Testing Lead / Manager

Spatial Front•Arlington, VA

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

Spatial Front, Inc. is seeking a Testing Lead / Manager to oversee testing activities for enterprise application projects. This leadership and coordination role involves managing testing work, ensuring the quality and completeness of execution, overseeing defects and risks, and communicating status to project managers, technical teams, and client stakeholders. The successful candidate will also provide hands-on support when needed, using technical understanding to review test work, identify gaps, validate results, understand system behavior, and assist with deeper issue investigation. The role collaborates with testers, developers, business analysts, project managers, automation resources, and client stakeholders in a structured, client-facing project environment with deadlines, dependencies, and formal reporting. It is based in Crystal City, Virginia, and requires onsite work at least three days per week, with attendance up to five days as needed. The position is full-time, W2, and requires U.S. citizenship and an active Secret clearance. Salary is $100,000–$160,000.

Requirements

Active Secret clearance.
U.S. citizenship.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
At least 5 years of experience in software testing, quality assurance, or enterprise application testing.
Experience leading testing efforts, managing testers, or coordinating QA workstreams.
Strong understanding of testing frameworks, QA methodologies, and the software testing lifecycle.
Experience with test planning, test case development and review, execution tracking, defect management, and release readiness reporting.
Familiarity with automated testing tools and frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Cucumber, TestNG, JUnit, Postman, SoapUI, Tricentis, Tosca, or similar.
Ability to oversee testers while maintaining sufficient technical depth to validate their work.
Experience reviewing test artifacts, including test cases, results, defects, logs, screenshots, and supporting documentation.
Ability to provide hands-on support for testing, validation, and issue analysis when needed.
High-level technical understanding of enterprise applications, including workflows, data, integrations, interfaces, and defect analysis.
Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience collaborating with project managers, developers, business analysts, testers, and client stakeholders.
Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, risks, and blockers simultaneously.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
Attention to detail and commitment to enforcing quality standards.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Teams.
Ability to work onsite in Crystal City, VA.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a QA leadership role, such as QA Lead, Test Lead, Test Manager, UAT Lead, SIT Lead, or Release Testing Lead.
Experience testing enterprise systems such as business applications, case management, financial, HR, or government systems.
Experience working in Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or hybrid delivery environments.
Ability to review and interpret technical documentation, including user stories, requirements, acceptance criteria, interface specifications, and system design materials.
Experience coordinating manual and automated testing within the same release cycle.
Experience reviewing automated test execution results, including failure reports, logs, screenshots, and supporting test evidence.
Experience leading or coordinating User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with business users or client stakeholders.
Experience developing testing dashboards, metrics, executive summaries, and release readiness reports.
Experience supporting federal government projects.
Relevant certifications such as ISTQB, CSM, SAFe, PMP, or similar.

Responsibilities

Lead and manage testing activities across enterprise application projects.
Develop and maintain test plans, schedules, processes, and execution tracking.
Coordinate testing work across functional and technical testers, automation testers, developers, business analysts, project managers, and client stakeholders.
Assign testing tasks, monitor progress, follow up on open items, and ensure deadlines are met.
Review and verify test cases, scripts, results, supporting evidence, and completion status.
Validate that testing work is accurate, complete, documented, and aligned with project requirements.
Provide hands-on support for testing, issue analysis, documentation review, or validation when needed.
Understand system workflows, data flows, integrations, interfaces, reports, and application behavior at a high level.
Track testing progress, pass/fail results, defects, blockers, risks, and release readiness.
Lead defect triage meetings and coordinate retesting, validation, and defect closure.
Work with developers and analysts to understand defects, clarify expected behavior, and verify fixes.
Review automated test results, identify potential gaps, and coordinate with automation resources.
Identify and communicate testing gaps, risks, and quality concerns to project leadership.
Prepare and present testing status reports, dashboards, metrics, and go/no-go recommendations.
Support functional, regression, integration, user acceptance, system, automated, and end-to-end testing.
Improve testing processes, standards, templates, reporting methods, and quality controls.
Ensure testers follow defined QA processes, testing frameworks, and project documentation standards.
Work onsite or in a hybrid capacity in Crystal City, VA, based on project and client needs.