Quality Assurance Specialist

Illuminate seeks an exceptionally qualified Quality Assurance Specialist/Manager to join a mission-focused team that maintains applications, services, microservices, Platform as a Service (PaaS), and support services. The effort requires the maintenance and enhancement of an application and underlying services/microservices’ application’s current capability while identifying future capability needs and eliminating overlaps. The team will continuously improve sustainment and development in order to reinvest resources to provide new capabilities and improve the effectiveness, quality, and robustness of the underlying technology. Our applications are focused on intelligence analysis and collection management directly supporting intelligence analysts and operators across the intelligence community and Combatant Commands. The Quality Assurance Specialist will advise on work concerned with assuring the quality of the acquired, developed, delivered, and maintained products. The work of this series involves: (1) the development of plans and programs for achieving and maintaining product quality throughout the item's life cycle; (2) monitoring operations to prevent the production of defects and to verify adherence to quality plans and requirements; and (3) analysis and investigation of adverse quality trends or conditions and initiation of corrective action. The duties of these positions require analytical ability combined with knowledge and application of assurance principles and techniques, and knowledge of pertinent product characteristics and the associated manufacturing processes and techniques.

Illuminate provides government agencies, commercial enterprises, and network operators with the data, services, and technology that helps them protect the information that surrounds us all and extract real value from it. We combine decades of intelligence and telecommunications expertise with innovative collection and analysis tools to deliver timely, actionable insight that our customers use to make fast, informed decisions.

• Organizes and maintains all quality assurance and independent verification and validation (IV&V) documentation required
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with recognized standards and practices
• Participates in developing and delivering training as requested by the government to support applications
• Reviews all documentation for completeness, accuracy, and correctness personnel as a witness to testing requirements; presents IV&V results and troubleshoots technical problems; makes recommendations to improve overall quality
• Certifies that deliverables have met all quality requirements
• Familiar with DevSecOps and testing toolsets

• Clearance: Top Secret//SCI
• Polygraph: current Counterintelligence (CI) polygraph
• Experience with multiple configuration management tools and resources
• Experience working on a development team under DoD/DIA Risk Management Framework
• Understanding of Oracle and/or CENTOS architecture builds
• Required Education and Experience
  
  • High School Diploma/ GED 12
  • Associates Degree 10
  • Bachelors’ Degree 8
  • Masters’ Degree 6
  • PhD 4

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, information technology, or information management, or seven years of comparable work experience.
• Desired skills include up to seven or more years of quality assurance experience with ISO 9001:2015, CMMI-L3, and agile development.
• Prefer candidates who have experience in the Intelligence Community.
• Prospective candidates should have strong risk management skills, excellent communication, teamwork, leadership, and conflict management skills.

Equal employment opportunity employer:
All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

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Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, as a condition of employment, Illuminate requires all employees to be fully vaccinated. An employee is considered fully vaccinated two weeks after receiving the second dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine or one week after receiving a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine. All newly hired employees will be required to provide proof of vaccination on their first day of employment.