Description
Quality Assurance Lead
HighPoint professionals focus on helping government agencies and companies implement their most critically strategic initiatives. The role of Quality Assurance Lead contributes to HighPoint by being responsible for the performance of the software test plan development and execution.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:

• Develop and implement efficient and effective testing strategies, test conditions and test scripts for projects.
• Ensure appropriate testing coverage and requirements traceability through the creation, implementation and enhancement of comprehensive test plans, test cases/user stories, test steps and test automation.
• Develop and execute test plans, test cases, scripts, and creating test data for Agile Software Development team; including functional, integration, regression, data integrity and stress testing as well as assisting with user acceptance.
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including successful outcomes of achieving completed user stories and associated test criteria.
• Identify gaps and deficiencies in business requirements, technical specifications, designs and testing documentation for completeness and testability.
• Track defects and reporting key metrics for proactively identifying areas for improvement.
• Coordinate the setup of test environments for all planned test execution activities.
• Manage the change processes such as build promotions to User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Production environments.
• Implement testing and configuration management methodologies to support continuous integration.
• Manage integrated teams to support sprint planning.
• Facilitate effective interaction and coordination between government Project Leads.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Experience defining clear expectations for all testing tasks, including inputs and outputs.
• Experience implementing test tools to support automation and performance testing.
• Proven ability to decompose requirements into detailed test cases for functional and regression test execution.
• Proven ability to identify resource constraints and other potential schedule issues and risks.
• Understanding of software testing types and methods to support Agile Software Development.
• Technical proficiency with SQL including the ability to create queries to validate data integrity and other data constraints.

EDUCATION AND YEARS OF EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree with eight (8) or more years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT environment.
• Certifications must be achieved within six (6) months after contract award:
  • 508 certification.
  • Quality Assurance Institute (QAI).
    • Certified Software Test Engineer (CSTE) certification.

ABOUT HIGHPOINT:
HighPoint is a growth-oriented firm that provides a unique, differentiated employee culture relative to our Federal market peers. We leverage this growth-oriented and employee-focused culture to attract and retain a higher grade of talent than our peers to be an employer of choice.
HighPoint helps government agencies elevate the citizen experience (CX) by improving the touchpoints through which citizens interact with government. We were founded in 2006 by Ben Lanius with the spirit of transforming how agencies connect with and empower citizens to deliver on mission-critical objectives.
At HighPoint, our focus is on delivering results that matter. We support and modernize our federal customer's mission critical systems and functions. Agility is at our core: it is the mantra that drives us to succeed. We work quickly, analytically and deliver on agency priorities.
HighPoint is privately held with 250 plus passionate employees across offices and locations in Indianapolis, Indiana; and Herndon, Virginia.
HighPoint Digital, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, national or ethnic origin, disability or veteran status.
HighPoint Digital, Inc. will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with HighPoint's legal duty to furnish information.