RTM Software Test Specialist Job #390
Allen Integrated Solutions · Springfield
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Jul 25, 2026
Springfield
Jul 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A coordination-heavy testing role supporting a government Release Train, focused on planning, monitoring, and reporting software test activities — including Factory Acceptance Testing, Operational Readiness Testing, and Test Readiness Reviews — against NGA/NTO standards. The work involves tracking cross-program testing dependencies, running demonstration gates, and maintaining traceability between requirements and test results using tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and Tableau within a SAFe Agile environment. Suits someone with direct NGA experience and a background in complex government IT systems testing.
Senior level · 6+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance
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How this req sits in the market our data
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What the occupation pays Median $129,128 (middle half $101,596–$152,655).
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 (7)
The role sits at the intersection of QA/test coordination and systems analysis — it involves planning, monitoring, and reporting on testing (favoring 15-1253) but also heavy cross-program coordination and stakeholder alignment work (which could support 15-1211). 15-1253 was chosen as the primary because test planning and execution oversight is the explicit core function.
Degree requirement: the JD states 'Bachelor's plus 6 years OR Master's plus 3 years.' A Bachelor's is the minimum formal degree gate; the Master's path is an alternative that reduces the experience requirement, not a higher floor.
Total years minimum is set to 6, reflecting the Bachelor's + 6 years path (the lower experience bar is the Master's + 3 years path).
NGA/NTO-specific testing processes (FAT, ORT, TRR) and direct NGA support experience are listed as required; these are domain/process requirements rather than named tools and are not emitted as skills.
Selenium and CI/CD appear only in the 'ideal candidate will' aspirational section, not in the hard Requirements block — treated as preferred.
No compensation information is provided in the posting.
Requires a TS/SCI 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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