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Software Tester

Inherent Technologies
Washington, DC Full Time
POSTED ON 7/18/2026 CLOSED ON 8/4/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Tester position at Inherent Technologies?

Position: Software Tester

Location: ***Remote***

Duration: 1 Year

4.67 Lead II - Software Testing

Role Name: Lead II - Software Testing

Expectations From This Role

Create and Organise testing process based on project requirement and manage test activities within team, for the following

  • Test Estimates and Schedules-. Ensure Test Coverage
  • Produce test results, defect reports, test logs, and reports to evidence for testing
  • Publish RCA reports and preventive measures
  • Ensure Quality of Deliverables
  • Report project metrics and status
  • Ensure adherence of Engineering practices, processes and standards
  • Understand and contribute to test automation/performance testing
  • Work with DevOps team, when required; to understand testing framework and QA process for implementing continuous testing

Typical Performance Measures

  • Test Script Creation and Execution Productivity
  • Defect Leakage Metrics (% of defect leaked, % of UAT defects and % of Production defects)
  • % of Test case reuse
  • Test execution Coverage
  • Defect Acceptance Ratio
  • Test Review efficiency
  • On-time delivery, Effort Variance
  • Test Automation Coverage

Performance Areas

Supporting Organization:

Ensure utilization and quality of deliverables prepared by the team

Co-ordinate Test Environment and Test Data provisioning

Test Design, Development, Execution

Participate in review, walkthrough, demo and obtain sign off by stakeholder

Prepare Test Summary Report for modules/features

Requirements Management

Analyse, Prioritize, Identify Gaps; create workflow diagrams based on Requirements/User stories

Manage Project

Participate in Test management

Preparing, Tracking and Reporting of Test progress based on schedule

Domain Relevance

Identify business processes, conduct risk analysis and ensure test coverage

Estimate

Prepare Estimate, Schedule, Identify dependencies

Knowledge Management

Consume, Contribute, Review (Best Practices, Lesson learned, Retrospective)

Test Design, Execution

Test Plan preparation, Test Case/Script Creation, Test Execution

Risk Identification

Identification of risk/issues and prepare Mitigation and Contingency plans

Test & Defect Management

Conduct root cause and trend analysis of the defects

Test Planning

Identify the test scenarios with understanding of systems, interfaces and application

Identify end-to-end business critical scenarios with less support Create and review the test scenarios and prepare RTM

Prepare estimates (time /effort) based on the requirements/User stories

Identify scope of testing

Client Management

Define KPIs to the engagement and ensure adherence to these KPIs.

Stakeholder Connect

Handle monthly/weekly governance calls and represent issues for the team

Skill Examples

  • Ability to Create, Review and manage a test plan
  • Ability to prepare schedules based on estimates
  • Ability to track, report progress and take corrective measures on need basis
  • Ability to identify test scenarios and prepare RTM
  • Ability to analyze requirement/user stories and prioritize testing
  • Ability to carry out RCA
  • Ability to capture and report metrics
  • Ability to identify Test Data and Test Env. Specifications

Knowledge Examples

  • Knowledge of Estimation techniques
  • Knowledge of Testing standards
  • Knowledge of identifying the scope of testing
  • Knowledge of RCA Techniques
  • Knowledge of Test design techniques
  • Knowledge of Test methodologies
  • Knowledge of scope identification and planning
  • Knowledge of Test automation tools and frameworks

Need Candidate with automation testing, appium, mobile testing, tosca, selenium

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