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Overview
VariQ is seeking a Quality Assurance Lead to join our growing team to develop, support, and modernize mission-critical applications for our DHS customer. Additional Information:- Available: ASAP
- Location: Client site or at the VariQ offices in Rockville/Remote
- Salary: dependent upon experience
- Bachelor's degree with eight (8) or more years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT environment, certifications must be achieved within six (6) months after contract award
- 508 Certification
- Quality Assurance Institute (QAI) Certified Software Test Engineer (CSTE) certification
- Experience developing and implementing efficient and effective testing strategies, test conditions, and test scripts for projects
- Proven ability to ensure appropriate testing coverage and requirements traceability through the creation, implementation, and enhancement of comprehensive test plans, test cases/user stories, test steps, and test automation
- Proven experience testing in Agile Software Development environment
- Experience defining clear expectations for all testing tasks, including inputs and outputs
- Experience implementing test tools to support automation and performance testing
- Experience developing and executing test plans. test cases. scripts, and creating test data for Agile Software Development team; including functional, integration, regression, data integrity and stress testing as well as assisting with user acceptance
- Experience supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including successful outcomes of achieving completed user stories and associated test criteria
- Experience identifying gaps and deficiencies in business requirements, technical specification, designs and testing documentation for completeness and testability
- Experience tracking defects and reporting key metrics for proactively identifying areas for improvement
- Experience coordinating the setup of test envirornments for all planned test execution activities
- Experience managing the change process such as build promotions to User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Production environments
- Proven ability to decompose requirements into detailed test cases for functional and regression test execution
- Understanding of software testing types and methods to support Agile Software Development
- Technical proficiency with SQL including the ability to create queries to validate data integrity and other data constraints
- Proven ability to facilitate effective interaction and coordination between government Project Leads
- Proven ability to identify resource constraints and other potential schedule issues and risks
- Experience implementing testing and configuration management methodologies to support continuous integration
- Experience managing integrated teams to support sprint planning
- Experience with Cucumber and/or Selenium
- Experience in a CI/CD environment
- Experience managing a team of testers
- Experience developing testing programs
- Experience developing and writing plans for testing, monitoring plan, and identifying issues that may impact the plan
- Passion for identifying and implementing testing improvements
- Ability to execute as a hands-on tester
- Proactive problem solver
- Strong verbal and written skills
- Present and speak to senior business leaders
- Experience managing testing in an Agile environment; SaFe preferred
- Experience using Jira
- This job description is not designed to cover a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities are subject to change at any time. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.
- While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.
- All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the employee will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.
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