Software Quality Assurance Engineer and Tester

Software Quality Assurance Engineer and Tester 

Lexical Intelligence provides software and services related to processing large-scale biomedical information sources. Our Natural Language Processing (NLP) and analytics software is used by policy and decision makers to evaluate and prioritize current and emerging areas of research.

We are looking for a Software Quality Assurance Engineer and Tester with experience in software testing methodologies, quality assurance processes, and automated testing frameworks. The Software Quality Assurance Engineer and Tester will have a firm understanding of biomedical data systems, cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML applications. The Software Quality Assurance Engineer and Tester shall be able to work well within a team of scientists, software engineers, data scientists, and technical writers. The selected applicant will be subject to a pre-employment background and reference check.

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years of software quality assurance and testing experience


• Bachelor's degree or other degree(s) in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related fields


• Experience with test planning, test case development, and test execution for complex software systems


• Knowledge of software development life cycles including waterfall, agile, and hybrid methodologies


• Experience with DevOps tools such as Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, and ArgoCD


• Proficiency in testing web applications, APIs, and database systems


• Experience with automated testing frameworks and tools such as Cypress

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with biomedical data systems, scientific applications, or research tools


• Knowledge of cloud environments, particularly AWS GovCloud and NIH Enterprise Cloud (STRIDES)


• Experience with testing AI/ML applications, including natural language processing systems


• Familiarity with containerized workloads and microservices architectures


• Experience with security testing and compliance requirements for government systems


• Knowledge of Python, Java, SQL, and NoSQL database technologies


• Experience with collaborative work platforms such as Shortcut, Jira, or Confluence


• Background in testing large-scale data processing systems and analytics tools


• Experience with performance testing, load testing, and scalability assessment


• Familiarity with the Linux / POSIX commandline

Responsibilities include ensuring compliance with organizational security and privacy policies, protecting sensitive data and systems, reporting security incidents, and participating in required cybersecurity training. The role may also involve implementing best practices related to access control, data handling, and risk mitigation within the scope of assigned duties.

All candidates will be required to undergo a background check and must be authorized to work in the United States.

Salary and benefits: We offer a competitive salary and a generous benefits package, including at no cost: full health and dental for you and your dependents, retirement and HSA accounts, short- and long-term disability insurance, life and accident insurance, paid time off, and 11 federal holidays.

Location: Bethesda, MD - Hybrid (with remote work options as approved by the COR).

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy: Lexical Intelligence, LLC, provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Lexical Intelligence, LLC | 2001 Veirs Mill Rd #546 | Rockville, MD 20851