SQA Manager, Lead

631 Booz Allen Hamilton_United States; Melbourne (FL); On-site; USD 99,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Tuition assistance

Paid leave

Retirement plans

Job summary

Booz Allen is seeking a seasoned SQA Manager to lead quality across the full software development lifecycle for VA healthcare systems. You will guide testing across functional, integration, and end-to-end scopes, coordinate UAT with stakeholders, and drive defect management with objective evidence.

The role requires balancing delivery timelines with security and patient-care workflows, leading distributed teams, and ensuring release readiness in a regulated federal environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with software quality assurance leadership.
• 9+ years of experience with VA Pharmacy, VistA, CPRS, PBM, and FDB environments or related VA clinical and pharmacy applications.
• Experience serving as a QA Lead or QA Manager supporting federal Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare systems.
• Experience leading QA teams and owning test strategy, UAT, defect management, and release-quality decisions.
• Experience creating and executing test cases, scripts, plans, and traceability for functional, integration, regression, system, end-to-end, and user acceptance testing.
• Experience with Agile or Scrum and SDLC, including risk-based testing and collaboration across cross-functional teams.
• Experience validating requirements and acceptance criteria and producing clear, reproducible test evidence and defect documentation.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and nontechnical stakeholders and to make objective, evidence-based quality recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor software quality assurance teams supporting federal VA healthcare systems, including assigning work and setting expectations.
• Define and maintain risk-based test strategies, quality plans, test approaches, entry/exit criteria, coverage objectives, and release-readiness recommendations.
• Lead functional, integration, regression, system, end-to-end, and user acceptance testing across applications and clinical workflows.
• Coordinate UAT planning and execution with product owners, stakeholders, and delivery leadership with clear rationale for findings.
• Establish defect management practices, including triage, severity, root-cause discussions, and closure with objective evidence.
• Validate requirements, acceptance criteria, traceability, test data, and test evidence throughout the SDLC and Agile delivery lifecycle.
• Report test progress, risks, dependencies, coverage, quality trends, open defects, and release readiness to leadership.
• Collaborate with analysts, developers, product owners, clinical stakeholders, and government customers to improve quality early and continuously.
• Coordinate priorities, capacity, dependencies, and deliverables across MOCHA PGx 4.0, Inbound eRX, and shared AMPL PolyPharmacy support.

Skills

QA leadership

Federal QA

QA Lead

UAT planning

Test strategy

Agile SDLC

Requirements validation

Communication

Education

Public Trust HS diploma or GED

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Git

Microsoft365

Job description

SQA Manager, Lead

The Opportunity: The MOCHA PGx 4.0 and Inbound eRX teams support mission-critical capabilities for the Department of Veterans Affairs. As the lead SQA Manager, you will establish and execute quality practices across the full software development lifecycle, lead testing teams, and partner with product, engineering, clinical, and program stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable, accessible, and maintainable healthcare solutions. The role requires the judgment to balance delivery timelines, technical complexity, patient-care workflows, security, and release risk.

What You’ll Work On:

• Lead and mentor software quality assurance teams supporting federal VA healthcare systems, including assigning work, setting expectations, reviewing results, and developing team capability.


• Define and maintain risk-based test strategies, quality plans, test approaches, entry and exit criteria, coverage objectives, and release-readiness recommendations.


• Lead functional, integration, regression, system, end-to-end, and user acceptance testing across applications, interfaces, data, roles, and clinical workflows.


• Coordinate UAT planning and execution with product owners, subject matter experts, business stakeholders, and delivery leadership and ensure findings are documented and resolved or accepted with clear rationale.


• Establish defect management practices, including triage, severity and priority assessment, root‑cause discussion, retesting, trend analysis, and closure with objective evidence.


• Validate requirements, acceptance criteria, traceability, test data, and test evidence throughout the SDLC and Agile delivery lifecycle.


• Report test progress, risks, dependencies, coverage, quality trends, open defects, and release readiness to technical and program leadership.


• Collaborate with analysts, developers, product owners, clinical stakeholders, and government customers to improve quality early and continuously.


• Coordinate priorities, capacity, dependencies, and deliverables across MOCHA PGx 4.0, Inbound eRX, and shared AMPL PolyPharmacy support as assigned.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

• 10+ years of experience with software quality assurance leadership


• 9+ years of experience with VA Pharmacy, VistA, CPRS, PBM, and FDB environments or related VA clinical and pharmacy applications


• Experience serving as a QA Lead or QA Manager supporting federal Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare systems


• Experience leading QA teams and owning test strategy, UAT, defect management, and release-quality decisions


• Experience creating and executing test cases, scripts, plans, and traceability for functional, integration, regression, system, end‑to‑end, and user acceptance testing


• Experience with Agile or Scrum and SDLC, including risk-based testing and collaboration across cross‑functional teams


• Experience validating requirements and acceptance criteria and producing clear, reproducible test evidence and defect documentation


• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and nontechnical stakeholders and to make objective, evidence-based quality recommendations


• Public Trust HS diploma or GED

Nice If You Have:

• Experience with pharmacy, medication‑management, e‑prescribing, clinical, or other healthcare application workflows


• Experience with VistA patch development and release processes, InterSystems IRIS, MUMPS, VA Pharmacy applications, PBM, or FDB


• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Git, Microsoft365, and collaborative Agile delivery tools


• Experience with automated testing tools or automation frameworks and manual testing


• Experience supporting regulated systems, privacy and security requirements, accessibility, and federal compliance expectations


• Ability to pay strict attention to detail and demonstrate strong ownership and sound judgement


• Ability to work independently while leading a distributed team


• Ability to build trust across delivery, government, clinical, and technical stakeholders


• Ability to demonstrate a commitment to secure, accessible, testable, supportable, and patient-centered products


• Possession of excellent written and verbal communication skills

Vetting:

Applicants selected will be subject to a government investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements of the U.S. government client; Public Trust determination is required.

Compensation

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