Mulesoft QA/Tester at Steampunk
McLean, VA
$90,000–$130,000from the description
Aug 2, 2026
McLean, VA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A QA/Tester role embedded in a federal DevSecOps and Salesforce practice, focused on integration testing for MuleSoft-based systems that connect public-sector applications. Day-to-day work spans writing test plans and cases, executing functional, regression, and integration tests, managing defects, and building out test automation infrastructure — all within an Agile, government-contract environment requiring a security clearance.
Mid level · 5+ years · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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What the occupation pays Median $106,594 (middle half $82,076–$136,109). 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 Aug 4, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting states 'Bachelor's Degree required; equivalency offered' — because equivalent experience is explicitly accepted in lieu of a degree, the degree requirement is set to None.
The clearance requirement is stated as 'must be able to maintain a U.S. Government security clearance'; a current or previous DHS CBP clearance is listed as preferred. The base gate is the ability to hold a clearance, which implies at minimum a Secret level given the federal/DHS context — classified as Secret.
Selenium, Appium, SoapUI, and RestAssured are listed together as interchangeable examples of test automation tools under the Preferred section ('tools such as'); they are grouped as alternatives. Postman is also listed in the same sentence but serves a distinct function and is kept separate.
Public Sector Foundation - Advanced (PSFA) and Public Sector Solutions (PSS) are Salesforce/MuleSoft platform configurations rather than standalone named tools; they are captured via the MuleSoft and Salesforce skills rather than as separate entries.
Testing certifications (CAST, ISTQB, CMST, DHS Trusted Tester TTv5) are listed as preferred and are not concrete technologies, so they are omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
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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