Quality Assurance Lead - U.S. Citizenship Required

Why do you need to choose between doing important work and having a fulfilling life? At Ardent, we have both. Ardent employees are committed to solving our customers’ most difficult problems—and we are committed to the well-being, personal goals, and professional development of our employee. We are “All In.” We put forth our strongest effort possible to get the mission accomplished and we do it together. We respect the skills and experience you bring to the Ardent team. And we provide a rewarding environment to help you succeed. 

We offer highly competitive benefits, professional development opportunities, and an exceptional culture that embraces flexibility, innovation, collaboration, and career growth. A collective service mindset underpins our work, and a shared camaraderie to serve clients, colleagues and our communities set us apart. Our full commitment to being "All In" for our employees and our clients is not just our approach, it is our standard. If this sounds like the perfect fit for you, choose Ardent and make a difference with us. 

Ardent is seeking a Quality Assurance Lead to join our team.  

This is a Remote/Hybrid position located in the Washington, D.C. area.

Position Description:

Ardent is seeking a Quality Assurance Lead. We are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Quality Assurance Lead to take overall responsibility in the performance of software test plan development and execution. The Quality Assurance Lead will play a critical role in ensuring the quality of our software products through the development and implementation of efficient and effective testing strategies. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Enterprise IT environments and must achieve required certifications within six months after contract award.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Lead the development and execution of software test plans, ensuring appropriate testing coverage and requirements traceability.
• Develop and implement efficient and effective testing strategies, test conditions, and test scripts for projects.
• Define clear expectations for all testing tasks, including inputs and outputs.
• Implement test tools to support automation and performance testing.
• Develop and execute test plans, test cases, scripts, and create test data for Agile Software Development teams, including functional, integration, regression, data integrity, and stress testing.
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), ensuring successful outcomes of completed user stories and associated test criteria.
• Identify gaps and deficiencies in business requirements, technical specifications, designs, and testing documentation for completeness and testability.
• Track defects and report key metrics for proactive identification of areas for improvement.
• Coordinate the setup of test environments for all planned test execution activities.
• Manage the change processes, such as build promotions to User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Production environments.
• Facilitate effective interaction and coordination between government Project Leads.
• Identify resource constraints and potential schedule issues and risks.
• Implement testing and configuration management methodologies to support continuous integration.
• Manage integrated teams to support sprint planning.

Requirements: 

• Bachelor's degree with eight (8) or more years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT environment.
• 508 certification.
• Quality Assurance Institute (QAI) Certified Software Test Engineer (CSTE) certification.
• Proven experience developing and implementing efficient and effective testing strategies, test conditions, and test scripts for projects.
• Experience testing in Agile Software Development environments.
• Technical proficiency with SQL, including the ability to create queries to validate data integrity and other data constraints.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills.

Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be U.S. Citizens willing to undergo the government issued background investigation process.

Ardent is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.