Lead Experience Assurance (XA) Professional

Lead Experience Assurance (XA) Professional, #597

Clearance: DHS Public Trust or ability to obtain a DHS Public Trust clearance

Seeking a highly motivated Experience Assurance Professional to join our growing team to develop, support, and modernize mission-critical applications for our DHS customer.  The successful candidate will help provide support to project teams in configuring and base-lining software using automated tools to develop, deploy, and maintain mission-critical applications. You will also prepare configuration documentation and review and recommend improvements to existing CM processes. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to;

• Responsible for the set-up, maintenance and ongoing development of continuous build/ integration infrastructure.
• Creating and maintaining fully automated CI build processes for multiple environments
• Developing build and deployment scripts.
• Supporting CI/CD tools integration/ operations/ change management, and maintenance.
• Support full automation of CI/CD Development and Testing.
• Supporting policies, standards, guidelines, governance and related guidance for both CI/CD operations and for work of developers.
• Enable successful release management by moving code from Development and Testing environments to Staging and Production in AWS

Required Skills / Qualifications;

• U.S. Citizenship
• DHS HQ EOD required to start; must be able to obtain DHS HQ Final Suitability
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in IT related field +10 years’ experience
• Experience with build automation CM tools – Jenkins preferred
• Knowledge of implementing CI/CI pipeline
• Experience in Jira to support DevOps implementation in an Agile environment
• Experience implementing a CICD pipeline
• Managing customer’s expectations and communicating potential risks and dependencies impacting work and schedule
• Coordinating work and execution with various teams (infrastructure, development, business) to meet requirements and timelines
• Collaborating with agile team members (SM, developers, testers etc.) to facilitate removal of technical blockers
• Safeguarding business to customer relationship and cultivating trust to ensure all stakeholders can collaborate and work towards the mission

Desired Skills / Qualifications;

• Experience with build-time dependency management (Maven, Ivy), Unit testing and code-coverage tools (JUnit), and Functional test automation techniques and tools (Selenium, etc.)
• Knowledge of source code control management systems and configuration management ( i.e. Git, Subversion, etc.) and code branching/merging strategies 
• Some experience in Oracle RDBMS, PL/SQL and SQL*Plus
• Some experience in UNIX/LINUX shell scripting.
• Certification in SAFe, SCRUM or Kanban
• Proven track record as a self-learner keeping current with the latest techniques to include automated code scanning, automated testing, continuous integration and continuous deployment concepts

Education

• Bachelor’s degree

Clearance

• DHS – Public Trust or ability to obtain