Accenture
Quality Engineer
$95K–$169K
Washington, DC +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Location
- Washington, DC
Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Experience
- Professional experience required; no number of years specified.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience is a bonus, not a requirement.
- Visa sponsorship
- U.S. citizenship required. Applicants must have U.S. work authorization that does not now or in the future require visa sponsorship.
About the job
Builds and maintains automated testing and quality practices for federal applications and releases, integrating validation into delivery and supporting reliable release decisions.
What you'll do
- Design, execute, and maintain automated UI, API, integration, regression, smoke, and end-to-end tests.
- Partner with delivery teams to define acceptance criteria, assess quality risks, and integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines.
- Create test plans, defect workflows, reporting, and quality metrics; support performance, security, accessibility, and reliability validation.
What they ask for
- Professional experience in software quality engineering, test automation, SDET, QA automation, or comparable validation work, or equivalent practical experience.
- Hands-on experience with one or more automation frameworks or tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Appium, JUnit, or PyTest.
- Experience testing APIs, web applications, integrations, data flows, or cloud-based applications.
- Understanding of test design, regression testing, defect management, acceptance criteria, and quality metrics; experience with source control, Agile teams, and automated build or deployment processes.
Nice to have
- Experience with performance testing, security testing, accessibility, Section 508, or compliance validation.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience; federal delivery experience is also a plus.
Pay
$95,400 — $169,000 USD base pay
Tools
Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Appium, JUnit, PyTest, JMeter, Jenkins
AI focus
Uses AFS-approved AI-assisted testing and engineering tools to accelerate test design, automation, analysis, defect investigation, and documentation, while validating results.
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