Quality Assurance Specialist​/Manager Security Clearance

Position: Quality Assurance Specialist/Manager with Security Clearance
Seeking a highly qualified Quality Assurance Specialist to join a mission-focused team that maintains applications, services, microservices, Platform as a Service (PaaS), and support services. The effort requires the maintenance and enhancement of an application and underlying services/microservices’ application’s current capability while identifying future capability needs and eliminating overlaps. The team will continuously improve sustainment and development in order to reinvest resources to provide new capabilities and improve the effectiveness, quality, and robustness of the underlying technology.

Our applications are focused on intelligence analysis and collection management directly supporting intelligence analysts and operators across the intelligence community and Combatant Commands. The Quality Assurance Specialist will advise on work concerned with assuring the quality of the acquired, developed, delivered, and maintained products. The work of this series involves: (1) the development of plans and programs for achieving and maintaining product quality throughout the item's life cycle;

(2) monitoring operations to prevent the production of defects and to verify adherence to quality plans and requirements; and (3) analysis and investigation of adverse quality trends or conditions and initiation of corrective action. The duties of these positions require analytical ability combined with knowledge and application of assurance principles and techniques, and knowledge of pertinent product characteristics and the associated manufacturing processes and techniques.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Supports software and web architecture development, requirements analysis, process execution and evaluation, selection and evaluation of COTS/GOTS tools, and integration (with both new and legacy systems). Interacts with customers and development team to gather and define requirements. Analyzes and studies customer requirements to determine the most effective software and web technologies to satisfy their needs. Organizes and maintains all quality assurance and independent verification and validation (IV&V) documentation required.

Responsible for ensuring compliance with recognized standards and practices. Participates in developing and delivering training as requested by the government to support applications. Reviews all documentation for completeness, accuracy, and correctness personnel as a witness to testing requirements; presents IV&V results and troubleshoots technical problems; makes recommendations to improve overall quality. Certifies that deliverables have met all quality requirements. Familiar with Dev Sec Ops  and testing toolsets.

Required Qualifications , Education, and

Experience:

Active TOP SECRET/SCI with a CI polygraph test.
Must be DoD 8570 compliant at IA Technical (IAT)/IA Management (IAM) Level 2.
Experience working on a development team under DoD/DIA Dev Sec Ops  process.

Experience with multiple configuration management tools and resources.
Understanding of Oracle and/or CENTOS architecture builds.
Familiar with Git Lab, Bitbucket, Confluence, JIRA, Nexus, Jenkins and other Dev Sec Ops  tools.
Must be analytical and effectively able to prioritize needs, requirements, and other issues. Desired Qualifications, Education, and

Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in business, information technology, or information management, or seven years of comparable work experience. Seven (7) or more years of quality assurance experience with ISO 9001:2015, CMMI-L3, and agile development. Experience in the Intelligence Community. Strong risk management skills, excellent communication, teamwork and conflict management skills. The Successful Candidate will Possess:
Prospective candidates should have strong risk management skills, excellent communication, teamwork, and conflict management skills. The candidate must be analytical and effectively able to prioritize needs, requirements, and other issues. Ability to communicate and interact effectively at all levels of staff and management. Ability to exercise independent judgment, develop relationships, and obtain consensus among interested parties.…