Testing Lead / Manager

About the role

Spatial Front, Inc. (SFI), a two-time USA Today Top Workplaces awardee and Washington Top Workplaces honoree, is seeking a Testing Lead / Manager to oversee testing activities for enterprise application projects. This role requires someone who understands testing frameworks, QA processes, test lifecycle management, automation testing concepts, and structured delivery environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage testing activities across enterprise application projects.
• Develop and maintain test plans, test schedules, testing processes, and execution tracking.
• Cook up testing work across functional testers, technical testers, automation testers, developers, business analysts, project managers, and client stakeholders.
• Assign testing tasks, monitor progress, follow up on open items, and ensure testing deadlines are met.
• Review and verify test cases, test scripts, test results, supporting evidence, and completion status.
• Validate that testing work is accurate, complete, properly documented, and aligned with project requirements.
• Step in to support hands-on testing, issue analysis, documentation review, or validation activities when needed.
• Understand system workflows, data flows, integrations, interfaces, reports, and application behavior at a high level.
• Track testing progress, pass/fail results, defects, blockers, risks, and overall release readiness.
• Lead defect triage meetings and coordinate retesting, validation, and defect closure.
• Work with developers and analysts to understand defects, clarify expected behavior, and verify fixes.
• Review automated test results, identify potential gaps, and coordinate with automation resources when needed.
• Identify testing gaps, risks, and quality concerns, then communicate them clearly to project leadership.
• Prepare and present testing status reports, dashboards, metrics, and go/no-go recommendations.
• Support functional, regression, integration, user acceptance, system, automated, and end-to-end testing activities.
• Help improve testing processes, standards, templates, reporting methods, and quality controls.
• Ensure testers follow defined QA processes, testing frameworks, and project documentation standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• 5+ years of experience in software testing, quality assurance, or enterprise application testing.
• Experience leading testing efforts, managing testers, or coordinating QA workstreams.
• A strong understanding of testing frameworks, QA methodologies, and the software testing lifecycle.
• Experience with test planning, test case development/review, execution tracking, defect management, and release readiness reporting.
• Familiarity with automated testing tools and frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Cucumber, TestNG, JUnit, Postman, SoapUI, Tricentis, Tosca, or similar.
• Ability to oversee testers while maintaining sufficient technical depth to validate their work.
• The ability to review and interpret technical documentation, including user stories, requirements, acceptance criteria, interface specifications, and system design materials.
• Experience in a QA leadership role (e.g., QA Lead, Test Lead, Test Manager, UAT Lead, SIT Lead, or Release Testing Lead).
• Experience testing enterprise systems, including business applications, case management, financial, HR, or government systems.
• Experience working in Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or hybrid delivery environments.
• Experience reviewing automated test execution results, including failure reports, logs, screenshots, and supporting test evidence.
• Experience leading or coordinating User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with business users or client stakeholders.
• Experience developing testing dashboards, metrics, executive summaries, and release readiness reports.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a QA leadership role (e.g., QA Lead, Test Lead, Test Manager, UAT Lead, SIT Lead, or Release Testing Lead).
• Experience testing enterprise systems, including business applications, case management, financial, HR, or government systems.
• Experience working in Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or hybrid delivery environments.
• Experience reviewing automated test execution results, including failure reports, logs, screenshots, and supporting test evidence.
• Experience leading or coordinating User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with business users or client stakeholders.
• Experience developing testing dashboards, metrics, executive summaries, and release readiness reports.
• Experience supporting federal government projects.

Work Environment/Location

This is an onsite/hybrid position based in Crystal City, VA. The Testing Lead / Manager will work closely with project managers, technical teams, testers, business analysts, automation resources, and client stakeholders. The role requires regular communication, meeting facilitation, documentation review, testing coordination, status reporting, and hands-on support when needed. The candidate must be comfortable working in a structured project environment with deadlines, dependencies, formal reporting, and client-facing communication.

About Spatial Front, Inc.

Spatial Front, Inc. is a technology solutions company that supports federal, state, and commercial clients with IT services, software development, data management, systems integration, and digital transformation solutions. We are committed to delivering high-quality solutions that help our clients achieve their mission objectives.