Sr Software Development Manager Jobs in Virginia

Are you ready to play a crucial role in supporting cutting-edge technology for federal law enforcement and scientific organizations? ECS is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior SDET to provide IT services and support for hardware, IT systems, applications, and operational technologies that support mission critical operations in support of our DOJ FBI Client. The scope of this program is to enhance enterprise IT services and solutions to this FBI component to provide best-in-class end-user support and drive improvements in the operations, management, maintenance, and integration of services across multiple networks, systems, and applications to enable and enhance mission operations for law enforcement capabilities.

In this role, you will be working at the intersection of traditional IT and specialized scientific and operational technology systems to ensure functionality, performance, availability, responsiveness of supported IT systems and services. The Senior SDET is responsible for conducting test activities, leading the creation of a new test suite and associated testing processes. This position requires an exceptional candidate with advanced quality assurance and software testing experience. We use an Agile Scrum methodology and focus on collaboration with our customers. This is an amazing opportunity to transition a team to a more technically advanced automated testing solution.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with software testing best practices and bug/defect management processes and proven experience in delivering realistic estimates and quality products.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Drive the software quality assurance lifecycle delivering on time and high-quality releases
• Perform testing activities to ensure proper tracking and completion each iteration and each larger overall release
• Be an active participant with the customer and, on occasion, development team in the analysis, design, and development process
• Write and revise test-related management plans and formal test procedures
• Identify and make recommendations for testing tools and technology for the creation of test suites, test reports and metrics.
• Identify and track continuous process improvements to the testing process and lead any necessary initiatives for their implementation
• Write and revise test cases
• Set-up and configure test environments.
• Perform functional, exploratory, system, regression and performance testing.

Required Skills:

• US citizenship with active Top Secret clearance.

• Experience providing technical leadership – understands overall architecture, understands software engineering and testing best practices
• Minimum of 8 years' experience, or equivalent certifications demonstrating ability to perform at this level.
• Strong Test Engineer background – tools, practices, risk mitigation
• Experience with test suite development and maintenance
• Experience with C# .NET and HTML
• Automation tools/frameworks: Selenium, Playwright, Appium, Robot, Cucumber, etc.
• Performance testing tools: JMeter, K6, Loadrunner
• CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, Azure Devops, Gitlab
• Experience writing automated tests for web front ends, web services, APIs, and databases
• Experience with manual testing
• Experience with integration testing
• Experience working as part of an agile team using SAFe, Scrum, XP and/or Kanban
• Generation and maintenance of controlled test datasets and scenarios