Tuknik Government Services, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company
, is seeking a QA Test Engineer with a Secret security clearance to support TGS in supporting our government customer in the DC Metro area.This position is for a Future New Business Opportunity.
Tuknik Government Services, LLC, Koniag Government Services (KGS) is seeking qualified candidates for this role supporting our U.S. Army customer on a large-scale Army contracting systems modernization and automation program. Plans and executes functional verification for solution capabilities. The QA Test Engineer turns requirements and acceptance criteria into Government-visible evidence across Appian logic, APIs, workflows, interfaces, security roles, data, accessibility, regression, and user acceptance. This is a contingent recruiting profile; the opening, employing subsidiary, compensation, work location, and staffing remain subject to final contract authorization.
Essential Functions, Responsibilities & Duties may include, but are not limited to:- Develop test strategies, plans, cases, data, expected results, traceability, and execution schedules for changes and migration waves.
- Test Appian expression rules, application logic, interfaces, Record Types, process models, security groups, and business workflows.
- Assess and reuse Government-furnished FitNesse/Selenium assets before creating replacement or supplemental regression tests.
- Execute smoke, functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, negative, accessibility, role-based access, and user-acceptance testing.
- Validate APIs, authentication, schemas, transformations, error handling, and external interface behavior using approved tools.
- Verify migration reconciliation, document-to-record relationships, calculations, permissions, audit history, and reporting parity.
- Record defects with reproducible evidence, severity, expected behavior, affected requirements, and retest results.
- Maintain test evidence and release-readiness status in Government-approved repositories and dashboards.
- Support deployment verification, rollback testing, production observation, and escaped-defect analysis.
- Coordinate with users, developers, security specialists, and the Government Product Owner to confirm acceptance.
Education and Experience Required:- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field; additional relevant experience may substitute for education.
- Four or more years of software quality assurance and test experience for enterprise web or workflow applications.
- Experience with manual and automated functional testing, defect management, requirements traceability, test data, and release evidence.
- Working knowledge of APIs, relational data, role-based security, accessibility, and Agile/DevSecOps delivery.
- U.S. citizenship and the active security clearance or eligibility required for the assigned work by the start of performance, with ongoing eligibility thereafter.
- Ability to communicate clearly with Government, technical, and business stakeholders and to maintain accurate work records in approved systems.
- Ability to protect Controlled Unclassified Information and classified information, when assigned, and comply with required access, training, and handling procedures.
Education and Experience Required:- Experience testing Appian applications with FitNesse, Selenium/WebDriver, Postman, SoapUI, Cypress, or comparable tools.
- Experience validating Federal acquisition, financial, records-management, or other audit-sensitive workflows.
- ISTQB, Appian, accessibility, or Agile testing certification.
Education and Experience Desired:- Functional, integration, regression, and UAT testing
- Appian and workflow test design
- API, data, security, and accessibility validation
- Defect analysis and traceability
- Government-visible test evidence
Work Environment and Travel:Work may occur remotely when authorized, at Government facilities, or in controlled office and data-center environments. Work involving classified information or SIPRNet will be performed at a Government-approved secure location using authorized systems. The role generally supports Government business hours, with occasional release, incident-response, maintenance-window, or approved travel requirements. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
