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Posted: July 8, 2026

I. Position Summary

Karthik Consulting is seeking one Quality Assurance Engineer to support USPS Customer Tools by ensuring the quality, reliability, and successful deployment of application releases across staging and production environments.

Work Environment

Work Location: Remote

Compensation

Karthik Consulting is committed to providing competitive compensation based on the responsibilities of the role, required qualifications, security clearance level, relevant experience, certifications, customer requirements, geographic location, and overall business needs. The salary range listed for this position represents a good-faith estimate of the current compensation range for this role.

At Karthik Consulting, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the salary range. Final compensation decisions are based on the facts and circumstances of each candidate’s experience, qualifications, certifications, clearance level, contract requirements, and overall alignment with the role.

A reasonable estimate of the current salary range for this position is $80,000 to $85,000 annually.

Employees may be eligible for company benefits and additional compensation programs, subject to company policy, contract requirements, and individual eligibility.

II. Role Context

Role Overview

The Quality Assurance Engineer will design, execute, and document manual test cases in staging and production, provide clear production deployment sign-off, validate release functionality, and support continuous improvement of testing practices.

Testing Scope

Testing includes requirements review, test data preparation, functional and regression testing, defect tracking, deployment validation, smoke testing, production verification, and gradual transition of manual test cases into automated Playwright scripts.

What You’ll Do

As a Quality Assurance Engineer for USPS Customer Tools, you will work closely with developers, stakeholders, and release teams to confirm that application releases are fully tested, defects are documented and resolved, and production deployments are validated with clear evidence and sign-off.

The Quality Assurance Engineer will provide release validation support by confirming deployment and configuration accuracy, executing production smoke tests, validating critical workflows, reviewing logs and system alerts, documenting evidence, and communicating clear production sign-off recommendations to stakeholders.

Over time, the engineer will transition repeatable manual test cases into Playwright automated scripts, helping build and maintain a reliable automated regression suite that improves release confidence and testing efficiency.

Responsibilities

Review test requirements, specifications, and documentation for each release in both staging and production environments.
Prepare and manage test data for each release across staging and production environments.
Design, execute, and document functional test cases in staging and production.
Perform regression testing to ensure new changes do not break existing functionality.
Log, track, and prioritize defects found in staging and production using ALM and VersionOne.
Collaborate with developers to verify defect fixes in staging and production.
Validate deployments and configurations in staging and production environments.
Execute smoke tests in production to confirm basic functionality post-deployment.
Monitor application logs and system alerts for issues and escalate findings as needed.
Document test results with detailed evidence, steps performed, test coverage, outstanding issues, and production sign-off information.
Create and manage automated regression tests using Playwright as manual test cases mature.

Testing Activities Include

Functional Testing: Design and execute test cases to validate documented requirements and critical workflows.
Regression Testing: Confirm new changes do not negatively impact existing application functionality.
Smoke Testing: Execute production smoke tests after deployment to confirm basic application functionality.
Sanity Testing: Validate key workflows in staging and production following releases or configuration changes.
Automation: Transition repeatable manual test cases into Playwright automated scripts for a robust regression suite.

III. Required Qualifications

Minimum of 2 years of experience in software quality assurance or software testing.
Minimum of 1 year of experience in load testing using Azure Load Test Suite and jMeter.
Minimum of 1 year of experience testing applications within Google Cloud Platform, IBM WebSphere, and Wildfly application environments.
Experience designing, executing, and documenting manual test cases in staging and production environments.
Experience logging, tracking, prioritizing, and validating defects using ALM and VersionOne.
Ability to prepare production sign-off documentation with test coverage, results, evidence, and outstanding issues.
Strong attention to detail, analytical skills, written and verbal communication, and commitment to continuous improvement.

Desired Technical Skills

Playwright for automated regression testing.
ALM and VersionOne for defect logging, tracking, prioritization, and reporting.
Azure Load Test Suite and jMeter for load testing.
Google Cloud Platform application testing experience.
IBM WebSphere and Wildfly application environment testing.
Application log and system alert monitoring.
Regression, smoke, sanity, functional, staging, and production testing practices.