Testing Lead​/Manager

Description

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.

The Testing Lead / Manager will be responsible for coordinating testers, assigning and tracking testing work, verifying the quality and completeness of test execution, managing defects and risks, and communicating testing status to project managers, technical teams, and client stakeholders. This is a leadership and coordination role, but the successful candidate must also be able to get hands-on when needed. The ideal candidate should have enough technical understanding to review testing work, ask the right questions, identify gaps, validate results, understand system behavior, and support the team when issues require deeper investigation.

The candidate should have strong communication, management, analytical, and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to work effectively with testers, developers, business analysts, project managers, and client stakeholders.

• Lead and manage testing activities across enterprise application projects.
• Develop and maintain test plans, test schedules, testing processes, and execution tracking.
• Coordinate 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.
• Work onsite or in a hybrid capacity in Crystal City, VA, based on project and client needs.

• 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 work streams
• 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
• Experience reviewing test artifacts, including test cases, results, defects, logs, screenshots, and supporting documentation
• Ability to provide hands‑on support for testing, validation, and issue analysis…