Hybrid Lead Platform Test Engineer — Automation Leader

Sprezzatura Management Consulting

Arlington (VA)

Hybrid

USD 105,000 - 125,000

Full time

45 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision

Health Savings Account with company

Company paid Life, AD&D, and Short/Key

Long-term Disability

Voluntary Accident, Hospital Indemnity

Voluntary Medical & Dependent Care FSA

Paid Time Off & Holidays

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Sprezzatura is seeking an experienced Lead Platform Test Engineer to lead QA and testing across workstreams in support of the VA Budget Tracking Tool modernization. This role combines hands-on test design and execution with mentoring of the QA team.

You will drive an automation-first, risk-based testing model, build reusable regression suites, and integrate automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline, coordinating with BAs, OneStream resources, engineers and VA stakeholders to ensure accurate,

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field (or equivalent experience).
7+ years of software/application testing or QA for complex enterprise implementations.
Experience as Test Lead or working lead, mentoring testers.
Hands-on testing with configurable workflow platforms, ERP/EPM, or related enterprise apps.
Strong experience with functional, workflow, integration, data, regression, and end-to-end testing.
Experience testing business rules, workflows, calculations, reports, roles/permissions, APIs, integrations, and data.
Experience with test automation and reusable regression testing; dev/implement automated scripts or frameworks.
Experience supporting automated testing in Agile/DevSecOps and CI/CD environments.
Experience with defect management, requirements traceability, test evidence, and release-readiness.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and team leadership skills.
Ability to meet VA background investigation/security requirements.
VA or federal government testing experience.
Experience testing OneStream or comparable ERP/EPM/workflow platforms.
Experience testing financial management, PPBE, budgeting, acquisition, or related processes.
Experience with API/integration-testing tools and automated testing frameworks.
Experience with Jira, test-management tools, and Confluence.
ISTQB or comparable QA certification.

Responsibilities

Lead and coordinate QA across Functional Implementation and Data & Integrations workstreams.
Establish and maintain the testing approach, plans, quality measures, and release-readiness criteria.
Provide day-to-day leadership and hands-on test design/execution.
Develop and execute test scenarios, cases, scripts, and data for multiple testing types.
Drive automation-first testing, target 80% regression automation.
Create reusable automated regression suites for business rules, calculations, workflows, APIs, and data.
Support CI/CD integration for continuous validation.
Validate configurable workflows, approvals, calculations, reports, and interfaces.
Manage defect triage, tracking, and metrics to resolution.
Partner with Lead BA for clear, testable requirements and acceptance criteria.
Support release readiness, UAT, demos, and production validation.
Identify opportunities to improve test coverage, automation, efficiency, and quality.