Software Quality Engineer - TS/SCI with Polygraph

In this role, you will: Design, maintain, and continuously improve the program's quality management approach across all task orders (e.g., quality plan, standards, templates).Ensure the program's software-development lifecycle (SDLC), Agile/SAFe practices, and DevSecOps processes have clearly defined quality criteria at each stage. Align quality practices with contract requirements, customer standards, and GDIT policies. Serve as the ultimate technical authority for QA tooling and architecture. Define and document key processes for requirements, design, coding, testing, release, defect management, and configuration management. Perform periodic process compliance checks (e.g., audits, walkthroughs, spot checks) across task orders to verify teams are following agreed practices. Collect and analyze findings, drive corrective actions, and track closure of non-conformances or observations. Facilitate continual improvement cycles by capturing lessons learned and updating processes, checklists, and templates. Define and maintain a consistent set of quality and mission assurance metrics for the program, such as: Defect density and leakage (e.g., defects escaping to higher environments/production).Test coverage, automation rates, and rework. Release quality (e.g., incidents post-deployment, rollback rates).Consolidate and analyze quality data across task orders; identify trends, hotspots, and systemic issues. Provide regular quality dashboards and narratives to PMO, program leadership, and customer stakeholders. Partner with program management to identify and track quality-related risks and issues in the program risk/issue register. Lead or support root cause analysis (RCA) for significant defects, outages, or delivery failures and ensure corrective/preventive actions (CAPAs) are defined and implemented. Monitor the effectiveness of CAPAs and adjust as needed to prevent recurrence. Collaborate with the Lead Agilist, Solution Architect, and tech leads to embed quality practices into: Backlog refinement, Definitions of Ready/Done. Testing strategies (unit, integration, system, performance, security).CI/CD pipelines (e.g., automated quality gates, static code analysis, security scans).Promote and support test automation and "shift-left" quality practices to reduce defects and rework. Ensure quality checkpoints are integrated into program ceremonies (e.g., PI planning, system demos, retros).Define acceptance criteria and review standards for key program deliverables (documents, designs, plans, test evidence, release packages).Perform independent quality reviews of high-risk or high-visibility deliverables prior to submission to the customer. Participate in release readiness reviews, confirming that quality thresholds and exit criteria are met before deployment. Support program management as the primary voice on quality-related topics in customer reviews, audits, and status meetings. Prepare and present quality performance summaries, trends, and improvement plans to customer stakeholders. Coordinate responses to customer quality concerns, audits, or findings; track and report closure. Ensure teams adhere to program quality standards and reporting expectations. Perform or coordinate quality reviews of team deliverables and contributions. Support harmonization of quality approaches across task orders so the program operates with a common baseline and shared best practices. Provide training or orientation to new team members, Scrum teams, and task leads on program quality expectations, processes, and tools. Coach teams on best practices in software quality, test design, defect prevention, and documentation. Promote a culture where team members proactively raise quality issues and participate in improvement efforts

Required Qualifications: BS/BA or equivalent experienceTS/SCI with Polygraph 10+ years of progressive software engineering and quality assurance experience, with a proven track record of moving from hands-on technical contributor to senior leadership 5+ years of experience leading teams with demonstrated ability to plan, organize, and implement significant strategic initiatives. Demonstrable experience architecting and executing a large-scale manual-to-automation transformation. Must be able to speak deeply to the technical framework design, ROI analysis, and change management strategies used. Deep, hands-on expertise with modern automation tooling, CI/CD pipeline integration, and testing large-scale, multi-tier, service-oriented architectures.

Desired Skills and Experience: Experience evaluating and implementing GenAI tooling to accelerate test script generation, optimize test data management (including synthetic data for PHI/PII), and improve overall QA efficiency. Familiarity with modern automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress) and shift-left API testing strategies. Experience with traditional enterprise stacks, including Java, Jira, GitHub, and DB2 (or similar) on large-scale applications. Deep knowledge of DORA metrics (Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Change Failure Rate) and establishing engineering benchmarks. The likely salary range for this position is $162,037 - $219,227. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range. Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Travel Required: None

Work Location: USA VA Chantilly