Enterprise QA/CM Lead

Enterprise QA/CM Lead

Job Category: Engineering and Technical Support

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Secret

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Continental US

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What you’ll get to do:

• Leveraging their technical expertise to develop and maintain software configuration management tools to support configuration identification, control, reporting, and delivery of both internally developed software and externally purchased commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software products.
• Work with multi-disciplined teams and organizations to implement configuration management and release (hardware, production, logistics) tasks to ensure new software product operating parameters are documented, comply with standard hardware configurations, and are logistically sustainable.
• Review released engineering change requests and data to ensure adherence to configuration management procedures and policies.
• Work closely with organizational stakeholders to ensure the proper configuration standards for hardware, software, and documentation assets. 
• Implement configuration management processes and procedures according to the Configuration Management SOP
• Prepares and delivers monthly Change Control Board agenda for review, leads monthly meeting, and provides meeting minutes. 
• Implement the configuration management processes and procedures according to the Configuration Management SOP.
• Ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Implementing hardware and software version control processes, policies, and procedures 
• Management of the configuration management tools to store, track, and manage configuration items 
• Understand and manage basic concepts, and assist in documenting hardware and software configuration management processes and procedures
• Understand and manage basic concepts, assist in maintaining and developing the environment for hardware and software product build, staging, testing and integration 
• Defining and implementing hardware and software configuration management processes and procedures, such as creating product build scripts and procedures, and integrating those scripts with the hardware and software build process 
• Implement hardware and software version control processes, policies, and procedures Improve and optimize the CM process and tools
• Serve as the subject matter expert providing testing expertise for complex to highly complex software/hardware applications
• Direct and participate in all phases of risk management assessments and software/hardware development, emphasizing user requirements analysis, test design, and test tools selection
• Ensure test design and documentation support all applicable client, agency, or industry standards, timelines, and budgets
• Verify that testing conclusions and recommendations are fully supported by test results
• Keep project managers fully informed of testing status and application deviations from documented user requirements
• Develop and implement QA strategies that address the unique challenges of both legacy systems and new technology integrations
• Leads and mentors a team, ensuring effective collaboration, professional development, and alignment with configuration management best practices.

You have:

• Current DoD Secret clearance or ability to obtain one.
• 10 years as a quality assurance and configuration manager managing large IT support teams with geographically dispersed organization
• 8 years implementing & managing process improvements and automations within an IT environment
• 5 years of experience supporting high-level & senior Government customers

Desired Skills:

• Familiar with Configuration Management standards including DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF), MIL-HDBK-61 and ISO10007.
• Knowledge of Risk Management Framework (RMF) process and NIST SP 800-53.
• A thorough knowledge of software and hardware configuration management principles and procedures is essential, as is an understanding of the systems development life cycle.
• Ability to read technical documentation and identify alignment and/or conflict with process requirements and policies. Be able to translate these findings into customer communications.
• Demonstrated understanding of Configuration Management (CM) processes and knowledge in cloud and software defined networking principles and technologies is preferred.
• Experience with DoD Defense Planning Guidance (DPG) Program Objective Memorandum (POM) process.

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