Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Cybermedia Technologies, LLC (CTEC) is a leading technology firm that provides modernization, digital transformation, and application development services to the U.S. Federal Government. They are seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to lead test strategy and execution, ensuring software quality across enterprise systems and applications.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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
• Lead manual and automated testing activities, ensuring adequate test coverage across functional, integration, system, regression, and user acceptance testing
• Oversee defect lifecycle management using Azure DevOps, ensuring accurate documentation, prioritization, root-cause analysis, and resolution verification
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks and regression suites to improve testing efficiency and support continuous integration pipelines
• 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
• Plan and oversee performance, load, and integration testing to validate system scalability, stability, and reliability
• Provide quality status reporting, risk assessments, and release readiness recommendations to project leadership and stakeholders
• Serve as a quality advocate within Agile/Scrum teams, participating in sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
• Mentor mid-level and junior QA staff, establish QA best practices, and support continuous improvement of testing processes and standards
• Identify and implement improvements to QA methodologies, automation practices, and toolchains
• Works under minimal supervision with minor guidance from senior personnel

Requirements:

• At least seven (7+) years of experience in software quality assurance, testing, or test engineering roles, including leadership responsibilities
• Proven experience developing enterprise-level test strategies, test plans, and automated testing frameworks
• Strong experience with test automation tools and frameworks such as Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, or similar
• Extensive experience using Azure DevOps for test case management, defect tracking, backlog alignment, sprint workflows, and traceability
• Strong understanding of SDLC methodologies including Agile and Waterfall
• Hands-on experience leading Section 508 / accessibility compliance testing using tools such as ANDI, Color Contrast Checker, CommonLook, or similar
• Experience leading performance and integration testing activities
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and root-cause analysis skills
• Experience working closely with developers, architects, business analysts, and project managers
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level reporting
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline. Equivalent professional experience will be considered in lieu of a degree
• Must be a U.S. citizen and be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance
• Experience supporting U.S. federal government IT systems or modernization programs
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Experience testing cloud-hosted and data-driven applications
• Experience establishing QA standards, governance models, and testing centers of excellence