About This Job

As the Quality Assurance Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in implementing the quality testing strategy outlined in the project's approved Quality Assurance plan. Your responsibilities will include writing and executing test cases for a large-scale, multi-system project, coordinating testing efforts among multiple development teams, and ensuring adherence to best practices throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

We're looking for a self-motivated team player with a solutions-focused mindset, ideally experienced in working with Information Systems within complex architectures. You'll be expected to swiftly grasp domain-specific processes for a Department of Defense (DoD) electronic Procure-to-Pay (P2P) environment, with prior government procurement system experience being highly advantageous.

Your expertise should extend to employing the Design of Experiments (DOE) systematic approach to plan, conduct, analyze, and interpret controlled tests or experiments. Proficiency in collecting data using statistical methods to decipher relationships between factors and responses is essential.

Effective communication skills, both written and oral, are paramount. You must collaborate seamlessly with engineering and analyst teams, while also adeptly coordinating with government personnel.

Candidates must be U.S. citizens and able to pass a T3 background investigation.

Location 

For this fully remote position, the candidate must be available to participate in virtual meetings via platforms like Microsoft Teams. Core hours are from 9 AM PST/PDT to 4 PM PST/PDT, Monday through Friday, with flexibility to support EST core hours as necessary.

As part of the remote setup, the candidate will collaborate with external project team members and Avum employees. Although primarily remote, occasional in-person meetings may be required, potentially including travel to government sites in Washington, D.C., and the Avum office in Agoura Hills, California.

Responsibilities include

• Test and troubleshoot code using complex industry programs and practices to detect quality issues with code functionality and performance.
• Support contractor and government personnel in testing activities (i.e., Test Readiness Reviews (TRR), Regression Testing, Functional Testing, System Level Developmental Testing (DT), Cybersecurity Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Interface/API Testing, Integration Testing, Smoke Testing, Unit Testing, Performance/Load Testing, and Compliance Testing).
• Review business and technical requirements to determine testing needs.
• Assist with writing and maintaining test cases and other supporting documentation for individual and team testing efforts.
• Assist with risk and impact analysis, escalating issues that threaten the successful completion and deployment of the project’s releases.
• Collaborate with QA/Test Leads, project teams, and end users to ensure application system, end-user, and compliance/regulatory requirements are met.
• Communicate project status, testing progress, impediments, and specific tasks to project team members and QA leadership actively.
• Complete risk assessment and communicate results throughout the development cycle, serving as QA point-of-contact for pre-release signoff procedures.
• Create and maintain documentation related to organizational and project testing efforts, including test plans, test cases, test results, and traceability matrices.
• Attend meetings as a QA representative, contributing to discussions with a solution-focused approach.
• Train and mentor more junior QA resources as needed.

Skills and Experience Desired

• 4-7 years of experience in QA as a self-motivated member of a project team.
• Ability to quickly learn domain-specific processes for a Department of Defense (DoD) electronic Procure-to-Pay (P2P) environment.
• Experience collecting and analyzing data using statistical methods.
• Experienced conducting Design of Experiments (DOE) in quality assurance (QA) to plan, conduct, analyze, and interpret controlled tests or experiments.
• Experience with test planning, test case management, and defect analysis for a variety of tech stacks (i.e., Java, Oracle, Appian, AWS, MarkLogic, etc.).
• Experience identifying and executing functional and regression test cases to verify the business and technical requirements of a variety of system components.
• Experience with testing software including Selenium, Cucumber, and Postman.
• Ability to critically review project documentation and identify QA needs.
• Ability to proactively identify and communicate ideas, issues, obstacles, and overall project status.
• Experience supporting an Agile Testing Approach that includes the use of Agile Testing Quadrants.
• Experience working with project management tools (i.e., Jira).
• Familiar with working on projects using agile (specifically SAFe & Scrum) methodologies.
• Effective written and oral communication skills that encourage a team-focused, success-oriented environment.
• Ability to manage deadlines and prioritize tasks effectively.
• Experience writing automated tests within a Selenium-supported framework is a plus.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, analyst teams, and government personnel.
• Desired familiarity with continuous delivery (CI/CD) environments is a plus.
• Desired Government procurement system experience.
• Desired strong team player with a solutions-focused mindset with experience in complex architectures.

Educational/Work Experience

A bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college or university with a curriculum or major field of study that provides substantial knowledge useful in system development and is closely related to the work detailed above and/or in computer science, information systems, physical science, engineering, or mathematics–intensive discipline, or an applicable training certificate from an accredited training institution.

Salary

Starting salaries for this position range from $80,000 - $126,000 and are commensurate with experience. The position is full-time, salaried, with benefits.

The Company

Avum, Inc. is a certified Small Disadvantaged Business providing advanced software, database, and business intelligence systems to the DoD/Military, Intelligence Community, and Federal, State, Local and Commercial clients since 1991. We manage technical programs and projects and provide strategic guidance to support our customer's system engineering efforts. We provide sustainment in mission-critical and secure environments. We support information assurance activities and accreditation for the systems we deploy. Our engineers conduct rapid prototyping and Agile customer-focused iterations to produce complex applications, predictive analytic data environments, and NIST SP 800-53 compliant system architecture deployed within Navy and DoD networks. We have subject matter experts in multiple domains and technical expertise across all core technology stacks. We specialize in application development, large-scale database design, data engineering, and data visualization. Through results-driven, agile collaboration, the company continually researches and deploys secure solutions that exceed customer expectations in meeting or beating customer-allocated budgets and schedules. We aspire to the highest standards of ethical behavior and professional integrity in providing our customers with service that consistently earns us the highest possible performance ratings. Please visit our webpage at http://www.avum.com to learn more.