Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Duties and Responsibilities

• Test Strategy & Planning: Lead the design and execution of comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and test frameworks to ensure software quality across enterprise systems and data-driven applications.
• Requirements & User Story Validation: Partner with business analysts, product owners, and developers to ensure requirements are testable, define acceptance criteria, and maintain end-to-end traceability using Azure DevOps.
• Test Execution Oversight: Lead manual and automated testing activities, ensuring adequate test coverage across functional, integration, system, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Defect Management & Governance: Oversee defect lifecycle management using Azure DevOps, ensuring accurate documentation, prioritization, root-cause analysis, and resolution verification.
• Test Automation Leadership: Design, implement, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks and regression suites to improve testing efficiency and support continuous integration pipelines.
• Accessibility & 508 Compliance Leadership: Lead Section 508 and accessibility compliance testing using tools such as ANDI, Color Contrast Checker, CommonLook, and similar evaluation tools to ensure applications meet federal accessibility requirements.
• Performance & Non-Functional Testing: Plan and oversee performance, load, and integration testing to validate system scalability, stability, and reliability.
• Release Readiness & Quality Reporting: Provide quality status reporting, risk assessments, and release readiness recommendations to project leadership and stakeholders.
• Agile Participation & Quality Advocacy: Serve as a quality advocate within Agile/Scrum teams, participating in sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Mentorship & Team Leadership: Mentor mid-level and junior QA staff, establish QA best practices, and support continuous improvement of testing processes and standards.
• Continuous Process Improvement: Identify and implement improvements to QA methodologies, automation practices, and toolchains.
• Works under minimal supervision with minor guidance from senior personnel.