Remote Cloud QA & Automation Lead

AIS (Applied Information Sciences); Virginia; Remote; USD 116,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Information Sciences is seeking a Lead QA Engineer to drive the technical QA and automation strategy for a large cloud migration. The role emphasizes hands-on framework development, risk-based testing, and mentorship of QA engineers across Azure and AWS environments.

The position is remote, contingent on contract award, with a focus on defining test strategies, quality gates, and reliable automation to support enterprise projects for our clients.

Qualifications

• US Citizen or right to work in the United States.
• Minimum eight years of quality engineering or software testing experience, including automation framework design.
• Experience developing enterprise test strategies, quality gates, and technical acceptance criteria.
• Experience with cloud testing, including validating migrated or cloud-hosted applications.
• Strong experience with enterprise test management, requirements traceability, and automated test reporting.
• Hands-on ability to build an automation framework and guide other QA engineers.
• Ability to work on complex problems and coordinate a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Defines the enterprise test strategy, quality gates, and technical acceptance criteria for migrated applications.
• Designs and establishes the initial automation framework and reusable test utilities used across the migration teams.
• Guides and coaches the Cloud Migration Test Automation Engineers, reviewing their test plans, results, and acceptance evidence.
• Oversees requirements traceability, test cases, and acceptance evidence in the program's test management tools.
• Integrates automated testing and reporting into CI/CD pipelines to support repeatable execution.
• Oversees technical validation of migrated applications across Azure and AWS environments.
• Reviews technical acceptance packages and provides Go/No-Go recommendations.
• Reports quality metrics, risks, and trends to program leadership.

Skills

Automation framework design

Quality engineering

Test planning

Cloud testing

CI/CD integration

Tools

Jama Connect

Job description

Applied Information Sciences is seeking a Lead QA Engineer to drive the technical QA and automation strategy for a large cloud migration. The role emphasizes hands-on framework development, risk-based testing, and mentorship of QA engineers across Azure and AWS environments.

The position is remote, contingent on contract award, with a focus on defining test strategies, quality gates, and reliable automation to support enterprise projects for our clients.