Job description
Agile Six is a people-first, remote-work company that serves shoulder-to-shoulder with federal agencies to find innovative, human-centered solutions. We build better by putting people first. We are animated by our core values of Purpose, Wholeness, Trust, Self-Management and Inclusion. We deliver our solutions in autonomous teams of self-managed professionals (no managers here!) who genuinely care about each other and the work. We know that’s our company’s purpose – and that we can only achieve it by supporting a culture where people feel valued, self-managed, and love to come to work.
The Role
Agile Six is looking for a QA Engineer to join a cross-functional team working with the Department of Veterans Affairs on an integrated patient portal experience on VA.gov. The goal of our team’s work is to improve Veterans’ digital experience by giving them one place to easily manage their VA health care, community care, disability benefits, and other information.
Please note, this position is anticipated, pending contract award response.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate within a cross-functional agile team to support the design, development, and delivery of high-quality, human-centered digital services.
- Assist in developing and executing manual and automated test cases for web and API applications.
- Effectively leverage AI tools and frameworks to generate and optimize test cases, automate UI and API testing, detect anomalies in monitoring data, identify accessibility issues, and summarize defect patterns — enhancing coverage, efficiency, and insight while maintaining rigorous oversight of test quality and relevance.
- Participate in requirements analysis and story grooming to understand user needs and acceptance criteria.
- Identify, document, and help prioritize defects, ensuring issues are communicated clearly and constructively.
- Support continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes by validating builds and releases.
- Lead efforts to monitor application performance and prevent silent failures that impact Veterans’ experiences, using tools such as Datadog or similar observability platforms.
- Execute regression, integration, and accessibility tests for all patient-facing and staff-facing features, ensuring compliance with WCAG and government security standards.
- Triage and resolve escalated defects and support tickets in coordination with development teams, including those related to patient safety and privacy.
- Actively contribute to the VA.gov Collaboration Cycle and quarterly planning processes to align testing strategies with product goals.
- Analyze and report on quality metrics (e.g., error rate, latency, submission success) to drive continuous improvement in testing and development workflows.
- Engage in pair testing, exploratory testing, and collaborative test strategy discussions.
- Contribute to improving testing processes, tools, and documentation to enhance quality and team workflows.
- Practice empathy and a user-first mindset when considering test scenarios and system behaviors.
- Embrace feedback, mentorship, and opportunities for growth within Engineering discipline and beyond.
- We expect the responsibilities of this position to shift and grow organically over time, in response to considerations such as the team’s needs and strengths, the unique strengths and interests of the selected candidate, and an evolving understanding of the delivery environment.
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of relevant experience in a software testing or quality assurance role
- Demonstrated knowledge in testing methodologies on different devices (mobile and web), operating systems, and browsers
- Experience estimating, designing, and developing test cases as well as manual and automated testing with little feedback and guidance from their team
- Experience developing a variety of test suites and partnering with the team throughout the software development lifecycle
- Experience experimenting with and/or utilizing AI tools and services to validate and increase software quality, and a strong willingness to leverage AI where appropriate to improve outcomes.
- Understanding of Agile principles and a collaborative, team-first working style.
- A proactive approach to learning and problem-solving.
- Comfort with writing clear and concise bug reports and user-centered acceptance criteria.
- Experience with at least one test automation framework (e.g., Cypress, Selenium, Playwright)
- U.S. residency for at least 3 of the last 5 years
- Some of our clients may request or require travel from time to time. If this is a concern for you, we encourage you to apply and discuss it with us at your initial interview.
Preferred Qualifications
- Software engineering experience (programming in Ruby, TypeScript, or JavaScript)
- Experience leveraging AI tools and services to validate and increase software quality in a professional capacity.
- Experience with VA.gov, healthcare, or government digital services—especially appointment scheduling, EHR integration, or FHIR.
- Familiarity with Cerner/Oracle Health Millennium APIs or similar healthcare platforms.
- Experience developing in AWS or Azure cloud environments
- Experience with continuous integration/deployment systems, Jenkins or Github Actions
- Familiarity with the US Web Design System
- Experience working with government agencies
- You are a U.S. Veteran. As a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, we recognize the transition to civilian life can be tricky, and welcome and encourage Veterans to apply
At Agile Six, we are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Even if you don’t meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. We’re eager to meet people who believe in our mission and who can contribute to our team in a variety of ways.
Salary and Sixer Benefits
To promote pay equity, we publish a salary for each position.
This role pays: $112,750.
Our benefits are designed to reinforce our core values of Wholeness, Self Management and Inclusion. The following benefits are available to all employees. We respect that only you know what balance means for your life and season. While we offer support from coaches, we expect you to own your wholeness, show up for work whole, and go home to your family the same. You will be seen, heard and valued. We expect you to offer the same for your colleagues, be kind (not bossy), be caring (not directive) and ready to participate in a state of flow. We mean it when we say “ We build better by putting people first”.
All Sixers Enjoy:
- Self-managed work/life balance and flexibility
- Competitive and equitable salary (equal pay for equal work)
- Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP) for all employees!
- 401K matching
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Employer paid short and long term disability insurance
- Employer paid life insurance
- Self-managed and generous paid time off
- Paid federal holidays and two floating holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Self-managed professional development spending
- Self-managed wellness days
Hiring practices
Note: We participate in E-Verify. Upon hire, we will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visas at this time.
If you need assistance or reasonable accommodation in applying for any of these positions, please reach out to [email protected]. We want to ensure you have the ability to apply for any position at Agile Six Please read and respond to the application questions carefully. Interviews are conducted on a rolling basis until the position has been filled.
