Role Description 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. 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. Requirements - 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. Benefits - 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. Company Description 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.