Integrated Test Scheduler – IMS, Tricentis

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Maryland, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Develop, integrate, and sustain DevSecOps and testing schedules within the Program Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) for DCSA initiatives.

• Construct, revise, and assess Integrated Master Schedules that reflect DevSecOps activities, dependencies, and critical paths.

• Monitor progress against schedules, plans, and milestones; identify and mitigate schedule risks and bottlenecks.

• Align contractual delivery dates and milestones with CI/CD pipeline stages for NBIS and NI2 applications.

• Incorporate functional, integration, regression, automated, performance, security, and user acceptance testing activities.

• Oversee and enhance automated workflows using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and other orchestration tools.

• Consider security gate latency and remediation rates within schedule critical paths.

• Supervise system capacity, tool dependencies, and development throughput to foresee and avert cloud-environment bottlenecks.

• Merge Tricentis scheduling with Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab, SonarQube, and additional orchestration tools.

• Act as the scheduling subject matter expert (SME) for Tricentis Tosca and qTest; coordinate test schedules, execution windows, and automation events.

• Establish traceability between scheduled testing activities and qTest releases, test cycles, and execution outcomes.

• Create and uphold test entry/exit criteria, release gates, production readiness milestones, and forward-looking test calendars.

• Perform critical path analysis, schedule risk evaluations, performance assessments, and schedule impact evaluations.

• Provide scheduling insights for program reviews, milestone briefings, and executive reports.

• Formulate mitigation and recovery strategies for schedule risks.

• Collaborate with test leads, automation engineers, qTest administrators, DevSecOps engineers, release managers, and Agile teams.

• Facilitate integrated test scheduling meetings, gather schedule status, resolve dependencies, and escalate issues as necessary.

• Develop standardized scheduling, status collection, schedule updates, and reporting procedures.

• Enhance integration between Agile sprint planning and program-level IMS.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Project Management, or a related field.

• Over 8 years of experience in software testing, test management, program scheduling, or systems integration.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience with Tricentis Tosca and/or qTest in enterprise test management and automation environments.

• Practical experience with Tricentis Tosca, qTest, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab, SonarQube, and other DevSecOps tools.

• Proven experience in developing and maintaining complex IMS in federal or regulated settings.

• Advanced expertise with scheduling software such as Microsoft Project or Primavera P6.

• Background in government, defense, federal, or highly regulated sectors.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication abilities.

• Capability to work independently and coordinate across multiple teams.

• Active Secret clearance is required.

• U.S. citizenship is mandatory.

• Preferred: Tricentis certifications (Tosca, qTest, EEG/DEX, NeoLoad, LiveCompare).

• Preferred: Experience with schedule quality assessments, Earned Value Management (EVM), DCMA-style schedule analysis, and schedule risk analysis.

• Preferred: PMP, PMI-SP, or equivalent certification.

• Preferred: Experience in supporting large-scale federal IT modernization, enterprise systems, or mission-critical applications.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for professional development.

• Flexible remote work arrangement.

• Periodic meetings in Quantico, VA or Annapolis, MD as required.