Remote IAM & ICAM QA Lead - SSO, Entra ID, MFA

GovCIO; Montpelier (VT); Remote; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

EAP

Corporate Discounts

Learning & Development platform

Training, Education and Certification

Referral Bonus Program

Internal Mobility Program

Pet Insurance

Flexible Work Environment

Job summary

GovCIO is seeking an IAM Sr. SQA Engineer to lead test strategy for the enterprise ICAM program, spanning SSO, Entra ID, IGA, PAM, and MPI. You will mentor QA staff, validate complex identity scenarios, and ensure accessibility and performance targets are met across diverse ICAM products.

The role is fully remote within the United States, supports agile delivery, and involves coordinating with IAM engineering and release teams to ensure quality prior to production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field with 12+ years in software quality assurance/testing or equivalent.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience testing MPI/identity resolution and person-matching capabilities.
• Experience testing Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) including conditional access and governance workflows.
• Strong protocol-level experience with SSO, SAML, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and MFA flows.
• Experience designing and leading test strategy across SDLC for complex multi-system environments.
• Experience with Jira in an Agile/SAFe environment.
• Experience mentoring QA/test engineers.
• Strong written and verbal communication for defect reporting and test metrics.

Responsibilities

• Defines and leads test strategy, architecture, and planning for ICAM products.
• Designs and executes functional, regression, integration, security, and deployment tests.
• Validates federated authentication and SSO flows (SAML, OAuth, OIDC, MFA).
• Tests Azure Entra ID configurations and identity governance workflows.
• Develops MPI identity resolution and match/no-match logic validation.
• Validates stories and acceptance criteria in Agile/SAFe sprints.
• Leads integration testing for ~70 new app integrations yearly.
• Performs reliability, performance, and load testing for ICAM services.
• Performs accessibility testing (Section 508 / WCAG 2.2).
• Provides incident response support and mentors junior engineers.
• Tracks defects and metrics in Jira; contributes to test-process improvements.
• Leads release testing and regression validation with IAM Release Manager.
• Maintains test documentation and traceability to requirements.

Skills

MPI identity resolution

Azure AD Entra ID

SSO protocol testing

SAML/OIDC/OAuth

SDLC test strategy

Jira in Agile/SAFe

mentoring QA engineers

communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Tools

Jira

CI/CD pipelines

Configuration-as-Code testing

test automation frameworks

Job description

GovCIO is seeking an IAM Sr. SQA Engineer to lead test strategy for the enterprise ICAM program, spanning SSO, Entra ID, IGA, PAM, and MPI. You will mentor QA staff, validate complex identity scenarios, and ensure accessibility and performance targets are met across diverse ICAM products.

The role is fully remote within the United States, supports agile delivery, and involves coordinating with IAM engineering and release teams to ensure quality prior to production.