The Senior Tester enables full-stack solution delivery by contributing to multidisciplinary team planning and integration across the application ecosystem. This role accelerates delivery and drives quality throughout the application lifecycle by designing, executing, and continuously improving testing practices. The Senior Tester performs continuous testing activities, including security testing, API validation, and ongoing regression suite maintenance to ensure solutions are reliable, secure, and high performing. This role is also responsible for defining the automation strategy, developing automated test scripts, and supporting test data and environment configuration to achieve consistent and repeatable test execution. The Senior Tester actively participates in code reviews, monitors and reports defects, and partners closely with cross-functional teams to improve end-to-end testing processes. Their work ensures that solutions are delivered with high levels of quality, performance, and reliability. Key Responsibilities Enable full-stack solution delivery through collaborative, multidisciplinary team planning and integration within the application ecosystem. Perform continuous testing, including security validation, API testing, and maintenance of regression test suites. Develop and execute automation strategies, create automated test scripts, and support test data and environment configuration. Participate in code reviews to ensure quality, maintainability, and adherence to testing and development best practices. Identify, document, and track defects using established processes and tools, ensuring clear communication of impact and priority. Monitor testing outcomes, analyze trends, and contribute to continuous improvement activities for the end-to-end testing lifecycle. Collaborate with developers, analysts, product owners, and operations teams to ensure effective integration, validation, and regression coverage of solution components. Required Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience. 5+ years of hands-on software testing experience, including significant experience with automated testing frameworks and tools. Demonstrated experience with Windows-based enterprise environments, including testing applications on Microsoft Windows Server platforms. Proven experience implementing and maintaining test automation in CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or similar. Experience using Jira or comparable lifecycle management or service management tools for test case management, defect tracking, and workflow coordination. Ability to obtain and maintain 8140-compliant credentials at the required level and meet client-mandated background investigation requirements. U.S. citizenship required to support staffing and clearance requirements. Preferred Qualifications Experience designing test strategies for complex, distributed, or full-stack solutions in enterprise or federal IT environments. Hands-on experience with security testing practices, including authentication, authorization, and vulnerability-focused test scenarios. Prior experience working in Agile or DevSecOps teams with continuous integration and delivery practices. Advanced certifications in software testing, automation, or DevOps tools that demonstrate depth in test engineering. Required Skills & Proficiencies Automated Testing (Advanced) Microsoft Windows Server (Advanced) Jenkins (Advanced) Atlassian Jira Service Management (Advanced) 8140 Compliant (Intermediate or Advanced) Compensation Ranges Compensation ranges for ASM Research positions vary depending on multiple factors; including but not limited to, location, skill set, level of education, certifications, client requirements, contract-specific affordability, government clearance and investigation level, and years of experience. The compensation displayed for this role is a general guideline based on these factors and is unique to each role. Monetary compensation is one component of ASM's overall compensation and benefits package for employees. EEO Requirements It is the policy of ASM that an individual's race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation or national origin are not and will not be considered in any personnel or management decisions. We affirm our commitment to these fundamental policies. All recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications is done without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, or age. All decisions on employment are made to abide by the principle of equal employment. Physical Requirements The physical requirements described in "Knowledge, Skills and Abilities" above are representative of those which must be met by an employee to successfully perform the primary functions of this job. (For example, "light office duties' or "lifting up to 50 pounds" or "some travel" required.) Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with qualifying disabilities, who are otherwise qualified, to perform the primary functions. Disclaimer The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
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