Full-Time
Quality Assurance Engineer
ClinicalTrials.gov
NIH-NCBI
Biomedical research information
No salary listed
No H1B Sponsorship
Bethesda, MD, USA
Remote
Must reside in or relocate to the local Bethesda area at own expense; all work must be performed within the United States.
Bachelor's
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- A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of quality assurance experience for web-based or enterprise applications.
- Experience testing complex, data-driven systems.
- Experience validating requirements and identifying gaps early in the development lifecycle.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and documentation skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
- Must reside in and be authorized to work in the United States.
- Must be local to the Bethesda area or willing to relocate at personal expense.
- All work must be performed within the United States.
- Develop and execute test strategies and test plans for complex, data-driven applications.
- Analyze requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to identify gaps, risks, and ambiguities.
- Partner with Product and Business Analysts to clarify requirements and expected behavior.
- Identify edge cases, regression risks, and impacts across integrated systems.
- Execute and document functional, regression, integration, cross-browser, and cross-device testing.
- Validate API integrations and data flows between frontend and backend systems.
- Compare legacy and modern system behavior to ensure consistent outcomes.
- Ensure backward compatibility and functional parity with the legacy system.
- Track, document, and verify defect resolution.
- Contribute to improving QA standards, tools, and best practices across the program.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Collaborate with frontend and backend engineers during development and testing.
- Provide early and continuous feedback to help teams build quality into the product.
- Support release validation and readiness activities.
- Assist with troubleshooting production and pre-production issues as needed.
- Experience supporting federal government or large enterprise systems.
- Experience testing systems requiring legacy parity or backward compatibility.
- Experience testing REST APIs and backend services.
- Experience in healthcare, life sciences, or regulated environments.
- Experience with test automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar.
- Experience with Git and GitLab.
- Experience with Jira and Confluence.
The National Center for Biotechnology Information is a biomedical information center within the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. NCBI develops and maintains databases, search systems and computational resources used to access scientific literature, genomic data and other biomedical information. Researchers, clinicians and the public use services including PubMed and related data platforms. This description follows the NIH and NCBI institutional identity, as directed, and does not treat the external contractor applicant system as the organization itself.
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