Remote IAM SQA Engineer for ICAM & SSO

GovCIO; Pierre (SD); Remote; USD 95,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program (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 hiring an IAM SQA Engineer to provide software quality assurance and test support for the ICAM program serving the Department of Veterans Affairs. This role develops and executes test plans, scripts, and acceptance criteria across SSO, IGA, PAM, and MPI.

The candidate will collaborate with IAM engineering, architecture, and release teams in a fully remote US-based role, performing CI/CD testing, defect triage, and reporting while ensuring performance, reliability, and accessibility

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field, and 8+ years of experience in software quality assurance/testing (or commensurate combination of education and experience).
• Experience developing and executing test plans, test scripts, and test cases across the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Experience using Jira or comparable tools in an Agile/SAFe delivery environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including defect reporting and test-metric documentation.

Responsibilities

• Develops and executes test plans, test scripts, and test scenarios — including functional, regression, integration, and deployment testing — for ICAM products (SSO, IGA, PAM, MPI, VHIC, Active Directory).
• Validates user stories and acceptance criteria each sprint in support of the program's story-completion targets, working directly with developers and product owners in an Agile/SAFe environment.
• Performs integration testing for new application onboarding, verifying functionality within CI/CD pipelines and configuration-as-code deployments.
• Conducts system reliability and performance testing to support SSO/identity datastore and other ICAM product availability targets.
• Performs Section 508 accessibility testing and human-centered design validation across ICAM applications and interfaces.
• Supports Tier 3 incident response by reproducing, triaging, and validating fixes for high- and critical-severity defects to help meet ticket SLA targets.
• Logs, tracks, and reports defects and test metrics — including failure, throughput, and yield analysis — using enterprise tools such as Jira; monitors for continual test-process improvement.
• Participates in release testing and regression validation in coordination with the IAM Release Manager prior to production deployment.
• Contributes testing status, defect trends, and quality metrics to monthly program reporting.
• Maintains test documentation, including test plans, scripts, and traceability to requirements and acceptance criteria.

Skills

QA testing

Jira

SDLC testing

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Automation frameworks

Job description

GovCIO is hiring an IAM SQA Engineer to provide software quality assurance and test support for the ICAM program serving the Department of Veterans Affairs. This role develops and executes test plans, scripts, and acceptance criteria across SSO, IGA, PAM, and MPI.

The candidate will collaborate with IAM engineering, architecture, and release teams in a fully remote US-based role, performing CI/CD testing, defect triage, and reporting while ensuring performance, reliability, and accessibility