under Preferred Qualifications.
NIH/HHS experience and federal environment experience are listed as preferred but are not concrete named technologies, so they are omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Defect management.
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