Test & Evaluation Lead – Senior

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois.

📋 Description

• Create, manage, and oversee the software testing and evaluation strategy for the program.

• Ensure that testing efforts, documentation, timelines, and evidence align with the approved Test and Evaluation Master Plan and Government regulations.

• Establish test objectives, scope, levels, methodologies, environments, entry and exit criteria, roles, responsibilities, and reporting requirements.

• Develop risk-based testing methodologies for mission workflows, business rules, data exchanges, security fixes, and operational capabilities.

• Guarantee comprehensive test coverage across requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, interfaces, risks, and release content.

• Maintain and establish traceability between requirements, test cases, test data, test outcomes, defects, corrections, and release decisions.

• Supervise the Requirements Traceability Matrix and test coverage reporting.

• Assess requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, interface specifications, and technical designs for clarity, completeness, consistency, and testability.

• Coordinate the preparation of test plans, scenarios, cases, scripts, data, anticipated results, and execution schedules.

• Direct functional, integration, system, end-to-end, regression, exploratory, security, accessibility, performance, and user acceptance testing.

• Oversee testing across development, integration, testing, staging, and Government-approved environments.

• Ensure readiness of test environments, configurations, interfaces, accounts, data, tools, and dependencies for execution.

• Set standards for test execution records and objective verification evidence.

• Review test results, execution evidence, coverage data, unresolved risks, and impacts on releases.

• Lead defect triage meetings and coordinate severity, priority, ownership, resolution, retesting, and closure decisions.

• Manage verification of defect corrections and targeted regression testing.

• Identify systemic quality trends, recurring defects, coverage deficiencies, and process vulnerabilities; suggest corrective measures.

• Coordinate release testing and define release-specific scope, readiness criteria, schedules, and reporting.

• Provide evidence-based recommendations regarding release readiness to program and Government leadership.

• Assist with Government user acceptance testing.

• Manage testing for urgent security patches, production defects, modernization changes, interfaces, and migration tasks.

• Collaborate with cybersecurity personnel to confirm approved security remediation and evaluate regression impacts.

• Work alongside CI/CD engineers to incorporate automated tests and quality gates into delivery pipelines.

• Establish and report on test metrics, including execution progress, requirements coverage, defect trends, correction rates, automation, and release quality.

• Prepare test status updates, quality assessments, decision briefings, release recommendations, and Government-required testing documentation.

• Support sprint planning, demonstrations, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, and program governance activities.

• Mentor QA and testing personnel while promoting standardized testing methods, evidence standards, and defect management practices.

• Drive continuous improvement in testing, automation, traceability, evidence management, defect prevention, and release validation.

• Collaborate with Government stakeholders, mission liaisons, requirements analysts, architects, software developers, QA engineers, cybersecurity personnel, DevSecOps engineers, trainers, and operations teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or higher.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent allowed by the applicable labor category.

• A minimum of eight years of relevant professional experience.

• Proven experience leading software test strategy and planning activities.

• Experience in establishing and maintaining requirements traceability and test coverage reporting.

• Familiarity with defining, collecting, reviewing, and maintaining objective verification evidence.

• Proven ability to plan, coordinate, and assess release testing.

• Experience in developing or aligning testing activities with a Test and Evaluation Master Plan or similar governing testing plan.

• Experience leading defect triage, verification of corrections, and assessment of release risks.

• Capability to evaluate requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, interfaces, and designs for completeness and testability.

• Ability to coordinate functional, integration, system, regression, and user acceptance testing across diverse teams and environments.

• Proficient in communicating test status, quality risks, coverage gaps, unresolved defects, and release recommendations to both technical and executive stakeholders.

• CompTIA Security+ CE or another Government-approved certification fulfilling the necessary IAT Level II qualification and current DoD 8140 work-role requirements.

• Strong leadership, analytical, risk-assessment, facilitation, technical documentation, and communication skills.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with Government representatives, mission stakeholders, analysts, developers, architects, cybersecurity personnel, DevSecOps engineers, testers, and operations teams.

• Preferred: ISTQB Advanced Level Test Management certification.

• Preferred: Additional advanced software-testing, quality-management, or test-automation certifications.

• Preferred: Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense software development, modernization, or testing and evaluation programs.

• Preferred: Experience leading testing for mission-critical, regulated, security-sensitive, or high-availability systems.

• Preferred: Experience testing military accession processing, personnel processing, or other complex rules-driven workflows.

• Preferred: Experience developing or maintaining a TEMP, Requirements Traceability Matrix, test plan, test report, or comparable Government testing artifact.

• Preferred: Experience leading Government user acceptance testing, operational validation, or formal release acceptance activities.

• Preferred: Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, TestRail, Zephyr, Xray, or similar tools.

• Preferred: Experience with automated testing frameworks, CI/CD quality gates, service virtualization, or test data management.

• Preferred: Experience with API, interface, database, accessibility, performance, security, resilience, or migration testing.

• Preferred: Familiarity with Section 508 accessibility testing and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

• Preferred: Familiarity with Agile, DevSecOps, risk-based testing, configuration management, and secure software development practices.

• Preferred: Experience mentoring test engineers or leading a multi-team testing function.

🏝️ Benefits

• Regular full-time employment.

• Requirement for an active Secret clearance or higher associated with a federal government position.

• Opportunity to support the USMEPCOM ENLIST program and the federal/Department of Defense mission.

• Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action protections.

• Consideration of resumes for this position and other similar positions through subsidiaries, affiliates, and teaming partners.