Quality Assurance Tester / Front-End Developer

Savan Group is seeking a Quality Assurance Tester / Front-End Developer to support the HUB application, an enterprise application used to manage and report on EPMO processes and workflows. This is a QA-first hybrid role with primary emphasis on functional quality, regression coverage, role-based workflow validation, usability, and release confidence. The selected candidate will work closely with developers, program leadership, testers, and business users to validate requirements, identify defects before release, improve user-facing behavior, and contribute small-to-medium front-end changes when needed. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Plan and execute manual functional, regression, smoke, and exploratory testing across new features, bug fixes, and releases. 

• Validate workflows from the perspective of different user roles, including role-based permissions, edit rights, visibility, approvals, and other authorization-dependent behavior. 

• Write clear, reusable test cases with expected results, test data, prerequisites, and evidence sufficient for repeatable regression testing. 

• Reproduce defects consistently and document concise reproduction steps, expected versus actual behavior, screenshots or other evidence, severity, and impacted roles/workflows. 

• Review requirements and acceptance criteria before development is complete to identify ambiguity, missing edge cases, usability risks, and testability gaps. 

• Implement targeted front-end fixes and enhancements using React, TypeScript, Material UI (MUI), and React Query / TanStack Query, including component behavior, forms, tables, filtering, validation, data fetching/caching, state synchronization, and responsive layout. 

• Evaluate usability and accessibility of user-facing changes, including keyboard behavior, labels, focus, readable states, error messaging, and Section 508/WCAG considerations. 

• Use browser developer tools, API responses, logs, and basic SQL queries to isolate whether issues originate in the UI, API, data, permissions, or environment. 

• Maintain disciplined Azure DevOps work-item updates and test evidence so defects, retests, release readiness, and production verification are traceable. 

• Support release validation in Test and production, including post-deployment verification of critical workflows and role-sensitive functionality. 

• Partner with developers and stakeholders to challenge confusing behavior and propose practical user-experience improvements that reduce errors and support effort. 

• Contribute to regression-suite maintenance and continuously identify high-risk workflows that should be added to recurring release testing. 

Required Qualifications and Capabilities 

• Professional experience building, testing, or supporting modern web applications in a production environment. 

• Demonstrated manual functional and regression testing experience, including the ability to translate requirements and acceptance criteria into repeatable test cases. 

• Hands-on React and TypeScript experience, or comparable front-end framework experience with the ability to become productive in React/TypeScript quickly; familiarity with component libraries and client-side data-fetching patterns used in modern React applications. 

• Ability to document high-quality defect reproduction steps and communicate technical issues clearly to developers and non-technical stakeholders. 

• Working knowledge of browser developer tools and basic API concepts for troubleshooting web-application behavior. 

• Basic SQL literacy sufficient to validate data, investigate discrepancies, and collaborate effectively with backend/database developers. 

• Experience validating role-based permissions, user workflows, field behavior, error conditions, and edge cases. 

• Awareness of accessibility and Section 508/WCAG principles for user-facing web applications. 

• Experience working with Azure DevOps, Jira, or a comparable work-management platform to maintain defects, acceptance evidence, and release traceability. 

• Strong attention to detail, analytical problem-solving, communication, accountability, adaptability, and ability to work collaboratively in an iterative delivery environment. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with Material UI (MUI), MUI Data Grid or similar component libraries, and table-heavy business applications or complex enterprise forms and workflows. 

• Experience with React Query / TanStack Query or comparable client-side server-state/data-fetching libraries, including query invalidation, caching, loading/error states, and API-driven UI behavior. Experience validating front ends that integrate with REST APIs and .NET or comparable backend services. 

• Experience working in a React 18 / TypeScript environment using MUI, MUI Data Grid, and TanStack Query / React Query is strongly preferred. 

• Experience with SQL Server or similar relational databases. 

• Exposure to automated UI or API testing tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Postman, or comparable tools. Automation is helpful but is not the primary requirement for this role. 

• Experience supporting federal government applications, Section 508 testing, or environments with formal release and evidence requirements. 

• Experience participating in Agile sprint delivery, defect triage, release readiness reviews, and production verification.