Senior IT Quality Assurance Manager - TS/SCI with Polygraph

General Dynamics Information Technology • Chantilly, VA

12d • $147,292 - $199,278 • Onsite

About The Position

Are you ready to be a part of an elite team at GDIT, working on a large-scale, pioneering National Intelligence program? This is an incredible opportunity to immerse yourself into an environment that fuses innovation, speed, and security to safeguard our Nation. At GDIT, you'll thrive in a dynamic and collaborative setting, where your technical skills will be both challenged and expanded. This program offers the chance to engage with cutting-edge technologies and contemporary development practices in support of a vital mission. You'll play a critical role in addressing some of the most intricate security and operational challenges facing Intelligence and Homeland Security today. Come join us and contribute to a mission that truly matters, while advancing your career alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry.

Requirements

• BS/BA or equivalent experience
• TS/SCI with Polygraph
• 10+ years of progressive software engineering and quality assurance experience, with a proven track record of moving from hands-on technical contributor to senior leadership
• 5+ years of experience leading teams with demonstrated ability to plan, organize, and implement significant strategic initiatives.
• Demonstrable experience architecting and executing a large-scale manual-to-automation transformation. Must be able to speak deeply to the technical framework design, ROI analysis, and change management strategies used.
• Deep, hands-on expertise with modern automation tooling, CI/CD pipeline integration, and testing large-scale, multi-tier, service-oriented architectures.
• US Citizenship Required: Yes

Nice To Haves

• Experience evaluating and implementing GenAI tooling to accelerate test script generation, optimize test data management (including synthetic data for PHI/PII), and improve overall QA efficiency.
• Familiarity with modern automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress) and shift-left API testing strategies.
• Experience with traditional enterprise stacks, including Java, Jira, GitHub, and DB2 (or similar) on large-scale applications.
• Deep knowledge of DORA metrics (Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Change Failure Rate) and establishing engineering benchmarks.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and continuously improve the program’s quality management approach across all task orders (e.g., quality plan, standards, templates).
• Ensure the program’s software‑development lifecycle (SDLC), Agile/SAFe practices, and DevSecOps processes have clearly defined quality criteria at each stage.
• Align quality practices with contract requirements, customer standards, and GDIT policies.
• Serve as the ultimate technical authority for QA tooling and architecture.
• Define and document key processes for requirements, design, coding, testing, release, defect management, and configuration management.
• Perform periodic process compliance checks (e.g., audits, walkthroughs, spot checks) across task orders to verify teams are following agreed practices.
• Collect and analyze findings, drive corrective actions, and track closure of non‑conformances or observations.
• Facilitate continual improvement cycles by capturing lessons learned and updating processes, checklists, and templates.
• Define and maintain a consistent set of quality and mission assurance metrics for the program, such as: Defect density and leakage (e.g., defects escaping to higher environments/production), Test coverage, automation rates, and rework, Release quality (e.g., incidents post‑deployment, rollback rates).
• Consolidate and analyze quality data across task orders; identify trends, hotspots, and systemic issues.
• Provide regular quality dashboards and narratives to PMO, program leadership, and customer stakeholders.
• Partner with program management to identify and track quality‑related risks and issues in the program risk/issue register.
• Lead or support root cause analysis (RCA) for significant defects, outages, or delivery failures and ensure corrective/preventive actions (CAPAs) are defined and implemented.
• Monitor the effectiveness of CAPAs and adjust as needed to prevent recurrence.
• Collaborate with the Lead Agilist, Solution Architect, and tech leads to embed quality practices into: Backlog refinement, Definitions of Ready/Done, Testing strategies (unit, integration, system, performance, security), CI/CD pipelines (e.g., automated quality gates, static code analysis, security scans).
• Promote and support test automation and “shift‑left” quality practices to reduce defects and rework.
• Ensure quality checkpoints are integrated into program ceremonies (e.g., PI planning, system demos, retros).
• Define acceptance criteria and review standards for key program deliverables (documents, designs, plans, test evidence, release packages).
• Perform independent quality reviews of high‑risk or high‑visibility deliverables prior to submission to the customer.
• Participate in release readiness reviews, confirming that quality thresholds and exit criteria are met before deployment.
• Support program management as the primary voice on quality‑related topics in customer reviews, audits, and status meetings.
• Prepare and present quality performance summaries, trends, and improvement plans to customer stakeholders.
• Coordinate responses to customer quality concerns, audits, or findings; track and report closure.
• Ensure teams adhere to program quality standards and reporting expectations.
• Perform or coordinate quality reviews of team deliverables and contributions.
• Support harmonization of quality approaches across task orders so the program operates with a common baseline and shared best practices.
• Provide training or orientation to new team members, Scrum teams, and task leads on program quality expectations, processes, and tools.
• Coach teams on best practices in software quality, test design, defect prevention, and documentation.
• Promote a culture where team members proactively raise quality issues and participate in improvement efforts.

Benefits

• variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
• dental plan options
• a vision plan
• a 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
• a 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 are provided or available.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree