Test Engineering Team Lead

Overview

As a Test Engineering Team Lead, you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice as a team lead delivering quality assurance services to support application, cloud and data systems development. We are looking for candidates with 5-7 years experience with responsibility for leading a team of quality assurance and test automation profeesionals to drive projects in an Agile/DevSecOps environment.

Contributions

Responsibilities include: 

• 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 

• 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 

• Establishing 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 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 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 

Qualifications

Required: 

• 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 application DevSecOps Experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment 

• Experience utilizing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes 

• 5 Years of Experience implementing test automation, using tools such as Selenium, 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: