Senior QA Lead – SSN-Reduction for VA Apps (Remote)

Veterans EZ Info Inc; Miami (FL); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance

401(k) with Employer Match

PTO and Federal Holidays

Fully Remote Role

Training and Professional Development

Job summary

VetsEZ is seeking a Quality Assurance (QA) Lead to drive software quality and testing for a VA SSN reduction initiative across VistA applications. You will establish testing strategy, lead QA execution, coordinate defects, and ensure releases meet security, compliance, and quality requirements.

Key responsibilities include leading QA across VistA workflows, developing test plans, mentoring analysts, overseeing functional, integration, regression, security, and UAT testing, and aligning with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Health Informatics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of software quality assurance experience supporting healthcare IT or complex enterprise systems.
• 2+ years of experience as a QA Lead, Test Lead, QA Manager, or comparable quality leadership role.
• Experience developing and executing comprehensive test strategies across functional, integration, regression, and UAT.
• Experience with defect management, release validation, requirements traceability, QA metrics, and reporting.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum software development environments.
• Strong knowledge of test case and test script development, test automation concepts, and QA best practices.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to lead and collaborate with distributed QA teams and technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead QA and testing activities across VistA applications and workflows impacted by the SSN reduction initiative.
• Develop and maintain project-wide test strategies, plans, standards, and priorities based on requirements, risks, dependencies, and release schedules.
• Lead and mentor QA Analysts through test planning, execution, documentation, defect management, and release validation.
• Design and oversee functional, integration, regression, security, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Develop and manage test cases and scenarios covering SSN removal, enterprise identifiers, workflow and UI changes, reports, audit records, interfaces, and related functionality.
• Ensure comprehensive end-to-end test coverage and coordinate testing across development, QA, and business teams.
• Lead defect triage, prioritization, retesting, and closure while monitoring quality risks and defect trends.
• Support release-readiness reviews and provide quality recommendations to project leadership and Government stakeholders.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, test cases, defects, and validation results.
• Ensure testing addresses applicable privacy, PII/PHI, security, and NIST-related requirements and maintain documentation supporting auditability.
• Coordinate UAT with clinical, administrative, and Government stakeholders.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and provide QA input during requirements and design activities to ensure requirements and acceptance criteria are testable.
• Identify opportunities for test automation and communicate testing status, risks, dependencies, and impediments to project leadership.

Job description

VetsEZ is seeking a Quality Assurance (QA) Lead to drive software quality and testing for a VA SSN reduction initiative across VistA applications. You will establish testing strategy, lead QA execution, coordinate defects, and ensure releases meet security, compliance, and quality requirements.

Key responsibilities include leading QA across VistA workflows, developing test plans, mentoring analysts, overseeing functional, integration, regression, security, and UAT testing, and aligning with