Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

5 months ago


Washington, United States VMD Corp Full time
Description

As a Vision, Mission, and Driven company, VMD has been delivering information technology solutions to the Federal government in Agile Engineering, Cybersecurity, and Critical Infrastructure Protection since 2002. Our mission has now expanded, and we have merged with Xcelerate Solutions to revolutionize end-to-end enterprise security. Together we are committed to protecting our nation's citizens, critical infrastructure, and resources.

Why Join VMD Corp?

At VMD, now a part of Xcelerate Solutions, you have the opportunity to thrive in your career and become a Game Changer. The quality and talent of our people is what drives our success. We embrace an employee-first culture and make it a priority to provide professional development opportunities that foster career growth.

We help protect American Citizens and the nation's most critical infrastructure by working alongside our customers and delivering game changing solutions to strengthen their missions. We believe our passion and commitment to achieve our customers' goals and solve their most critical challenges defines who we are. We don't just dream big, we act on it - through teamwork, dedication, and resilience.

Learn more about VMD culture here: VMD Culture

About the Mission You Will Join:VMD is rapidly growing IT services company focused on tackling some of the big challenges in Immigration, Travel, and Critical Infrastructure Protection. We are looking for dynamic individuals to act as "Game Changers" in driving operational efficiency to our customers. In this role, you will be supporting the Department of Homeland Security mission, specifically working to enhance the immigration experience through IT modernization and innovative digital strategies.

Your Impact to the Mission:

As the QA Engineer Lead you will be responsible for the performance of the software test plan development and development of automated test scripts. You will support the Technical Lead in researching and implement best-in-class testing tools. You will implement testing strategies, test conditions, and scripts to improve code coverage. Additionally, you will manage staff across integrated teams.

Experience Needed to Be Successful:
  • Experience developing and executing test plans, automated test cases, scripts, and creating test data from scratch for Agile Software Development team; including functional, integration, regression, data integrity and stress testing as well as assisting with user acceptance.
  • Experience managing the change processes such as build promotions to User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Production environments.
  • Experience implementing automated test tools to include Selenium, Cucumber, and SonarQube.
  • Scripting knowledge with languages such as Python, Java, and Javascript.
  • Experience with Agile delivery to include requirements tools and tracking (e.g. JIRA).
  • Knowledge in delivering cloud based solutions and services in a mission critical environment.
  • Experience participating in daily scrum stand-up meetings, facilitating Sprint planning meetings and coordinating Sprint reviews, retrospectives, and burn-down charts.
  • Experience identifying and removing impediments from sprints and projects to ensure on time completion.
  • Experience with all aspects of configuration management planning including configuration identification, change control, configuration status accounting, configuration audits, configuration documentation.
  • Experience tracking defects and reporting key metrics for proactively identifying areas for improvement.
Desired qualifications and Experience:
  • 8 years in Quality Assurance.
  • Experience delivering mission critical systems in the immigration and travel domains.
  • Proven track record in implementing Agile methodologies to improve software delivery.
  • Technical proficiency with SQL including the ability to create queries to validate data integrity and other data constraints.
Basic Qualifiers:
  • Education Requirement: Bachelor's degree
  • Can Additional Years of Experience Substitute for Degree? Yes
  • Required Certification(s): DHS 508 Trusted Tester Certification and Quality Assurance Institute (QAI) Certified Software Test Engineer (CSTE) certification and Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
  • Desired Certification(s): Additional Agile Certifications are a Plus (i.e Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Agilist, SAFe Practice Consultant, SAFe Practitioner); Certified Software Test Automation Specialist (IIST), ISTQB Advanced Level Test Automation engineer (ISTQB), Certified Selenium Engineer (Selenium United), Test Automation Engineering Certification (AST), Certified Professional in Test Automation (CPTA) ISCB, Certified Software Quality Engineer
  • Minimum Years of Overall Experience: 8
  • Minimum Years of Specific Experience in Field: 8
  • Minimum Clearance to Start: Public Trust
  • Work Status Allowable: US Citizen
The Type of Person That Will Excel:
  • Strong verbal and written communicator, able to navigate a highly complex environment with multiple product owners.
  • Proven ability to identify resource constraints and other potential schedule issues and risks.
Travel and Telecommuting:
  • Travel: Little (less than 10%)
  • Telecommute Options: Hybrid. Occasional trips to client site for meetings. Candidate needs to be located in the DC metro area.

VMD provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable Federal, state and local laws. VMD maintains a drug-free workplace.

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