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This role develops and maintains requirements and technical specifications, plans and executes customer acceptance and production validation testing, develops manual and automated test scripts, prepares testing artifacts and traceability documentation, and collaborates with customer stakeholders and mail-industry working groups.\n\nResponsibilities:\n\nDevelop Software Requirements Specification (SRS) documents to support functional requirements affecting Mail.dat and Mail.XML technical file specifications.\nManage, update, and maintain all currently supported technical specifications and guides, and develop new specifications and guides as necessary to support new or revised functionality across systems.\nSupport Customer Acceptance Testing (CAT) by reviewing Technical Requirements Documents (TRDs), developing and updating test scripts, performing customer acceptance testing, and conducting production validation through smoke and functional testing.\nDocument testing outcomes and provide supporting test artifacts, Technical Lifecycle Support Cycle (TLSC) documentation, and Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTMs).\nProvide subject-matter expertise and participate in mail-industry meetings and forums, including Mailer Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) workgroups, task groups, and user groups.\nDevelop performance metrics to track and report the status of Customer Acceptance Testing.\nDevelop automated test scripts.\nDevelop training materials, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and guides related to impacted CPPP applications.\nPerform other related duties as assigned.\n\nRequirements:\n\nMinimum of 5-7 years of experience; experience in technology or software development is preferred.\nExperience eliciting and documenting business processes and requirements.\nExperience creating manual and automated test scripts, performing Customer Acceptance Testing or User Acceptance Testing, documenting test results, and providing test artifacts.\nExperience performing production validation through smoke, regression, and functional testing, documenting test results, and providing test artifacts.\nExperience working with data files and formats such as CSV, XML, and JSON, and with relational databases.\nExperience with Microsoft 365 tools, including Excel, Word, Project, Visio, Access, and Workflow.\nExperience with API testing using Postman, SoapUI, or similar tools.\nExperience with software test management using Agile and/or Waterfall methodologies.\nExperience using automation tools.\nMust be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring detailed forms and fingerprinting.\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\n\nHands-on knowledge of a scripting language such as SQL, Java, or Python.\nSoftware testing certification.\nExperience with Mail.dat and Mail.XML specifications is highly desired but not required; these specifications are fundamental to the electronic exchange of mailing information.\nDemonstrated experience with an automation testing tool that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) or similar technology.","company":"Red Cedar Consultancy","rawCompany":"red cedar consultancy","city":"Washington","state":"DC","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-27T13:17:45.781Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1253.00","title":"Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers","slug":"software-quality-assurance-analysts-and-testers"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"17-2112.02","title":"Validation Engineers","slug":"validation-engineers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Software Testing & Quality Engineer","description":"Job Title: Software Testing and Quality Engineer\n\nLocation: Onsite - Washington, DC\n\nSummary: Red Cedar seeks a Software Testing and Quality Engineer to support the customer. 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