Federal Testing Lead: Strategy & Automation

Unison Inc.

Tysons, Northern (VA, KY)

Hybrid

USD 110,000 - 160,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Unison is seeking a Testing Lead to support PRISM and modernization efforts for a federal agency. The role drives testing across upgrades, patches, new releases, fixes, and enhancements while supervising QA resources and coordinating with technical and customer teams.

The hire will establish testing approaches, lead planning and execution, and provide guidance on test plans, cases, scripts, and criteria. In-person interview and potential security requirements apply.

Qualifications

Experience leading testing for upgrades, patches, fixes, releases.
Ability to develop and execute comprehensive testing strategies.
Familiarity with federal agency software environments.

Responsibilities

Own the overall testing and release-validation strategy for upgrades, patches, fixes, new releases, and system enhancements.
Develop, review, and approve test plans, test cases, scripts, expected results, and entry and exit criteria.
Lead and execute System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), upgrade testing, regression testing, and other testing activities as required.
Develop, write, maintain, and execute test plans and test cases based on business requirements, technical designs, system specifications, and user workflows.
Validate test results and provide clear recommendations regarding system and release readiness.
Manage the submission, prioritization, tracking, retesting, and resolution of defects through closure.
Coordinate with developers, requirements analysts, business analysts, designers, and customer stakeholders to verify issues and confirm resolutions.
Oversee and coordinate the responsibilities and activities of the QA Test Support resource.
Review requirements, design documentation, user documentation, release notes, and project specifications for completeness, accuracy, and testability.
Identify testing risks, dependencies, coverage gaps, and readiness concerns, and communicate them clearly to project leadership.
Provide business-process optimization recommendations based on testing results, observed system behavior, and stakeholder feedback.
Develop clear testing status reports, defect summaries, readiness assessments, and recommendations for project and customer leadership.
Support testing schedules, resource planning, and coordination across multiple workstreams.
Help establish and maintain an automated regression testing suite using Selenium WebDriver.
Identify high-value regression scenarios appropriate for automation and coordinate their conversion into reusable automated test scripts.
Integrate automated regression testing into upgrade, patch, release, and enhancement validation activities.
Review automated test results, investigate failures, and determine whether issues are caused by defects, test data, environment conditions, or script maintenance needs.
Build strong working relationships with federal customer stakeholders and serve as a trusted advisor on testing quality, risk, and release readiness.