Functional Tester (Washington, DC)
Summary
A functional tester supporting a federal product team: planning, executing, and documenting manual functional, regression, and smoke tests, ensuring requirement traceability and 508 accessibility, and supporting API-level automated testing with Swagger/OpenAPI. Requires 5+ years testing experience, active TS clearance, and onsite work in Washington, DC.
The work:
The Functional Tester will support the product team by planning, executing, and documenting functional, regression, and smoke testing activities across a modern services-based application environment. This role focuses on validating requirements, ensuring traceability, and supporting high‑quality feature delivery. Candidates should be comfortable executing structured manual testing with some exposure to modern automated testing tools (Swagger/OpenAPI, unit-level testing).
Key Responsibilities:
Execute requirement‑level functional tests, smoke tests, and regression test cycles. Create, document, and maintain test cases, test data, and test results in Jira or similar tools. Validate defects, isolate issues, reproduce failures, and coordinate retest activities. Ensure adherence to 508 accessibility requirements. Support automated testing efforts where possible (API testing tools, Swagger/OpenAPI validation, unit test review). Ensure end‑to‑end traceability between requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and test cases. Participate in backlog refinement and requirement clarification sessions with the Product Owner and Business Analysts. Provide feedback to developers and product staff regarding system behavior, edge cases, and risk areas. Support integration testing and verification of data flows across services as needed.
Here's what you need:
- 5+ years of testing experience.
- Experience performing functional, regression, and smoke testing.
- Familiarity with API testing, Swagger/OpenAPI, and basic automated testing concepts.
- Understanding of Agile delivery and iterative testing approaches.
- Ability to translate acceptance criteria and requirements into clean, repeatable test cases.
- Active TS clearance required.
- Must be willing to work onsite in Washington, DC.
As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland. The base pay range for this position in these locations is shown below. Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.
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