Full Time
Washington, DC
Hybrid/Remote
10 Year Experience
Professional Services
Reports to CEO
Status: Citizen or Green Card Holder (Position Requires Clearance)
Assurety Consulting has a great opportunity for a QA Manager supporting the MEPT Program at our client site in Washington DC. The QA/Software Testing Manager is responsible for leading, directing, developing, executing, measuring, and improving testing and quality KPIs and workstreams. Assurety is looking for a technically savvy and operationally disciplined QA Manager to help lead efforts in helping our customers manage and enhance mission systems.
The successful candidate is a technical QA project lead with a track record of successfully developing strong relationships and successfully managing complex QA and software testing projects and must be able to demonstrate a history of successful outcomes for manual, automation, and customer acceptance testing projects.
As a leader within this team, we would look for a candidate to bring discipline to the QA planning, execution, and deliverables process and improve the quality of our deliverables. Must be a self-starter, a self-managed person who can coach and mentor QA Test leads and mid-level and junior testers. Experience in working with financial, supply chain, eCommerce, marketing, mail, and parcel systems is a plus.
Assurety Consulting genuinely cares about its employees. We bring together the best people and the best careers. Our family of talented and focused professionals enjoy Assurety Consulting's generous PTO and Holidays, great benefits, and great pay.
All employees of Assurety share one job description which is to keep its customers and help grow the company.
GENERAL FUNCTION:
- Must be able to lead and direct the activities of the QA/SOFTWARE TESTING team. Lead testing on on-premises software systems as well as Google and Azure Clouds.
- You will be responsible for assuring the quality of software before deployment for mission-critical systems that generate billions of dollars in yearly revenues.
- Your efforts will minimize stoppage of revenue as well as irate customer calls to the management of your client and you will be able to directly impact the customer experience positively.
- You will be able to lead and mentor junior resources and help them grow professionally.
- Your efforts will make sure that the products and services envisioned by the VPS and directors are implemented to cut costs, sustain revenues, and improve customer experience.
- Your efforts will build trust between the testing and development teams and your goal will be to gain the trust of all stakeholders.
- Works as a QA risk manager and proactively communicates risks and develops solutions to mitigate the risks.
- Manages tasks, resources, schedules, and plans for multiple releases per year for QA activities.
- Develop requirements/Test Case plans and matrix.
- Works with customers and provides QA/Software Testing, process and task management guidance, and status.
- Supervises the timely preparation of QA/SOFTWARE TESTING plans and scripts and execution.
- Leads QA/SOFTWARE TESTING activities, and mentors other QA/SOFTWARE TESTING resources.
- Conducts data analysis and writes QA/SOFTWARE TESTING plans and scripts focused on data and functional testing.
- Authors as needed, test cases and perform smoke, functional, negative, regression, and cross-browser testing of products and applications.
- Interprets, analyzes, and understands Requirement/Specification documentation provided for new and existing functionality.
- Writes and executes test plans, test scenarios, and test cases.
- Assists Development with the research of reported issues.
- Maintains records of test progress and documenting test results
- Manages Requirement Traceability Matrices
- Must be able to manage the activities of multiple QA/SOFTWARE TESTING teams.
- You should have strong leadership, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with software engineering or requirements management is a plus.
- Must have Expertise with testing tools.
- Must understand data modeling data entities and data communication and processing related QA/SOFTWARE TESTING activities.
- Knowledge of and experience with B2B systems is a plus.
- Good interpersonal skills are also required.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s Degree (BS/BA) in Computer Science or Information Technology related field or comparative experience.
- Experience with B2B data communication, compliance, processing, and reporting experience is a plus.
- Must have 10+ years of progressive Quality Assurance, Leadership, and Management experience.
- 8+ years of experience in web-based applications.
- MUST be able to understand testing driven by data for API-based systems.
- Must have practical experience with all stages of the software development life cycle (SDLC) as well as the software testing life cycle (STLC).
- Must have communication skills to lead activities and deliver quality deliverables.
- Must be a U.S. citizen and/or authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer.
- Must be able to obtain a Public Trust US government clearance.
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