IVVQM​/Senior Project Validation Lead

IVVQM/ Senior Project Validation Lead

• Pay Rate: $67.00/hour (on W2)
• Contract Length: 7 month
• Location: Austin, TX 78759
• Work Hours: Hybrid | Monday | Wednesday | Thursday (no opportunity for remote)

Raise is currently hiring a contract team member on behalf of our client. They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader.

• We are seeking a highly experienced IVVQM (Integration, Verification, Validation and Qualification Manager) / Senior Project Validation Lead to join our team in Austin, Texas.
• You will be part of a dynamic team delivering tailor made solutions to state and local government agencies to issue official documents (Driver’s License, ), and to perform biometric comparisons for government or law enforcement customers.
• This is a central position in our fast paced organization requiring a combination of high technical skills and good communication with a strong problem-solving mindset and leadership skills.
• The IVVQM / Senior Project Validation Lead is a hands-on leadership role that interfaces directly with customers and cross-functional teams (Project Management, Software Engineers, Infrastructure, Product Management, and Operations) in the execution of our projects and deliveries to our customers.

Must have U.S. or Dual Citizenship and be able to obtain post-hire clearance from the Committee on Foreign Investments in the U.S. (CFIUS) and Department of Treasury.

• Partner with sales and technical teams during presales activities to define and implement IVVQ processes and strategies, developing tailored validation and quality management approaches that align with customer requirements and industry standards.
• Support presales efforts by preparing detailed estimates for IVVQ activities, including resource planning and risk assessment, to enable accurate project scoping and cost forecasting.

• Lead validation, verification and quality efforts on complex projects within Identity and Biometric scope.
• Define validation strategy and act as work package manager for project validation activities.
• Responsible for reliability, robustness and performance of full solution by using your quality assurance knowledge.
• Responsible for minimizing project risk and failures, optimize test coverage, estimate and monitor project tasks by understanding solution architecture and software components.
• Create and execute quality assurance plans, acceptance and validation test plans, test scripts and other documents required by project management process.
• Define validation scenarios to ensure requirement coverage and guarantee their implementation.
• Responsible for test execution, defect management, root cause analysis, and resolution tracking across validation and user acceptance environments.
• Review and assess specifications, technical design documents and test scripts of different components.
• Determine and contribute towards automation of new feature tests and expand on regression tests cases.
• Support product release activities by verifying deliverables meet acceptance criteria and quality standards.
• Share responsibility for supporting deployed solution in production environment as Level 3 support.

• Lead project IVVQ activities in coordination with internal IVVQ, cross-functional, and external customer teams to ensure quality and on-time delivery.
• Responsible for working directly with customer during project initiation, implementation, acceptance testing, executive reviews, and issue escalations.
• Work directly with Project Manager, Technical leader and project team to meet the timeline and expected level of quality.
• Report progress against deadlines…