Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

We are seeking to hire a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer  to our team!

Client:
CTEC develops and delivers innovative customer-centric technologies and solutions that support the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) Health and Insurance business unit and Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO).

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Test Strategy & Planning: Lead the design and execution of comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and test frameworks to ensure software quality across enterprise systems and data-driven applications.
• Requirements & User Story Validation: Partner with business analysts, product owners, and developers to ensure requirements are testable, define acceptance criteria, and maintain end-to-end traceability using Azure DevOps.
• Test Execution Oversight: Lead manual and automated testing activities, ensuring adequate test coverage across functional, integration, system, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Defect Management & Governance: Oversee defect lifecycle management using Azure DevOps, ensuring accurate documentation, prioritization, root-cause analysis, and resolution verification.
• Test Automation Leadership: Design, implement, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks and regression suites to improve testing efficiency and support continuous integration pipelines.
• Accessibility & 508 Compliance Leadership: Lead Section 508 and accessibility compliance testing using tools such as ANDI, Color Contrast Checker, CommonLook, and similar evaluation tools to ensure applications meet federal accessibility requirements.
• Performance & Non-Functional Testing: Plan and oversee performance, load, and integration testing to validate system scalability, stability, and reliability.
• Release Readiness & Quality Reporting: Provide quality status reporting, risk assessments, and release readiness recommendations to project leadership and stakeholders.
• Agile Participation & Quality Advocacy: Serve as a quality advocate within Agile/Scrum teams, participating in sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Mentorship & Team Leadership: Mentor mid-level and junior QA staff, establish QA best practices, and support continuous improvement of testing processes and standards.
• Continuous Process Improvement: Identify and implement improvements to QA methodologies, automation practices, and toolchains.
• Works under minimal supervision with minor guidance from senior personnel.

Skills & Work Experience:

• Professional Experience: At least seven (7+)years of experience in software quality assurance, testing, or test engineering roles, including leadership responsibilities.
• Proven experience developing enterprise-level test strategies, test plans, and automated testing frameworks.
• Strong experience with test automation tools and frameworks such as Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, or similar.
• Extensive experience using Azure DevOps for test case management, defect tracking, backlog alignment, sprint workflows, and traceability.
• Strong understanding of SDLC methodologies including Agile and Waterfall.
• Hands-on experience leading Section 508 / accessibility compliance testing using tools such as ANDI, Color Contrast Checker, CommonLook, or similar.
• Experience leading performance and integration testing activities.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and root-cause analysis skills.
• Experience working closely with developers, architects, business analysts, and project managers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level reporting.

Preferred:

• Experience supporting U.S. federal government IT systems or modernization programs.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience testing cloud-hosted and data-driven applications.
• Experience establishing QA standards, governance models, and testing centers of excellence.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline. Equivalent professional experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.

Clearance:
Must be a U.S. citizen and be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance.