Lead Automation Tester

Lead Automation Tester

This hybrid position requires onsite presence in McLean, VA (Tyson's Corner) as needed. Candidates must be U.S. citizens and able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

• Serve as Lead Automation Tester supporting enterprise systems across development, integration, test, and pre‑production environments (physical and virtual).
• Drive continuous improvements to automate test scripts and introduce innovative testing and quality assurance initiatives aligned with contract priorities.
• Own the test planning discipline, including quality standards, test entry/exit criteria, and gatekeeping across all test cycles to ensure consistency and timely reporting of results.
• Plan, execute, and oversee regression, integration, compatibility, performance, security, and compliance testing to validate readiness for deployment.
• Develop and maintain test plans, test cases, test results, and test reports, ensuring traceability between requirements, changes, and test outcomes.
• Lead defect intake, tracking, reporting, and management, coordinating retesting activities and supporting restoration actions tied to defects, including break‑fix and service restoration.
• Coordinate with operations, automation, and engineering teams to support test lab environments, including scaling test instances up or down based on testing demand.

• U.S. citizenship; no dual citizenship.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Hybrid remote role—candidate must be able to commute to McLean, Virginia as required.
• 4+ years of experience in quality assurance, software/system testing, or test automation in an enterprise IT environment.
• Proven experience supporting test lab environments (virtual and physical), including environment readiness and sustainment.
• Strong experience with test automation frameworks and tools.
• Hands‑on expertise in test planning, test case development, execution, results analysis, and reporting.
• Experience conducting regression, integration, compatibility, and performance testing across enterprise systems.
• Demonstrated ability to track, manage, and report defects, coordinate retesting, and validate fixes through closure.
• Ability to produce and maintain traceability documentation linking requirements, changes, tests, and outcomes.
• Strong communication skills for conveying quality status, risks, and results to technical and management stakeholders.

Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.

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