Overview

As aTest EngineeringTeam Lead, you will work with our growingDevSecOpspractice as a team lead delivering quality assurance services to support application,cloudand data systems development. We are looking for candidates with 5-7years experiencewithresponsibility for leadinga team of quality assurance and test automationprofeesionalsto drive projectsin an Agile/DevSecOpsenvironment.

Contributions

Responsibilities include:

• Serves as the technical delivery leader, accountable for completion of team delivery efforts including quality oversight and client acceptance

• Fosters and promotes innovative thinking across the client environment

• Builds andmaintainsclient relationships, developing a strategic vision for clients and internal teams

• Handles challenging client situations and offers technical and business guidance & direction to client executives

• Manages staff and monitors performance and training needs to create skills expansion and career advancement opportunity

• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers

• Meet with product design team todeterminetesting 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

• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results, including three or more of the following:
  • Data validation testing
  • Functional testing
  • Performance and load testing
  • Usability testing
  • Accessibility (508) testing

• Establishingautomated testing tools and infrastructure for test automation

• Providevalidation 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

• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats

• Working 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 tooptimizetesting software systems

• Work with teams to bring continuous improvement toDevSecOpsprocesses and tools.

• Engineer and implement solutions andproviderecommendations for continuous improvement for the servicesprovided

• Present regular status updates andprovidecross training to other DevOps team members.

• Leads and manages team members

• Assistsin sales and technical strategy activities beyond their current program

• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided

Qualifications

Required:

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance

• BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience

• 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 applicationDevSecOpsExperience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment

• Experience utilizing docker containers andutilizingplatforms such as Kubernetes

• 5 Years of Experience implementing test automation, using tools such asSelenium, 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

Preferred:

• MSDegree

• Certifications:

• CAST (CertifiedAssociate in SoftwareTesting)

• International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certification

• Certified Manager of Software Testing (CMST)

• DHS Trusted Tester Certification (TTv5)

• 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 preferred