[Hiring] Senior Test Engineering Advisor @Peraton

Role Description

The Test Automation Lead is a designated Key Personnel position supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Supply Chain Management Development Security Operations (SCMDSO) Integration program and the Health Enterprise Logistics Management (HELM) Product Line.

The Test Automation Lead provides product-line leadership for testing and quality engineering across HELM products. The role leads the planning, execution, documentation, and continuous improvement of product-specific testing integrated throughout the Agile/DevSecOps lifecycle, with emphasis on:

• Repeatable automation
• Requirements traceability
• Defect management
• Release readiness
• VA-approved testing practices

The Test Automation Lead works within an Agile/SAFe and DevSecOps delivery environment and collaborates with VA stakeholders, product teams, architects, developers, cybersecurity personnel, integration teams, release personnel, and other contractors to validate:

• Functionality
• Performance
• Accessibility
• Security
• Interoperability
• Operational readiness

Qualifications

• Minimum of 12 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 10 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 7 years with Ph.D.
• Willingness to obtain ISTQB Agile Tester Certification (WS15.1) or equivalent certification in a reasonable amount of time.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain the VA-required Tier 2/Moderate Risk background investigation/Public Trust eligibility.
• Demonstrated professional experience leading software testing, test automation, quality engineering, or verification and validation for complex enterprise IT systems.
• Demonstrated experience designing and maintaining automated and manual test capabilities, regression suites, test plans, test cases/scripts, test evidence, defect workflows, and requirements traceability.
• Experience working in Agile software/product delivery and DevSecOps environments with testing integrated into sprint, build, release, and CI/CD activities.
• Working knowledge of functional, system, regression, accessibility, security, interoperability, performance/load, reliability, usability, and non-functional testing practices.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with technical, functional, program management, product, cybersecurity, release, and customer stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Requirements

• Lead product-specific testing activities across user story, sprint, build, release, and production-readiness phases.
• Develop, implement, maintain, and continuously improve automated test strategies, frameworks, scripts, and regression capabilities.
• Plan and oversee unit, functional, system, reliability, usability, interoperability, regression, security, performance/load, accessibility (Section 508), and other non-functional testing required for HELM products.
• Develop and maintain Test Plans and complete Test Strategy and Test Execution content in VA-approved tools.
• Maintain the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and ensure bi-directional traceability among requirements, design elements, test cases, defects, validation evidence, and releases.
• Lead defect management by ensuring defects are logged promptly, assigned VA-defined severity/impact, prioritized with VA stakeholders, tracked through remediation and retesting, and closed only with documented validation evidence.
• Provide test execution status per sprint and release, Test Summary Reports, performance/load reports, security scan results and remediation evidence, and daily defect status updates in VA-approved repositories.
• Coordinate with product teams, VA stakeholders, dependent solution groups, cybersecurity, architecture, integration, and release teams to define test conditions, validate acceptance criteria, resolve dependencies, and establish release readiness.
• Ensure release-readiness testing satisfies PWS criteria.
• Promote continuous improvement of test quality by expanding automation and applying lessons learned across HELM products.

Benefits

• Salary Range: $146,000 - $234,000.
• Eligibility for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Company Description

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies.

Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces.