About This Job

As the Senior Quality Assurance Specialist, you will be responsible for driving the quality testing strategy for the implementation of the project's defined and approved Quality Assurance plan. In addition to writing and executing test cases for a large-scale, multi-system project, you will be helping coordinate the testing effort among multiple development teams and ensuring the project implements best practices at each stage of the SDLC. The candidate must be a self-starter, a strong team player with a solutions-focused mindset, and have experience working in complex architectures. The candidate will be expected to quickly learn the domain-specific processes for a Department of Defense (DoD) electronic Procure-to-Pay (P2P) environment. Government procurement system experience is a significant plus.

The candidate must be a self-starter, a strong team player with a solutions-focused mindset, and have experience working with Information Systems in complex architectures. The candidate will be expected to quickly learn the domain-specific processes for a Department of Defense (DoD) electronic Procure-to-Pay (P2P) environment. Government procurement system experience is a significant plus.

The candidate must utilize the Design of Experiments (DOE) systematic approach to plan, conduct, analyze, and interpret controlled tests or experiments. The goal is to record the experiment's data, including the factor settings and the corresponding responses, to facilitate meaningful analysis. Experience collecting data using statistical methods to determine the relationships between the factors and the responses is required.

Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, are required. Must be able to work with engineering and analyst teams, along with the ability to coordinate with government personnel.

Candidates must be U.S. citizens and able to pass a T3 background investigation.

NOTE: This fully remote role requires the candidate to participate in meetings virtually using tools like Microsoft Teams. Online availability during the core hours of 9 AM PST/PDT to 4 PM PST/PDT, Monday through Friday, will be required. Availability to support EST core hours as needed

Responsibilities include

  • Test and troubleshoot code using complex industry programs and practices to detect quality issues with code functionality and performance.
  • Lead a team of contractor and government personnel in testing activities (i.e., Test Readiness Reviews (TRR), Regression Testing, Functional Testing, System Level Developmental Testing (DT), Cybersecurity Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Interface/API Testing, Integration Testing, Smoke Testing, Unit Testing, Performance/Load Testing, and Compliance Testing)
  • Document and assess Test Entrance and Exit Criteria presented in TRRs.
  • Review business and technical requirements to determine testing needs.
  • Assist with risk and impact analysis, escalating issues that threaten the successful completion and deployment of the project’s releases.
  • Consult with Government QA/Test Lead, QA colleagues, project teams, and end users to ensure application system, end-user, and compliance/regulatory requirements are being met.
  • Assists other teams with the evaluation and integration of applications, environments, and processes to be used in the development life cycle.
  • Provide a measurable assessment of QA efforts, recommending process changes as needed to ensure continued standards of quality are met.
  • Proactively communicate the status of the project, the testing effort, impediments, and/or any specific tasks to project team members and QA leadership.
  • Complete risk assessment and communicate results throughout the development cycle, serving as QA point-of-contact for pre-release signoff procedures.
  • Create and maintain documentation related to organizational and project testing efforts (i.e. test plans, test cases, test results, traceability matrixes, etc.)
  • Attend meetings as the Avum QA representative, collaborating with project team members and contributing to discussions with a solution-focused approach.
  • Train and mentor more junior QA resources as needed.
  • Serve as a backup to the Government QA Lead as needed.

Skills and Experience Desired

  • Experienced conducting Design of Experiments (DOE) in quality assurance (QA) to plan, conduct, analyze, and interpret controlled tests or experiments.
  • 8+ years of experience in QA as a self-motivated member of a project team
  • 4+ years of experience leading a testing effort on an agile-based development project
  • Industry-level expert in test planning, test case management, and defect analysis for a variety of tech stacks (i.e., Java, Oracle, Appian, AWS, MarkLogic, etc.).
  • Experience with testing software including Selenium, Cucumber, Postman, Micro-Focus UFT, and JMeter.
  • Recent and relevant experience with identifying and executing functional and regression test cases needed to verify business and technical requirements of a variety of system components
  • Ability to critically review project documentation and identify QA needs
  • Ability to proactively identify and communicate ideas, issues, obstacles, and overall project status
  • Experience coordinating resources, assigning workload, and compiling results within multiple sprint cycles.
  • Experience implementing an Agile Testing Approach that includes the use of Agile Testing Quadrants.
  • Experience working with project management tools (i.e., Jira)
  • Familiar with working on projects using agile (specifically SAFe & Scrum) methodologies
  • Experience with relational database systems, including the ability to write basic SQL queries to support testing and data validation efforts
  • Experience writing automated tests within a Selenium-supported framework
  • Familiarity with continuous delivery (CI/CD) environments (Jenkins and AWS experience is a plus)
  • Experience with performance and load testing
  • Effective written and oral communication skills that encourage a team-focused, success-oriented environment.
  • Self-directed with an ability to manage deadlines and prioritize effectively
  • Desire to collaborate among project departments and mentor more junior resources as needed.
  • Experience supporting the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) Joint Interoperability Testing.

Place of Performance

The candidate will be required to interact and coordinate with external project team members and other Avum employees remotely. As a remote employee, the candidate will not have a permanent office or desk space but may be required to attend in-person meetings. This may require travel to government sites located in Washington, D.C., and the Avum office located in Agoura Hills, California. Our priority is acquiring the most qualified candidate to satisfactorily perform the required tasks, including team collaboration, regardless of the candidate’s geographical location.

Educational/Work Experience

Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college or university with a curriculum or major field of study that provides substantial knowledge useful in system development and is closely related to the work detailed above and/or in computer science, information systems, physical science, engineering or mathematics–intensive discipline, or an applicable training certificate from an accredited training institution.

Salary

Starting salaries for this position range from $124,400 - $158,000 and are commensurate with experience. The position is full-time, salaried, with benefits.

The Company

Avum, Inc. is a certified Small Disadvantaged Business who provides advanced software, database, and business intelligence systems to the DoD/Military, Intelligence Community, and Federal, State, Local and Commercial clients since 1991. We manage technical programs and projects and provide strategic guidance to support our customer's system engineering efforts. We provide sustainment in mission-critical and secure environments. We support information assurance activities and accreditation for the systems we deploy. Our engineers conduct rapid prototyping and Agile customer-focused iterations to produce complex applications, predictive analytic data environments, and NIST SP 800-53 compliant system architecture deployed within Navy and DoD networks. We have subject matter experts in multiple domains and technical expertise across all core technology stacks. We specialize in application development, large-scale database design, data engineering, and data visualization. Through results-driven, agile collaboration, the company continually researches and deploys secure solutions that exceed customer expectations in meeting or beating customer-allocated budgets and schedules. We aspire to the highest standards of ethical behavior and professional integrity in providing our customers with service that consistently earns us the highest possible performance ratings. Please visit our webpage at http://www.avum.com to learn more.