QA Lead

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⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

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🔧 QA Engineer (Quality Assurance)

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Cormac

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

🏗️ Construction

🚗 Transport

🏛️ Government

Construction • Transport • Government

Cormac is a leading UK civil engineering contractor and local authority-owned business headquartered in Cornwall. It delivers the Cornwall Council Term Service Contract and provides a wide range of specialist highways, environmental and landscape, surfacing, marine/coastal and waterways, aggregates and asphalt, and consultancy and design services. Cormac undertakes local authority and private sector projects (sea defences, highway improvements, promenades, habitat creation, and more), emphasizes sustainability and social value, runs multiple apprenticeship programmes, and partners with public bodies such as the Environment Agency.

📋 Description

• Own the overall quality of the program by establishing quality standards and providing oversight across Agile teams • Lead and mentor QA data and automation engineers • Provide day-to-day oversight for QA engineers across Cormac and partner organizations • Develop and implement test strategies and plans aligned with Program Increment objectives • Drive AI-assisted quality engineering and intelligent test automation adoption • Evaluate AI-enabled testing solutions to improve coverage, regression testing, root cause analysis, and predictive quality insights • Improve QA processes, automation, resource utilization, delivery predictability, and team efficiency • Assess end-to-end architecture, business processes, and system dependencies for downstream impacts • Collaborate with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Release Train Engineers to ensure quality and Definition of Done compliance • Oversee automated and manual testing, including functional, regression, performance, load, security, integration, API, and UAT testing • Manage defect identification, reproduction, triage, documentation, resolution, and root cause analysis • Track, measure, and report quality metrics including defect density, test coverage, pass/fail rates, and escaped defects • Create and maintain reusable automation scripts and evolve frameworks such as Page Object Model and BDD/Cucumber with CI/CD integration • Enforce CMMI Maturity Level 3 standards and Standard Operating Procedures • Conduct independent quality reviews of contractual deliverables, test artifacts, Section 508 accessibility checks, and traceability matrices before government sign-off • Identify and escalate quality risks affecting Program Increment or release commitments and propose mitigation strategies

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of total software quality engineering experience • 3+ years in a Lead capacity driving functional, API, regression, performance, load, and security testing • Hands-on experience with GitHub, Jenkins, Selenium Grid, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines • Experience with AWS services, including Amazon CloudWatch • Ability to independently design and develop complex SQL queries for data validation, mappings, business rules, ETL processes, and reports • Experience leading quality engineering across multiple Agile sprint teams and UI, ETL/data pipeline, reporting, dashboard, data extract, API, accessibility, security, performance/load, and integration testing • Hands-on experience with SQL, Java, Python, Selenium, Cucumber, Selenium Grid, Postman, DBeaver, Databricks, Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, AWS CloudWatch, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio Code, Microsoft Excel, Beyond Compare, XML, and CI/CD pipelines • Experience enforcing QA processes within a CMMI Level 3 or higher appraised organization • Section 508 compliance testing experience • Strong experience reproducing and documenting defects, tracking quality metrics, and conducting root cause analyses • Ability to obtain and maintain a Moderate Risk Public Trust clearance • Must currently reside in and be a citizen of the United States • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience • Desired certifications include CSQA, ISTQB Advanced Test Manager / Test Automation Engineer, or CISA • Desired Agile credentials include SAFe Agilist, SAFe Practitioner, or Certified ScrumMaster • Ideal candidate has 8+ years of software testing experience and 3+ years within CMS federal healthcare contracts

🏖️ Benefits

• Supportive, collaborative, and welcoming environment • Diverse workforce • Equal employment opportunity