Quality Management Support Project Manager

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4 days ago Requisition

This position is being recruited in support of a current proposal opportunity and is contingent upon Quivera Enterprises being awarded the contract.

Wichita Tribal Enterprises (WTE), a Quivera Enterprises subsidiary, is seeking an experienced Quality Management Support Project Manager – Intermediate to support Indian Affairs (IA) and Office of Information Technology (OIT) programs, projects, and operational initiatives.

The Quality Management Support Project Manager provides specialized expertise in Quality Management, Quality Assurance, and Testing while managing assigned IT projects throughout the project lifecycle. This position serves as an intermediate-level Project Manager and coordinates Government, business, technical, security, vendor, and contractor stakeholders to manage scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, testing, documentation, compliance, and delivery performance.

The position is responsible for establishing and supporting quality-management processes, developing and coordinating test plans and test activities, supporting system and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), tracking defects and quality issues, and helping ensure solutions satisfy documented requirements and are ready for successful deployment.

In addition to Quality Management expertise, the successful candidate must bring substantive experience in at least one complementary IT delivery discipline:
Change & Configuration Management, IT Asset Management, or Business Analysis & Requirements Management
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Working with the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR), Federal Task Lead, project teams, vendors, and other stakeholders, the Project Manager manages resources, risks, dependencies, quality, and customer relationships and supports successful delivery in accordance with task order requirements, federal standards, and Department of the Interior (DOI) and Indian Affairs (IA) policies and procedures.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Quality Management & Testing

• Develop, implement, maintain, and continuously improve quality-management and quality-assurance processes, procedures, standards, templates, and supporting documentation.
• Develop and coordinate comprehensive test plans aligned with approved business, functional, technical, security, and system requirements.
• Develop and maintain test scenarios, test cases, test scripts, test data, acceptance criteria, test schedules, and associated documentation.
• Coordinate and support system testing, functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), as applicable.
• Ensure testing activities provide appropriate traceability between approved requirements, acceptance criteria, test cases, defects, and final results.
• Coordinate test readiness activities and ensure required environments, test data, resources, documentation, and stakeholder participation are available.
• Facilitate UAT planning and execution with Government stakeholders, business users, technical teams, vendors, and other participants.
• Document and track test results, defects, issues, findings, corrective actions, and retesting activities through resolution.
• Coordinate defect triage and assist stakeholders with evaluating severity, priority, impact, ownership, and resolution requirements.
• Monitor quality and testing activities to identify trends, recurring issues, risks, process gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
• Develop and maintain quality metrics, test metrics, dashboards, status reports, and other performance-management artifacts.
• Support quality reviews of project deliverables, processes, documentation, and implementation-readiness activities.
• Evaluate project products and deliverables for completeness, consistency, accuracy, traceability, and compliance with applicable requirements.
• Coordinate corrective and preventive actions resulting from quality reviews, testing, audits, defects, or identified process deficiencies.
• Support continuous process improvement initiatives designed to increase quality, reduce defects, improve testing effectiveness, and strengthen delivery outcomes.
• Coordinate with Change and Configuration Management teams to ensure tested and approved changes are appropriately controlled and documented prior to release or deployment.
• Coordinate with Business Analysts to ensure…