Test Engineering Team Lead

Steampunk • McLean, VA

1d • $110,000 - $160,000

About The Position

As a Test Engineering Team Lead, you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice as a team lead delivering quality assurance services to support application, cloud and data systems development. We are looking for candidates with 5-7 years experience with responsibility for leading a team of quality assurance and test automation professionals to drive projects in an Agile/DevSecOps environment.

Requirements

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
• BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience
• Proven experience of leading the deployment of enterprise and custom Software solutions in client environments
• Demonstrated ability to influence and consult while providing thought leadership to sponsors/stakeholders in solving governance, program/project management, business process and/or technical problems
• Proven experience growing and selling while delivering
• 5 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• 5 Years of Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
• 5 Years of application DevSecOps Experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment
• Experience utilizing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes
• 5 Years of Experience implementing test automation, using tools such as Selenium, Appium, Soap UI, RestAssured, Postman
• 3 Years of Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD Pipelines
• 3 Years of Experience with performance and load testing

Nice To Haves

• MS Degree
• CAST (Certified Associate in Software Testing)
• International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certification
• Certified Manager of Software Testing (CMST)
• DHS Trusted Tester Certification (TTv5)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills
• Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred

Responsibilities

• Serves as the technical delivery leader, accountable for completion of team delivery efforts including quality oversight and client acceptance
• Fosters and promotes innovative thinking across the client environment
• Builds and maintains client relationships, developing a strategic vision for clients and internal teams
• Handles challenging client situations and offers technical and business guidance & direction to client executives
• Manages staff and monitors performance and training needs to create skills expansion and career advancement opportunity
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
• Meet with product design team to determine testing parameters
• Write test plans, create test cases, test procedures, bug reports, final QA reports for products
• Manage test data architecture definition and requests
• Troubleshoot errors and streamline the test procedures
• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results, including three or more of the following: Data validation testing, Functional testing, Performance and load testing, Usability testing, Accessibility (508) testing
• Establishing automated testing tools and infrastructure for test automation
• Provide validation testing of different system and data sets for cloud migrations
• Develop automated testing scripts considering parallelization and idempotency
• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
• Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize testing software systems
• Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to DevSecOps processes and tools.
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided
• Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other DevOps team members.
• Leads and manages team members
• Assists in sales and technical strategy activities beyond their current program
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided

Benefits

• employee owned company
• investing in our employees
• rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth

What This Job Offers

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