Lead QA Resource - Platform Governance & Security Testing Specialist

Lead QA Resource - Platform Governance & Security Testing Specialist

Fort Mill, SC | Long-term Contract

Position Overview

Seeking an experienced Lead QA Resource to lead enterprise-wide quality assurance for platform governance, security automation, and compliance initiatives. Focus on establishing a QA Center of Excellence, implementing comprehensive testing frameworks for security implementations, and ensuring quality validation across all Snowflake platform management activities.

Core Responsibilities

• Establish QA Center of Excellence framework and testing standards for platform governance
• Design and execute comprehensive test plans for audit finding remediation including Cyber Ark integration
• Develop testing strategies for Dynamic Data Masking policies and Protegrity tokenization validation
• Create test frameworks for Dynamic Data Classification and credential protection systems
• Validate automated service account credential rotation processes
• Collaborate with Service Now and IIQ teams to validate automated user provisioning workflows
• Design and execute API testing for Snowflake integrations with Service Now andIIQ systems
• Validate complete user access provisioning and infrastructure deployment automation across all environments
• Test and validate Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) processes and documentation
• Establish comprehensive testing protocols for resource monitoring and alerting systems
• Lead thorough testing of all ETL/ELT processes post-security implementations
• Design and execute comprehensive data integrity validation across all security frameworks
• Conduct quality assurance for Snowflake use case inventory accuracy and ownership alignment
• Validate compliance with audit requirements and regulatory standards

Required Technical Expertise

Snowflake Platform Testing – Advanced testing methodologies for Snowflake administration, Dynamic Data Masking/Classification validation, RBAC testing, API testing, monitoring and alerting validation

Security & Identity Management Testing – Cyber Ark PAM integration testing, Protegrity tokenization validation, AWS Secrets Manager/Conjur Vault testing, SailPoint IIQ/Identity Now testing, automated credential rotation validation

Automation & Dev Ops Testing – Infrastructure as Code testing (Terraform/Cloud Formation), CI/CD pipeline validation, Service Now workflow testing, API automation testing using Python/Power Shell

Required Experience

• 8+ years enterprise data platform quality assurance experience
• 5+ years hands-on Snowflake testing, security validation, and platform QA
• 3+ years implementing enterprise security and governance testing frameworks
• 2+ years privileged access management and identity governance testing experience
• Proven audit compliance testing experience in regulated environments
• Large-scale automation and integration testing project leadership

Phase 1: QA Foundation

• Establish QA Center of Excellence framework and testing standards documentation
• Design test cases for RBAC stabilization and Confluence inventory validation

Phase 2:
Security Testing Implementation

• Execute comprehensive testing for Dynamic Data Masking and classification policies platform-wide
• Validate Protegrity tokenization implementation across all environments
• Complete end-to-end testing for Service Now and IIQ workflow integrations with secrets management

Phase 3:
Automation Testing & Validation

• Validate complete automation of user and service account provisioning
• Execute comprehensive testing for full infrastructure automation across all environments
• Finalize testing protocols and quality validation frameworks

Stakeholder Collaboration

Key Partners: Info Sec Team (security testing validation), Service Now Team (workflow testing), IIQ Team (identity governance testing), Product Owners (requirements…