As a Test Engineering Manager, you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice as a team lead delivering quality assurance services to support application, cloud and data systems development. We are looking for candidates with experience with responsibility for leading a team of quality assurance and test automation professionals to drive projects in an Agile/DevSecOps environment.

Responsibilities include:

• Serve as the technical delivery leader, accountable for completion of team delivery efforts including quality oversight and client acceptance
• Foster and promote innovative thinking across the client environment
• Build and maintain client relationships, developing a strategic vision for clients and internal teams
• Handle challenging client situations and offer technical and business guidance and direction to client executives
• Manage staff and monitor performance and training needs to create skills expansion and career advancement opportunity
• Understand the needs of stakeholders and convey this to developers
• Meet with product design team to determine testing parameters
• Write test plans, create test cases, test procedures, bug reports, final QA reports for products
• Manage test data architecture definition and requests
• Troubleshoot errors and streamline the test procedures
• Test and examine code written by others and analyze results, including three or more of the following:
  • Data validation testing
  • Functional testing
  • Performance and load testing
  • Usability testing
  • Accessibility (508) testing
• Establish automated testing tools and infrastructure for test automation
• Provide validation testing of different system and data sets for cloud migrations
• Develop automated testing scripts considering parallelization and idempotency
• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes
• Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Work with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
• Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize testing software systems
• Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to DevSecOps processes and tools
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided
• Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other DevOps team members.
• Lead and manage team members
• Assist in sales and technical strategy activities beyond their current program
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided

Required

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of progressive experience in test engineering, including leadership or management of testing teams and quality assurance efforts
• Proven experience of leading the deployment of enterprise and custom software solutions in client environments
• Demonstrated ability to influence and consult while providing thought leadership to sponsors/stakeholders in solving governance, program/project management, business process and/or technical problems
• Proven experience growing and selling while delivering
• 5 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• 5 Years of Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
• 5 Years of application DevSecOps Experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment
• Experience utilizing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes
• 5 Years of Experience implementing test automation, using tools such as Selenium, Appium, Soap UI, RestAssured, Postman
• 3 Years of Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD Pipelines
• 3 Years of Experience with performance and load testing
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills
• Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
• Must possess active ISTQB and Project Management Professional (PMP) certifications
• Must possess an active USDA suitability determination