Test Engineering Team Lead

UNAVAILABLE; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

UNAVAILABLE invites a Test Engineering Team Lead to join our DevSecOps practice in a high-demand client environment in McLean, VA. The role emphasizes leadership, QA strategy, and hands-on test automation across cloud and data systems while guiding a team of QA professionals in Agile settings.

The candidate should bring 5–7 years of experience leading QA and test automation, strong communication, and the ability to shape testing parameters with product design teams.

Qualifications

• Requires ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in IT or related field, or 2 years IT experience in non-IT degree holder.
• Proven experience leading deployment of enterprise software in client environments.
• Experience influencing sponsors and stakeholders on governance and program management.
• Experience growing and selling while delivering solutions.
• 5 years with Git SCM providers (GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket).
• 5 years of programming or scripting languages.
• 5 years of DevSecOps in Agile environments.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• 5 years implementing test automation (Selenium, Appium, SoapUI, RestAssured, Postman).
• 3 years integrating test automation into CI/CD pipelines (performance, security, functional).
• 3 years of performance/load testing.
• Preferred: MS Degree and ISTQB/CAST/CMST certifications.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the technical delivery leader, accountable for completion of team delivery efforts including quality oversight and client acceptance
• Fosters and promotes innovative thinking across the client environment
• Builds and maintains client relationships, developing a strategic vision for clients and internal teams
• Handles challenging client situations and offers technical and business guidance & direction to client executives
• Manages staff and monitors performance and training needs to create skills expansion and career advancement opportunity
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
• Meet with product design team to determine testing parameters
• Write test plans, create test cases, test procedures, bug reports, final QA reports for products
• Manage test data architecture definition and requests
• Troubleshoot errors and streamline the test procedures
• Establish automated testing tools and infrastructure for test automation
• Provide validation testing of different system and data sets for cloud migrations
• Develop automated testing scripts considering parallelization and idempotency
• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure development follows established processes
• Document as-is state of the environment, perform gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
• Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize testing software systems
• Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to DevSecOps processes and tools
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided
• Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other DevOps team members
• Leads and manages team members
• Assists in sales and technical strategy activities beyond their current program
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided

Skills

Team leadership

Agile/DevSecOps

Git

CI/CD

Testing strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/related field

MS Degree (preferred)

Tools

GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket

Docker

Kubernetes

Selenium

Appium

SoapUI

RestAssured

Postman

Job description

Overview

As aTest EngineeringTeam Lead, you will work with our growingDevSecOpspractice as a team lead delivering quality assurance services to support application,cloudand data systems development. We are looking for candidates with 5-7years experiencewithresponsibility for leadinga team of quality assurance and test automationprofeesionalsto drive projectsin an Agile/DevSecOpsenvironment.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the technical delivery leader, accountable for completion of team delivery efforts including quality oversight and client acceptance

• Fosters and promotes innovative thinking across the client environment

• Builds andmaintainsclient relationships, developing a strategic vision for clients and internal teams

• Handles challenging client situations and offers technical and business guidance & direction to client executives

• Manages staff and monitors performance and training needs to create skills expansion and career advancement opportunity

• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers

• Meet with product design team todeterminetesting parameters

• Write test plans, create test cases, test procedures, bug reports, final QA reports for products

• Manage test data architecture definition and requests

• Troubleshoot errors and streamline the test procedures

• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results, including three or more of the following:
  • Data validation testing
  • Functional testing
  • Performance and load testing
  • Usability testing
  • Accessibility (508) testing

• Establishingautomated testing tools and infrastructure for test automation

• Providevalidation testing of different system and data sets for cloud migrations

• Develop automated testing scripts considering parallelization and idempotency

• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment,and release processes

• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats

• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended

• Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations

• Leverage virtualization and containerization tooptimizetesting software systems

• Work with teams to bring continuous improvement toDevSecOpsprocesses and tools.

• Engineer and implement solutions andproviderecommendations for continuous improvement for the servicesprovided

• Present regular status updates andprovidecross training to other DevOps team members.

• Leads and manages team members

• Assistsin sales and technical strategy activities beyond their current program

• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance

• BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience

• Proven experience of leading the deployment of enterprise and custom Software solutions in client environments

• Demonstrated ability to influence and consult while providing thought leadership to sponsors/stakeholders in solving governance, program/project management, business process and/or technical problems

• Proven experience growing and selling while delivering

• 5 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket

• 5 Years of Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages

• 5 Years of applicationDevSecOpsExperience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment

• Experience utilizing docker containers andutilizingplatforms such as Kubernetes

• 5 Years of Experience implementing test automation, using tools such asSelenium, Appium, Soap UI,RestAssured, Postman

• 3 Years of Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD Pipelines

• 3 Years of Experience with performance and load testing

Preferred:

• MSDegree

• Certifications:

• CAST (CertifiedAssociate in SoftwareTesting)

• International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certification

• Certified Manager of Software Testing (CMST)

• DHS Trusted Tester Certification (TTv5)

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills

• Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred