Independent Test Lead

American Operations Corporation; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

American Operations Corporation is seeking an Independent Test Lead in Town of Texas, Wisconsin. This role leads testing, integration validation, and ensures compliance with separation-of-duties requirements within the BMx FoS.

The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of software testing experience, hold ISTQB certification, and possess a DoD Secret Clearance. This position is crucial for validating modernization activities and ensuring operational workflow stability prior to deployment authorization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years software testing experience.
• ISTQB certification is required.
• Must possess DoD Secret Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Leads independent testing and integration validation activities.
• Coordinates with various stakeholders for validation activities.
• Supports release stabilization monitoring and operational readiness reviews.

Skills

Integration testing

Regression testing

Automated testing

Selenium/UFT

Release validation

Test strategy development

Job description

Leads independent testing, integration validation, regression testing, operational readiness assessment, release certification, and deployment validation activities across the BMx FoS. The Independent Test Lead governs testing activities independent of the development teams producing the associated code changes, ensuring compliance with PWS separation-of-duties requirements.

This role coordinates directly with the DevSecOps Platform Lead, Cybersecurity Lead, System Architect, Product Owners, Enterprise Integration personnel, and Functional SMEs to validate modernization activities, release candidates, interface synchronization behavior, rollback readiness, and operational workflow stability prior to deployment authorization. The Independent Test Lead also supports release stabilization monitoring, production validation activities, and operational readiness reviews.

Within BMx, this role is particularly important because modernization and sustainment activities may directly affect maintenance scheduling, PMEL operations, readiness reporting, operational dashboards, and mission‑critical workflows.

Technical Skills

• Integration testing
• Regression testing
• Automated testing
• Selenium/UFT
• Release validation
• Test strategy development

Certifications

• ISTQB
• Agile Testing certifications

Experience

• 8+ years software testing experience.
• Experience supporting enterprise release validation

Must possess DoD Secret Clearance.