Quality Assurance Engineer III (Remote)

This is a remote position.

Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.

Work on things that matter

Our collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government approaches technology.

Built for a remote life

Our culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers.

Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture

Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works.

The Federal Civilian business unit supports many customers spanning the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include NASA, the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the Library of Congress, Health & Human Services, and the FDIC. We partner with these agencies to build new capabilities, deliver products, establish data as a strategic asset for informed decision-making, modernize legacy systems, and build the digital service infrastructure necessary to scale their mission impact.

Primary Responsibilities:

Quality Assurance Engineer III serves as an emerging individual contributor within a team, expanding your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With the support and guidance of leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. You will interact with stakeholders and utilize influential skills to drive improvements in engineering processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Quality Assurance Engineer III include:

• Exhibits a comprehensive understanding of the business, how practices interact, and what customer problems we're solving

• Estimates, designs, and develops test cases as well as manual and automated testing with little feedback and guidance from their team

• Able to lead the development of a variety of test suites and partner with the team on including them in the software development lifecycle

• Anticipates coverage needed for automation tools and frameworks and proactively provides it

• Proactively writes boilerplate and exploratory test cases that cover unique or new functionality/ technology

• Able to extend program testing strategies to provide plans to teams for new functionality/ technology

• Participates in planning sessions, demonstrating understanding of overall testing strategy for the program, CI/CD delivery models, etc.

• Actively participates in design and ensures building systems that are testable in the outset

• Supports recruiting efforts by evaluating homework assignments and potentially assisting with interviews

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience

  • Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education

• Establish and maintain a process for evaluating software and associated documentation

• Determine the resources required for quality control

• Maintain the level of quality throughout the software life cycle

• Conduct formal and informal revies at pre-determined points throughout the development life cycle

• Provide daily supervision and direction to support staff

• Progressive experience with relevant technologies, understands roles with which they interact and how their work impacts business goal

• Demonstrates moderate knowledge in testing methodologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior government contracting experience

To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit:https://adhocteam.us/join

Benefits:

• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance


• Flexible PTO


• 401K with employer match


• Paid parental leave after one year of service


• Employee Assistance Program

Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.

In support of various state and city equal pay transparency laws, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $75,000 - $85,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.