Quality Assurance Specialist
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About this role
ECS is seeking an experienced Quality Assurance Specialist to work remotely providing support for cloud-related application and infrastructure migration and modernization efforts performed under this contract for NIH NIAID Enabling and Advancing Technologies (NEAT). This engagement supports the External Enterprise Software Development Support Services program area which includes the development, support, and maintenance of NIH enterprise applications managed by the Software Engineering Branch.
Please Note: This position is contingent upon [contract win].
The NIAID NEAT Quality Assurance Specialist will perform Quality Assurance checks and provide software testing services for all applications maintained by SEB.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain the level of quality throughout the software life cycle.
- Develop and implement quality control and testing methodologies to ensure compliance with quality assurance standards, guidelines, and procedures.
- Establish measures to evaluate software quality and maintain a process for testing and creating associated documentation, including use of automated testing tools where practical.
- Conduct and/or participate in formal and informal reviews at pre-determined points throughout the development life cycle.
- Ensure adherence to the HHS EPLC-compliant, software development life cycle as well as other government standards such as 508 Compliance
- Develop and define major and minor characteristics of quality including quality metrics and scoring parameters and determine requisite quality control resources.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security or related field.
- Active Public Trust or higher security clearance.
- Minimum 5 + years’ experience supporting Health IT software development initiatives.
- Active Public Trust or higher security clearance.
- Proficiency in establishing and maintaining quality control processes.
- Knowledge of determining resource requirements for quality control.
- Prior supervisory experience in directing support staff.
- Demonstrated experience in maintaining quality levels throughout the software lifecycle.
- Ability to conduct effective formal and informal reviews.
- Reside within the Washington DC Metro area.
- Travel within the Washington DC Metro Area, and CONUS as needed.