Quality Assurance Manager

General Dynamics Information Technology • Gaithersburg, MD

2d • $110,500 - $149,500 • Hybrid

About The Position

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is seeking candidates for a Quality Assurance (QA) Manager position on a new contract supporting the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and its critical mission needs. As a Quality Assurance Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing application stability, reliability, and testing excellence while managing both QA engineers. This role combines senior-level leadership, technical oversight, team management, and direct engagement with customers to support high-quality delivery across the QA functions. This role requires 3 days in office at GDIT Gaithersburg location and/or FDA White Oak campus.

Requirements

• Bachelors and 10+ years of relevant experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience in lieu of degree)
• 5+ years of experience in the development and execution of test plans and test scripts for Web-based applications
• 3+ years' experience with Atlassian software such as JIRA and Confluence
• People management experience required
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust which requires 3 out of the 5 years of US residency

Nice To Haves

• FDA experience strongly preferred
• Experience with Acceptance Test Driven Development (Gherkin), Behavior Driven Development
• Agile / Scrum (workflow Rally or JIRA)
• Strong verbal and written communication skill

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and mentor QA engineers and automation testers, providing clear direction, coaching, and performance feedback.
• Ensure QA practices and testing outputs adhere to FDA security, governance, and data-protection requirements, including structured review workflows and regulatory processes.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive test plans, RTMs, scenario-based testing scripts, validation packages, and release readiness criteria for multiple FDA workstreams.
• Design and implement test automation strategy and manage the implementation of automation test coverage.
• Validate that releases meet regulatory criteria for accuracy, traceability, controlled workflows, and readiness for UAT and production deployment.
• Partner with FDA leads, program managers, and scientific reviewers to ensure testing practices support FDA mission outcomes.
• Oversee functional, regression, end-to-end (E2E), performance, and UAT testing cycles; ensure published test results meet program quality standards.
• Coordinate parallel testing for DME, O&M, Facilities, Microbiology, and AI-enabled workflows across sequential and parallel development tracks.
• Manage defect triage, root-cause analysis, prioritization, remediation tracking, and regression verification across all FDA applications.
• Provide defect visibility to PMO, technical leads, and government stakeholders; ensure risks and blockers are escalated promptly.
• Deliver clear QA status reporting, quality dashboards, defect metrics, and readiness assessments to FDA stakeholders, PMO leadership, and cross-functional teams.
• Champion continuous improvement of testing standards, processes, and documentation across FDA workstreams.

Benefits

• Variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
• Dental plan options
• Vision plan
• 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
• Full flex work weeks where possible
• Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
• Short and long-term disability benefits
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager