Senior QA Engineer

Ad Hoc LLC; Columbia (MD); Remote; USD 105,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Ad Hoc LLC is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to oversee testing strategies and mentor a talented team. This fully remote role allows you to contribute towards meaningful government services while working collaboratively to enhance the effectiveness of digital solutions. Candidates should have strong troubleshooting abilities and at least 7 years of experience, focused on delivering high-quality outcomes.

Benefits

Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible PTO

401K with employer match

Paid parental leave after one year of service

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Quality Assurance.
• Experience with automated and manual testing tools.
• Ability to work remotely in a flexible schedule.

Responsibilities

• Support meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements.
• Lead testing strategy development and execution.
• Mentor junior staff and present test results to stakeholders.

Skills

Troubleshooting complex technical issues

Strong influential skills

Testing strategies

Mentoring junior team members

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

This is a remote position.

Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.

This is a remote position.

Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.

Work on things that matter

Our collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government approaches technology.

Built for a remote life

Our culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers.

Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture

Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works.

The Veterans Affairs business unit helps transform the VA into a modern digital services organization where Veteran outcomes are at the center of every effort. We partner with the VA to design and deliver seamless user experiences for Veterans, their families and caregivers, and VA employees. By applying better practices in service design, product management, and technology, we enable the VA to increase the use, quality, and reliability of services and decrease the time Veterans spend waiting for outcomes.

Primary Responsibilities

In this role, you will serve as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. A Senior Quality Assurance Engineer impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the development of the program’s engineering strategy. You may serve as the discipline's primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in engineering processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer include:

• Strong influential skills to propose and evaluate multiple approaches to technical and process problems
• May lead small, less critical, or temporary team structures and projects
• Presents testing strategy, results, risks, etc. to clients, stakeholders, partners, and other engineers
• Demonstrates expertise, accountability, and ownership for testing strategies, tools, and frameworks for the program
• Able to lead the development of a variety of test suites and partner with the team on optimizing them within their software development lifecycle
• Designs and maintains information dashboards that inform the program on multiple facets and trends of quality (defects, load testing, etc.)
• Monitors coverage of quality test suites (automated and manual) and builds plans to fill gaps, directing junior staff as needed
• Develops program testing strategies for teams to follow that are tailored to the technical stack and skills of the team
• Participates in planning and design sessions, informing team decisions on architecture and implementation that enable testing strategy, including automation.
• Actively participates in design and ensures building systems that are testable in the outset
• Participates in technical interviews with new candidates
• May serve as a mentor to other junior level team members
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of experience
• Experience troubleshooting complex technical product-related issues
• Must be able to work between the hours of 8am EST - 8pm EST, and be available for 24/7 on call response
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior government contracting experience
  
  

To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit: https://adhocteam.us/join

Benefits

• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO
• 401K with employer match
• Paid parental leave after one year of service
• Employee Assistance Program
  
  

Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.

In support of various state and city equal pay transparency laws, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $105,000 - $115,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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