Test Engineering Manager

About the role

As a Test Engineering Manager, you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice as a team lead delivering quality assurance services to support application, cloud, and data systems development. You will lead a team of quality‑assurance and test‑automation professionals to drive projects in an Agile/DevSecOps environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical delivery leader, accountable for completion of team delivery efforts including quality oversight and client acceptance.
• Foster and promote innovative thinking across the client environment.
• Build and maintain client relationships, developing a strategic vision for clients and internal teams.
• Handle challenging client situations and offer technical and business guidance and direction to client executives.
• Manage staff and monitor performance and training needs to create skills expansion and career‑advancement opportunities.
• Understand stakeholder needs and convey them to developers.
• Meet with product design teams to determine testing parameters.
• Write test plans, create test cases, test procedures, bug reports, and final QA reports for products.
• Manage test‑data architecture definition and requests.
• Troubleshoot errors and streamline test procedures.
• Test and examine code written by others and analyze results, including data‑validation testing, functional testing, performance and load testing, usability testing, and accessibility (508) testing.
• Establish automated testing tools and infrastructure for test automation.
• Provide validation testing of different system and data sets for cloud migrations.
• Develop automated testing scripts considering parallelization and idempotency.
• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes.
• Ensure systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats.
• Work with software developers and engineers to ensure development follows established processes and works as intended.
• Document the as‑is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations.
• Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize testing of software systems.
• Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to DevSecOps processes and tools.
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement of services.
• Present regular status updates and provide cross‑training to other DevOps team members.
• Lead and manage team members.
• Assist in sales and technical‑strategy activities beyond the current program.

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of progressive experience in test engineering, including leadership or management of testing teams and quality‑assurance efforts.
• Proven experience leading the deployment of enterprise and custom software solutions in client environments.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and consult while providing thought leadership to sponsors/stakeholders in solving governance, program/project management, business‑process, and technical problems.
• Proven experience growing and selling while delivering.
• 5 years of experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket.
• 5 years of experience with one or more programming or scripting languages.
• 5 years of application DevSecOps experience with active development in an Agile environment.
• Experience utilizing Docker containers and platforms such as Kubernetes.
• 5 years of experience implementing test automation using tools such as Selenium, Appium, SoapUI, RestAssured, or Postman.
• 3 years of experience integrating test automation—including performance, security, and functional tests—into CI/CD pipelines.
• 3 years of experience with performance and load testing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative abilities.
• Experience documenting an as‑is state of the environment, performing gap analyses, and producing artifacts that articulate options and recommendations.
• Active ISTQB certification.
• Active Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Active USDA suitability determination.

Compensation

The projected compensation range for this position is $110,000 to $150,000 annually. Salary is determined by factors such as geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience.