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Lead Test Engineer Category: Testing/Quality Assurance
Main location: United States, Virginia, Fairfax
Position ID:J1026-2936
Employment Type: Full Time
Position Description: Lead the testing and quality strategy for a large, multi team development effort supporting mission critical client operations. As the Lead Test Engineer, you'll establish and drive a comprehensive testing approach across teams, emphasizing automation, end to end test coverage, requirements traceability, and actionable quality metrics that increase release confidence. This role is ideal for a quality leader who enjoys partnering with development and engineering teams to identify issues earlier, reduce delivery risk, and build a scalable, repeatable quality discipline that supports ongoing modernization efforts.
Your future duties and responsibilities: Test Planning & Management
* Lead planning and management of major testing assignments for enterprise applications.
* Develop and execute automated, integration, interface, and end to end test strategies.
* Coordinate testing activities across development, integration, and business teams.
Integration Testing
* Validate data exchanges and workflows across interconnected systems, APIs, interfaces, and external applications.
* Analyze test results, identify integration defects and risks, and recommend corrective actions to ensure system quality.
Technical Leadership & Collaboration
* Serve as a testing expert across multiple projects, guiding best practices for testing, data validation, and integration quality.
* Supervise and mentor testing professionals; support team growth and capability development.
Continuous Improvement & Quality Assurance
* Recommend improvements to support system quality and project success.
* Evaluate system performance and integration outcomes to ensure successful end to end processing.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role: 10-14 years of software testing and quality assurance experience.
Strong hands on automated testing and implementation experience.
Experience with system to system, integration, interface, API, and end to end testing.
Ability to validate data exchanges and workflows across interconnected applications.
Experience planning and leading major testing assignments.
Ability to analyze test results, identify integration risks, and recommend corrective actions.
Experience coordinating testing across development, integration, and business teams.
Demonstrated technical leadership across complex or high impact projects.
Candidates must have experience in the following:
• Test Strategy & Planning: Enterprise test strategy, test plans, test cases, test scenarios, test coverage, and quality gates.
• System Integration Testing: End to end integration testing across multiple applications, systems, interfaces, and business processes.
• Test Automation: Selenium or equivalent tools, UI/API automation, reusable test frameworks, and automated regression testing.
• API & Database Testing: REST API testing, Postman or equivalent tools, SQL queries, database validation, and data reconciliation.
• Performance & Scalability Testing: Load, stress, endurance, and performance testing methodologies and tools.
• Test Data Management: Test data strategy, provisioning, data quality management, synthetic/masked data creation, and data integrity validation.
• DevSecOps & CI/CD: Integration of automated testing within CI/CD pipelines and implementation of automated quality gates.
• Defect Management: Defect triage, root cause analysis, defect tracking, resolution management, and quality metrics reporting.
• Requirements Traceability: Requirements to test case traceability, test coverage reporting, and maintenance of execution evidence.
• Test Readiness & Governance: Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs), entry and exit criteria, test status reporting, and release readiness assessments.
• Agile Delivery: Agile/Scrum methodologies, sprint based testing, continuous testing practices, and cross functional team collaboration.
Desired Qualifications
The following experience are also preferred:
• Cloud Testing: AWS, Azure, and cloud native application testing.
• Microservices & Integration: Kafka, event driven architectures, distributed systems, and asynchronous interfaces.
• Security Testing: SAST, DAST, vulnerability scanning, authentication testing, and authorization testing.
• Federal Compliance: NIST 800 53, Authority to Operate (ATO), federal security controls, and compliance testing.
• Accessibility Testing: Section 508 and WCAG compliance testing.
• Data Pipeline Testing: ETL processes, data ingestion, transformation validation, and large volume data testing.
• Infrastructure Testing: Resilience, failover, disaster recovery, and high availability testing.
• AI Assisted Testing: AI driven test automation, test case generation, and defect analytics.
• Operational Readiness: Operational Readiness Reviews (ORR), production readiness assessments, and supporting evidence development.
• Multi Vendor Integration: Coordination and execution of enterprise testing across multiple vendors, teams, and systems.
CGI Federal's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:
. Competitive compensation
. Comprehensive insurance options
. Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
. Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
. Paid parental leave
. Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
. Wellness and Well being programs
CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $79,600.00 $194,000.00.
Skills: - Agile Testing
- End-to-End Testing
- Integration testing
- Test automation
- Test planning & implementation
