Senior Test Automation Lead — SAFe/DevSecOps

Peraton; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 161,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Test Automation Lead to drive testing and quality engineering across the HELM Product Line within the VA SCMDSO Integration program. You will lead planning, execution, and documentation of automated testing across Agile/SAFe, DevSecOps, and release cycles.

You will collaborate with VA stakeholders, architects, developers, cybersecurity, integration, and release teams to ensure 95% of planned release test cases pass and maintain RTM traceability and evidence.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 12 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 10 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 7 years with Ph.D.
• Willingness to obtain ISTQB Agile Tester Certification (WS15.1) or equivalent certification in a reasonable amount of time.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain the VA-required Tier 2/Moderate Risk background investigation/Public Trust eligibility.
• Demonstrated professional experience leading software testing, test automation, quality engineering, or verification and validation for complex enterprise IT systems.
• Experience designing and maintaining automated and manual test capabilities, regression suites, test plans, test cases/scripts, test evidence, defect workflows, and requirements traceability.
• Experience working in Agile software/product delivery and DevSecOps environments with testing integrated into sprint, build, release, and CI/CD activities.
• Working knowledge of functional, system, regression, accessibility, security, interoperability, performance/load, reliability, usability, and non-functional testing practices.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with technical, functional, program management, product, cybersecurity, release, and customer stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead product-specific testing activities across user story, sprint, build, release, and production-readiness phases.
• Develop, implement, maintain, and continuously improve automated test strategies, frameworks, scripts, and regression capabilities using VA TRM-approved tools.
• Plan and oversee unit, functional, system, reliability, usability, interoperability, regression, security, performance/load, accessibility and other non-functional testing.
• Maintain Test Plans and Test Strategy content in VA-approved tools; ensure traceability and evidence are current.
• Maintain the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) with bi-directional traceability.
• Lead defect management from logging to remediation and validation evidence.
• Provide test execution status, test summaries, and security remediation evidence in VA-approved repositories.
• Coordinate with product teams, VA stakeholders, cybersecurity, architecture, and release teams to define test conditions and acceptance criteria.

Skills

Leadership

Testing & QA leadership

Agile/DevSecOps experience

Communication skills

Education

BS/BA or higher in CS or related field

Tools

VA TRM tools

CI/CD tooling

Automated testing frameworks

Security testing tools

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Test Automation Lead to drive testing and quality engineering across the HELM Product Line within the VA SCMDSO Integration program. You will lead planning, execution, and documentation of automated testing across Agile/SAFe, DevSecOps, and release cycles.

You will collaborate with VA stakeholders, architects, developers, cybersecurity, integration, and release teams to ensure 95% of planned release test cases pass and maintain RTM traceability and evidence.