Remote IAM SQA Lead: SSO, Entra ID & IAM Governance

GovCIO; Juneau (AK); Remote; USD 130,000 - 150,000; 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 seeking an IAM Sr. SQA Engineer to lead test strategy for the enterprise ICAM program supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs. The role focuses on protocol-level testing of SSO, Entra ID, MPI, and IAM governance in a SAFe/Agile environment.

The position is fully remote within the United States, offers a comprehensive benefits package, and requires strong leadership in test design, automation readiness, and 508 accessibility validation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 12+ years in software quality assurance/testing with senior/lead responsibilities.
• Hands-on MPI/identity resolution and person-matching validation experience.
• Experience testing Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) including conditional access and identity governance.
• Strong protocol-level SSO/federated authentication testing (SAML/OAuth/OIDC/MFA).
• Experience guiding test strategy and architecture across SDLC for complex multi-system environments.
• Proficiency with Jira in an Agile/SAFe setup.
• Mentoring or leading QA/test engineers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for defect reports and metrics.

Responsibilities

• Defines and leads test strategy, architecture, and planning for ICAM products.
• Designs and executes functional, regression, integration, security, and deployment tests for multi-system ICAM capabilities.
• Validates federated authentication flows including SSO and MFA.
• Tests Entra ID configurations, conditional access policies, and identity governance workflows.
• Develops MPI identity resolution and match/no-match logic validation.
• Verifies stories and acceptance criteria within Agile/SAFe sprints.
• Leads integration testing for 70 annual application onboarding efforts within CI/CD.
• Performs reliability, performance, and load testing to meet uptime targets.
• Conducts Section 508 and WCAG 2.2 accessibility testing.
• Mentors junior engineers and reports defects and metrics using Jira.
• Coordinates release testing with IAM Release Manager.
• Contributes to monthly program quality reporting and maintains test artifacts.

Skills

MPI identity resolution

SAML/OIDC/OAuth testing

Azure AD / Entra ID

SQA leadership

Test strategy design

Jira / Agile

Mentoring

Performance/load testing

Accessibility testing

CI/CD familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field

Tools

Jira

CI/CD tooling

Automation frameworks

Configuration-as-code testing

Job description

GovCIO is seeking an IAM Sr. SQA Engineer to lead test strategy for the enterprise ICAM program supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs. The role focuses on protocol-level testing of SSO, Entra ID, MPI, and IAM governance in a SAFe/Agile environment.

The position is fully remote within the United States, offers a comprehensive benefits package, and requires strong leadership in test design, automation readiness, and 508 accessibility validation.