Senior Testing Consultant

This is a remote position.

• Contractor’s Key Person shall:
  
•          Review and analyze project requirements, user stories, process flows, and acceptance criteria for clarity, completeness, and testability.
  
•          Maintain and update the requirements traceability matrix (RTM).
  
•          Create, update, and maintain comprehensive test cases, test scenarios, and test suites.
  
•          Develop and update test plans that outline scope, approach, schedule, resources, and risks.
  
•          Execute manual UAT test cases, log test results, and ensure proper validation of functional and non-functional requirements.
  
•          Participate in test case review sessions; identify candidates for automated testing as needed.
  
•          Conduct regression testing to validate system stability and verify fixes.
  
•          Support and sometimes lead bug hunts, exploratory testing, and ad hoc validation activities.
  
•          Log defects with clear reproduction steps, evidence, and expected behavior; retest defects and confirm resolution.
  
•          Conduct integration testing across systems, services, and interfaces.
  
•          Perform or support load, performance, security, integration and accessibility testing activities.
  
•          Prepare, request, or curate test data required for UAT.
  
•          Validate UAT readiness (requirements, data, environments, tools).
  
•          Participate in defect triage discussions; assist in determining priority, severity, and business impact.
  
•          Provide UAT guidance and support to business SMEs/testers during testing cycles and contribute to training, documentation, and testing best practices.
  
•          Develop and maintain testing best practices, training materials, templates, and documentation.
  
•          Provide daily/weekly test metrics, summaries, and status reports to stakeholders.
  
•          Participate fully in Scrum ceremonies (if applicable) including planning, refinement, standups, demos, and retrospectives.
  
•          Contribute to release readiness assessments and go/no go recommendations.
  
•          Apply knowledge of test automation concepts to identify automation candidates, support automation coverage planning, and collaborate with automation engineers on automated regression and smoke testing as needed.
  
•          Continuously identify opportunities for improving testing processes, tools, documentation, and collaboration.
  
•          Define testing approach, entry/exit criteria, quality gates, and release-level test strategy.
  
•          Escalate quality risks, blockers, and unresolved defects with clear recommendations.
  
•          Assess test coverage and identify gaps across requirements, integrations, workflows, data, roles, and edge cases.
  
   Recommend testing scope adjustments based on project risk, timeline, and release objectives.
  
•          Monitor defect trends, aging defects, recurring issues, and root causes to support quality improvement.
  
•          Identify and escalate environment issues that may impact test execution or release timelines.
  
  Define test data needs, validate data quality, and coordinate data refreshes, masking, or setup as needed.
  
•          Support sprint, release, and project planning by providing QA/UAT estimates and testing assumptions.
  
•          Participate in/lead release readiness discussions.
  

•          Strong understanding of UAT processes, SDLC, and agile methodologies.
  
•          Experience designing and executing complex test scenarios.
  
•          Skill in using test management and defect tracking tools (Azure DevOps, Jira, etc.).
  
•          Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
  
•          Strong communication skills for working with both technical and non-technical audiences.
  
•          Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently with minimal direction.
  
•          Understanding of accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG), security testing fundamentals, and performance considerations.
  
•          Ability to identify risks and propose mitigation strategies.
  
•          Collaborative mindset and strong interpersonal skills.
  
•          Demonstrated experience leading QA/UAT activities for complex, cross-functional projects.
  
•          Experience creating test strategies, test plans, RTMs, test cases, defect reports, test summaries, and release readiness documentation.
  
•          Ability to influence stakeholders, challenge unclear requirements, and advocate for quality
  
•          Strong understanding of defect lifecycle, test coverage analysis, risk-based testing, and release quality criteria.
  
•          Ability to work across business, technical, product, vendor, and project management teams.
  

•        Experience in a government or regulated environment.
  
•         Familiarity with test automation concepts (Selenium, Playwright, Robot Framework, etc.).
  
•        Experience preparing or managing test data.
  
•         Background in business analysis or QA beyond UAT.