Senior Test Engineer

Based in the National Capital Region, Pivot Path Solutions, LLC is a government contracting and management consulting firm that offers enterprise IT solutions, strategic planning, organizational development, and business transformation services to help customers adapt and thrive in changing market conditions. Pivot Path Solutions is seeking a highly experienced Senior Test Engineer to lead and manage the daily testing activities required to support the successful completion of test events within Health IT systems. This role will involve the development and coordination of test strategies, serving as a liaison between internal and external stakeholders, and maintaining situational awareness to ensure timely completion of test engagements. The Senior Test Engineer will also mentor other test analysts, document testing activities, and forecast future test events, ensuring that all requirements are met with a high level of quality and efficiency. This is a remote position. 
Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing and leading the day-to-day testing activities required to support successful completion of test events,
• Develop and coordinate a test strategy and plan with Government Test Manager that will address and identify work breakdown structure, test architecture, schedule, deliverables, required resources, risk assessment, and quality control,
• Serve as Liaison between the Test Team, T&E Management, the Government Test Manager, the Product Manager, and Functional Area Management Teams,
• Maintain situational awareness of issues or situations that may impact the ability of the team to complete assignments on time and ensure that T&E Management and Government Test Managers are kept appropriately informed,
• Understanding the architecture and configuration of test environments and test scenario conditions/parameters by providing overall frameworks for all of the tests to be performed for a test engagement, including identifying types of tests needed and objectives to be addressed,
• Analyzing documents (e.g., design, requirements, architecture, diagrams, flowcharts) to obtain an understanding of the requirements of the test engagement,
• Training and assisting other test analysts in development and execution of test cases, test scripts, test scenarios and user stories,
• Document and track test events in test management tool for planning, execution, and reporting phases of each test event,
• Facilitate daily and weekly internal and external status meetings, trainings, and test strategy meetings to ensure testing team is well informed of ongoing testing activities, knowledgeable in all MHS applications, and identify risks early in the project lifecycle,
• Forecast for future test events to includes scope, complexity, requirements analysis breakdown, projected hours, risks, issues, and assumptions, and
• Provide support regarding application and environment risks, system architecture, software delivery processes, and scheduling impacts.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher IT or Engineering field with minimum 2 years of relevant Health IT Testing experience or a minimum of 4 years of relevant Health IT Testing experience without a bachelor’s degree,
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Kanban credentials or ISTQB Agile Tester Certification
• Experienced managing and leading testing and evaluation activities for multiple sustainment and new development releases concurrently in multiple test environments,
• Must have experience in both the Waterfall and Agile development methodology, and experience using many of the agile tools included in the development/test Tool Suite (e.g., Jira),
• Experience in working throughout all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for ACAT I or ACAT III systems is preferred,
• Experience in managing ITIL and ITSM solutions,
• Experience in developing, implementing, and managing test cases, test scripts, test scenarios and user stories,
• Experience creating and using Requirements Traceability matrices to manage testing scope and track defects,
• Experience designing, implementing, and conducting test and evaluation procedures to ensure functional and non-functional requirements are met, and
• Experience providing testing subject matter specialist know-how for the support of user requirements of complex to highly complex software/hardware applications.
• Experience with automated test tools, such as Selenium and Cucumber,
• Experience with performance test tools such as JMeter
• Experience with DevSecOps concepts.

What We Offer:
Pivot Path Solutions strives to attract, motivate, and retain the best people in the industry. Our benefits package reflects our continued commitment to our employees by prioritizing the health and well-being of each member. These benefits include:

• Comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Generous Contribution on Dental and Vision Insurances 
• 100% Employer Paid Group Life Insurance, Short Term and Long-Term Disability 
• Safe Harbor 401(K) Plan
• Health Saving Account (HSA) 
• Healthcare Flexible Saving Account (FSA) and Dependent Care FSA
• Education Reimbursement 
• Employee Referral Program

U.S Citizenship is required for this specific opportunity and all selected applicants will be subject to a government security investigation. This includes but not limited to; meeting the eligibility requirements for access to classified information and the ability to obtain a government-granted security clearance. Individuals may also be subject to a background investigation including, but not limited to criminal history, employment verification, education verification, drug testing, and creditworthiness.
Pivot Path Solutions, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or genetic information.