Senior IAM QA Engineer — Remote & Lead

GovCIO; Honolulu (HI); 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 software quality assurance for the ICAM program supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The role focuses on test strategy, architecture, and high-level validation across SSO, Entra ID, IGA, PAM, and MPI, with a strong emphasis on federated authentication and accessibility. The ideal candidate will mentor junior staff, collaborate in an Agile/SAFe environment, and ensure releases meet quality and performance standards before production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field, and 12+ years of experience in software quality assurance/testing.
• Hands-on experience testing MPI/identity resolution and person-matching capabilities.
• Experience testing Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), including conditional access and identity governance.
• Strong protocol-level experience with SSO, SAML, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and MFA flows.
• Designing and leading test strategy across SDLC for multi-system environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead test strategy, architecture, and planning for ICAM products.
• Design and execute test plans, scripts, and scenarios across functional, regression, integration, security, and deployment testing.
• Validate federated authentication and SSO flows, including MFA and token validation.
• Test Entra ID configurations, conditional access, and identity governance workflows.
• Oversee MPI identity resolution testing, including match/no-match decisioning and data reconciliation.
• Ensure acceptance criteria in each sprint and collaborate with developers/POs in SAFe.
• Lead integration testing for ~70 new applications yearly across CI/CD pipelines.
• Perform reliability, performance, and load testing to meet uptime targets.

Skills

MPI testing

Entra ID testing

SAML/OIDC MFA

SSO testing

Protocol testing

Jira/Agile

Mentoring

Test strategy

Team leadership

Lead/test architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

GovCIO is seeking an IAM Sr. SQA Engineer to lead software quality assurance for the ICAM program supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The role focuses on test strategy, architecture, and high-level validation across SSO, Entra ID, IGA, PAM, and MPI, with a strong emphasis on federated authentication and accessibility. The ideal candidate will mentor junior staff, collaborate in an Agile/SAFe environment, and ensure releases meet quality and performance standards before production.