Integration QA Lead
About The Position
The Integration QA Lead serves as the hands-on lead for test strategy, automation, data quality, and release readiness for Identity, Data & Integration, including VA enterprise interfaces and legacy-to-EISS migration for the VA Memorials Integration Services and Innovation (MISI) program. The role owns broad integration test coverage, validates AI-generated test assets, designs independent migration verification, directs regression testing and migration rehearsals, and reports interface and data defects and release-quality metrics. The position ensures VA-authorized AI use, human review, and CI/CD gates are in place before recommending release readiness. The position is in the proposal stage.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or an IT-related degree and 7–10 years of experience.
- Hands-on QA leadership in enterprise integration testing, API automation, data migration testing, and complex SQL-based data validation.
- Experience writing and evaluating API/contract tests, ETL validation queries, and source-to-target reconciliation checks.
- Working knowledge of CI/CD, GitHub/Jira, defect triage, test traceability, and production cutover readiness.
- Ability to challenge AI-generated tests, identify missing scenarios, and independently confirm expected data and interface results.
- Public Trust.
Nice To Haves
- Postman/Newman or comparable API tools.
- Automated contract testing.
- SQL Server/Oracle.
- ETL validation.
- Mock services and performance testing.
- Familiarity with VA IAM/SSOi, MPI/ICN, VA.gov data exchanges, Salesforce integrations, and federal system interfaces.
- Experience with migration rehearsal evidence, data-quality dashboards, Section 508 where applicable, and federal UAT.
Responsibilities
- Own automated API, web service, interface-contract, end-to-end, and negative-path test coverage across VA IAM/SSOi, MPI/ICN, VA.gov, VLM, and related enterprise integrations.
- Validate AI-generated test cases, scripts, and synthetic data for meaningful assertions, traceability, edge cases, security, and expected integration behavior.
- Design independent migration verification covering source-to-target record counts, field-level mapping, transformations, referential integrity, exception handling, and reconciliation evidence.
- Direct regression tests and migration rehearsals.
- Coordinate with the Dev Lead, Data Architect, functional Architect, external interface owners, and NCA UAT stakeholders.
- Report interface and data defects and release-quality metrics.
- Ensure VA-authorized AI use, human review, and CI/CD gates before recommending readiness.
Benefits
- Paid parental leave.
- Immediate vesting in the 401(k).
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
- Life insurance.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- Earned bonuses and awards.
- Professional training reimbursement.
- Employee Assistance Program.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
