Health IT Agile Test Lead

The ACI Group - Bethesda, MD

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Bethesda, MD

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Health IT Agile Test Lead will manage and lead testing activities for a contract with the Defense Health Agency. This role involves developing test strategies, coordinating with various stakeholders, and ensuring the successful execution of test events. The position requires a strong understanding of both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, as well as experience in Health IT testing.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead day-to-day testing activities to support successful completion of test events.
• Develop and coordinate a test strategy and plan with the Government Test Manager.
• Serve as a liaison between the Test Team, T&E Management, Government Test Manager, Product Manager, and Functional Area Management Teams.
• Maintain situational awareness of issues impacting team assignments and inform T&E Management and Government Test Managers.
• Understand the architecture and configuration of test environments and test scenario conditions/parameters.
• Analyze documents to understand the requirements of the test engagement.
• Train and assist other test analysts in developing and executing test cases, scripts, scenarios, and user stories.
• Document and track test events in a test management tool for planning, execution, and reporting phases.
• Facilitate daily and weekly status meetings, trainings, and test strategy meetings.
• Forecast future test events including scope, complexity, requirements analysis, projected hours, risks, issues, and assumptions.
• Provide support regarding application and environment risks, system architecture, software delivery processes, and scheduling impacts.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in IT or Engineering field.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Kanban credentials or ISTQB Agile Tester Certification.
• Minimum 2 years of relevant Health IT Testing experience or 4 years without a bachelor's degree.
• Experience managing and leading testing and evaluation activities for multiple releases in multiple test environments.
• Experience in both Waterfall and Agile development methodologies.
• Experience using agile tools such as Jira.
• Experience throughout all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for ACAT I or ACAT III systems.
• Experience managing ITIL and ITSM solutions.
• Experience developing, implementing, and managing test cases, scripts, scenarios, and user stories.
• Experience creating and using Requirements Traceability matrices.
• Experience designing, implementing, and conducting test and evaluation procedures.
• Experience providing testing subject matter expertise for complex software/hardware applications.
• Experience with automated test tools like Selenium and Cucumber.
• Experience with performance test tools such as JMeter.
• Experience with DevSecOps concepts.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Attention to detail in test planning, execution, and documentation.

Nice-to-haves

• Certified Software Tester (CSTE)
• Certified Agile Tester (CAT)
• Certified Test Manager (CTM)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• ISTQB Advanced Test Manager

Benefits

• $1000 Referral Bonus
• Full benefits package including varied types of contract, permanent, and contract-to-perm positions.