Remote Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Description:

• CTEC is a leading technology firm that provides modernization, digital transformation, and application development services to the U.S. Federal Government.
• The company is headquartered in McLean, VA, and has over 300 team members working on mission-critical systems and projects for various federal agencies.
• CTEC has experienced rapid growth and is seeking to expand its capabilities in cloud development and national-security focused agencies.
• The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer will lead the design and execution of comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and test frameworks to ensure software quality across enterprise systems and data-driven applications.
• Responsibilities include partnering with business analysts and developers to ensure requirements are testable, leading manual and automated testing activities, overseeing defect lifecycle management, and designing automated test frameworks.
• The role also involves leading accessibility compliance testing, planning performance testing, providing quality status reporting, and serving as a quality advocate within Agile/Scrum teams.
• The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer will mentor junior QA staff and identify improvements to QA methodologies and processes.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have at least seven (7–10+) years of experience in software quality assurance, testing, or test engineering roles, including leadership responsibilities.
• Proven experience in developing enterprise-level test strategies, test plans, and automated testing frameworks is required.
• Strong experience with test automation tools and frameworks such as Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, or similar is necessary.
• Extensive experience using Azure DevOps for test case management, defect tracking, and sprint workflows is essential.
• A strong understanding of SDLC methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall, is required.
• Hands-on experience leading Section 508/accessibility compliance testing using relevant tools is necessary.
• Experience leading performance and integration testing activities is required.
• Candidates should possess strong analytical, problem-solving, and root-cause analysis skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level reporting, are essential.
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline is required, or equivalent professional experience will be considered.
• Candidates must be U.S. citizens and able to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Benefits:

• CTEC offers paid vacation and sick leave to its employees.
• Health insurance coverage is provided as part of the benefits package.
• The company supports career training for employee development.
• Performance bonus programs are available to reward employee contributions.
• A 401K contribution and employer match are included in the benefits.
• Employees receive 11 Federal Holidays off each year.