Lead Automation Tester

Job Summary

Maximus is seeking a Lead Automation Tester to join our team. This role is contingent upon contract award and position availability. Selected candidates will receive a contingent offer of employment, which will become final upon contract award and position availability.

Requirements

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust is required.
• An active Public Trust and/or DHS suitability is preferred.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen without dual citizenship.
• This role is hybrid, allowing for remote work, but requires the ability to work onsite at the work location in McLean, VA as required.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Serve as Lead Automation Tester supporting enterprise systems across development, integration, test, and pre-production environments (physical and virtual).
• Drive gradual improvements to automate test scripts and introduce innovative testing and quality assurance initiatives aligned with contract priorities.
• Own the test planning discipline, including quality standards, test entry/exit criteria, and gatekeeping across all test cycles to ensure consistency and timely reporting of results.
• Plan, execute, and oversee regression, integration, compatibility, performance, security, and compliance testing to validate readiness for deployment.
• Develop and maintain test plans, test cases, test results, and test reports, ensuring traceability between requirements, changes, and test outcomes.
• Lead defect intake, tracking, reporting, and management, coordinating retesting activities and supporting restoration actions tied to defects, including break-fix and service restoration.
• Cook up with operations, automation, and engineering teams to support test lab environments, including scaling test instances up or down based on testing demand.

Minimum Requirements

• Due to Federal requirements candidates must be U.S. citizens without dual citizenship with another country.
• Public Trust clearance, DHS suitability or the ability to successfully pass a government-sponsored process for Public Trust clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent relevant professional experience.
• 4+ years of experience in quality assurance, software/system testing, or test automation in an enterprise IT environment.
• Proven experience supporting test lab environments (virtual and physical), including environment readiness and sustainment.
• Strong experience with test automation frameworks and tools used for testing.
• Hands-on expertise in test planning, test case development, execution, results analysis, and reporting.
• Experience conducting regression, integration, compatibility, and performance testing across enterprise systems.
• Demonstrated ability to track, manage, and report defects, coordinate retesting, and validate fixes through closure.
• Ability to produce and maintain traceability documentation linking requirements, changes, tests, and outcomes.
• Strong communication skills for conveying quality status, risks, and results to technical and management stakeholders.