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Lead Automation Tester

Maximus
McLean, USA
Full-time
Mid · 4+ years experience
Hybrid
Discovered 1 weeks ago
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Description & Requirements

  • The Lead Automation Tester is responsible for leading automated testing efforts, owning test planning and quality standards, managing defects and retesting, and supporting test lab environments to ensure consistent, timely, and high‑quality system releases across complex IT environments.

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. - Coordinate with operations, automation, and engineering teams to support test lab environments, including scaling test instances up or down based on testing demand.

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements

  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust is required. Active Public Trust and/or DHS Suitability is preferred. U.S. citizenship or U.S. national status required.
  • - 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.
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