Test Engineer Manager

About the role

Are you an experienced, passionate pioneer in technology who wants to work in a collaborative environment? As an experienced Test Engineer Manager, you will have the ability to share new ideas and collaborate on projects as a consultant without the extensive demands of travel. The Project Delivery Talent Model is designed for professionals with specialized skills that align to a current client need. Team members focus on delivering services to clients, without additional expectations related to business development or promotion. Their employment is tied to their role on a project.

Responsibilities

• Lead ETL, AWS, and Databricks testing for government business initiatives, owning the Integrated Test Environment (INT) to maintain stable, efficient, and reliable testing operations.
• Validate data extraction, transformation, and loading processes to ensure accuracy, completeness, integrity, and reconciliation between source and target systems.
• Direct system, integration, regression, end-to-end, and user acceptance testing across complex data and cloud environments.
• Perform API testing using Postman and lead root cause analysis for defects through identification, resolution, and closure.
• Build and maintain test automation frameworks for ETL and cloud testing, improving test coverage, repeatability, and delivery speed.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and measure the efficiency gains, cost savings, and business value delivered.
• Manage outsourced and offshore testing arrangements, including coordination, quality oversight, deliverable management, and performance tracking.
• Mentor QA team members and collaborate across a highly matrixed organization to align business analysts, developers, and data engineers on requirements, testing strategies, and quality standards.

Skills

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to mentor and provide clear guidance to others

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in technology consulting and/or industry experience
• Experience with embedded quality and testing across large-scale transformation programs.
• Demonstrated experience with AWS
• Demonstrated experience with tools such as Jira, Zephyr, Confluence, or similar tools.
• Experience providing leadership for projects of various sizes and levels of complexity.
• Experience with Agile methodology
• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or related IT discipline; or equivalent experience
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available
• Ability to travel 10%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve. This may include overnight travel.
• Preferred: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or equivalent
• Preferred: SAFe or Scrum certification (e.g., SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, CSPO)
• Preferred: Strong interpersonal skills including problem solving, decision making, influencing, change management, written and oral communications, and ability to work effectively with diverse groups
• Preferred: Ability to navigate a highly matrixed organization effectively, as well as manage outsourced/offshore testing arrangements

Benefits

Eligible for a benefits package that is competitive for project delivery-focused professionals.