Quality Assurance Lead

Role Overview

• supports the Case Management Modernization (CMM) Program for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AO) by overseeing all aspects of quality assurance (QA), testing governance, and compliance verification across Agile and DevSecOps teams.
• ensures that CMM application components meet stringent federal standards for quality, performance, and security.
• establishes consistent quality frameworks, enforces traceability, and validates adherence to program-level policies, regulations, and modernization objectives.
• Define and maintain test management standards, methodologies, and metrics aligned with Agile and SAFe delivery models.
• Oversee functional, integration, regression, performance, and security testing activities across all CMM applications.
• Ensure compliance with federal standards including Section 508 accessibility, FedRAMP security, and NIST controls.
• Coordinate with Product Owners, Developers, and Automation Test Engineers to validate acceptance criteria and test coverage.
• Establish and maintain traceability matrices linking requirements to test cases, defects, and validation artifacts.
• Support independent verification and validation (IV&V) processes and compliance audits.
• Review and approve test plans, results, and release readiness documents prior to production deployment.
• Define and track QA metrics (defect density, test pass rates, mean time to resolution) to drive continuous improvement.
• Promote shift-left testing, early defect detection, and alignment of QA practices with DevSecOps pipelines.
• Provide oversight for quality-related documentation, ensuring audit readiness and adherence to SOW deliverables.

Requirements

• 8+ years of related experience
• Proven ability to implement QA frameworks supporting large-scale Agile or SAFe development programs.
• Deep understanding of federal compliance standards (FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST, Section 508).
• Experience defining test strategies for cloud-native and containerized applications on AWS or Azure.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps pipelines and continuous testing tools.
• Strong analytical and documentation skills with experience supporting IV&V and audit activities.
• Excellent leadership and stakeholder engagement capabilities.
• 10+ years of experience in software testing and QA governance, with 5+ years in a lead or managerial capacity.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud

Benefits

• variety of medical plan options
• some with Health Savings Accounts
• dental plan options
• vision plan
• 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
• full flex work weeks where possible
• vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
• 15 days of paid leave per calendar year
• 10 paid holidays per year
• Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees
• short and long-term disability benefits
• life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.