Software Quality Assurance Specialist / Tester
Full TimeJob Overview
REQUIRED: Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
LOCATION: Full-time onsite in Herndon, VA
We’re seeking a Software QA Specialist with deep, hands‑on expertise in Selenium WebDriver, automated Java test development, and SQL‑driven data validation across Oracle, Postgres, and MySQL.
Who We Are:
We offer advanced services in data science, data engineering, software engineering, AI solutions, cybersecurity, staff augmentation, and IT program management.
Passionate Integrity, Driven by Excellence
Ardent Principles offers a competitive salary range and a comprehensive, industry‑leading benefits package designed to support long‑term stability and employee well‑being. We provide more than a position—we offer a workplace committed to excellence, integrity, and mission‑focused impact. Our mission is to act as a bridge between satisfied clients and fulfilled employees, ensuring that your job and well-being are our top priorities because your satisfaction leads to the success of our clients.
Join us as we continue building the future of secure, high‑impact solutions.
LOCATION: Full-time onsite in Herndon, VA
We’re seeking a Software QA Specialist with deep, hands‑on expertise in Selenium WebDriver, automated Java test development, and SQL‑driven data validation across Oracle, Postgres, and MySQL.
Who We Are:
We offer advanced services in data science, data engineering, software engineering, AI solutions, cybersecurity, staff augmentation, and IT program management.
Passionate Integrity, Driven by Excellence
Ardent Principles offers a competitive salary range and a comprehensive, industry‑leading benefits package designed to support long‑term stability and employee well‑being. We provide more than a position—we offer a workplace committed to excellence, integrity, and mission‑focused impact. Our mission is to act as a bridge between satisfied clients and fulfilled employees, ensuring that your job and well-being are our top priorities because your satisfaction leads to the success of our clients.
Join us as we continue building the future of secure, high‑impact solutions.
Key Responsibilities
In this challenging yet rewarding role, you are an integral part of what brings our Company's mission to life. The following are required skills, certifications and demonstrated experience in and/or with:
- SQL queries for data validation (Oracle, Postgres, MySQL)
- Expert in Selenium WebDriver
- Emphasis of experience must be in the area of writing automated code (Java) as opposed to simply click and record
- Must be able to evaluate developer assignments, independently understand requirements, and engineer tests to evaluate best path scenario as well as probe for possible failure conditions
- Must know to use an IDE to code (ex - IntelliJ, Eclipse, NetBeans)
- Interacting in a Linux environment (ex - Bash scripting, vi)
- Expertise in writing test plans, cases, procedures, scripts, and scenarios
- Demonstrated history with manual and automated test processes
- Ability to work well in a constantly evolving work environment
- Ensuring the QA and testing approach references all known vulnerabilities and best practices
- Conduct and report testing using a repeatable process based on industry best practices
- Maintaining and updating the test environment
- Must have development skills, as automated testing is a lot of writing code.
- Solid hands-on experience testing experience with testing tools such as JMeter and /or Selenium.
Highly Desired Qualifications
Other skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not mandatory to perform the work, include: