Role: Quality Assurance Test Lead
Location: Onsite- Fairfax, VA 3 Days and in Washington, DC 2 Days per Week.
Duration: Long Term Contract
Position Require a Secret Clearance
Job Description:
The Quality Assurance Test Lead is responsible for overseeing and driving all test activities across the software development lifecycle for mission critical DoD systems. The role requires strong leadership abilities, handson QA expertise, and experience managing test efforts for complex systems. Requires an understanding of how testing is seamlessly integrated into Agile sprints and supports continuous delivery pipelines while driving consistent improvements in product quality and team performance. Requires development experience to support test script creation, database queries, and performance load testing.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Create detailed test plans, test scripts, and acceptance criteria aligned with sprint goals and user stories.
- Oversee and execute functional, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
- Coordinate UAT planning, test data, stakeholder engagement, and acceptance sign-off.
- Ensure test coverage that supports high-quality, releasable increments at the end of each sprint.
- Lead the strategy, design, and maintenance of automated test suites for UI, API, regression, and smoke testing.
- Develop, execute, and optimize automated tests using industry-standard tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, WebDriverIO.
- Develop test scripts using Java, Python, Bash, PowerShell and other languages.
- Write and execute complex SQL queries to validate data accuracy, perform backend testing, support ETL verification, and troubleshoot database-related defects.
- Provide clear QA insights to Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and leadership teams.
- Maintain high-quality documentation for test strategies, scripts, automation frameworks, and test results.
- Support operations and sustainment activities.
- All other duties as assigned by management.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Bachelor s degree in computer science or a technical field
- 8+ years in software engineering, black and white box, integration, user acceptance testing and proficiency in automated testing tools.
- 4+ years in agile software development methodologies
- Strong scripting capabilities (Python, PowerShell, Bash) for automation and migration tasks.
- Working knowledge of 508 accessibility standards
- Testing experience in both websites and mobile applications
- Program management and MS Office experience
- Excellent communication and management skills.
Certifications Preferred:
- Certified Tester Foundation v4
- Certified ScrumMaster
Security Clearance Requirements:
- Must have an active DoD Secret clearance.
Work Location:
- 3 days in Fairfax, VA, 2 days in Washington, D.C.
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