QA and Validation Lead

Position summary

Seeking a QA and Validation Lead to manage quality assurance, governance validation, compliance testing, AI assurance, accessibility, and release readiness.

Responsibilities

• Develop test strategies, plans, traceability matrices, quality gates, and release-readiness reports.
• Lead functional, integration, regression, API, performance, recovery, and UAT testing.
• Validate Azure governance, configuration, policy, logging, audit, and infrastructure-as-code controls.
• Support NIST, CUI, data-residency, encryption, records, and compliance testing.
• Test Entra ID roles, API authorization, ACL synchronization, and search security trimming.
• Validate OCR, classification, extraction, confidence, search relevance, RAG grounding, and citations.
• Perform prompt-injection, AI regression, hallucination, and unauthorized-exposure testing.
• Conduct Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 AA testing.
• Manage defects, remediation verification, evidence collection, and release recommendations.

Required skills

• Five or more years in QA, compliance testing, or system validation
• Azure DevOps Test Plans, Postman, Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or equivalent
• Functional, integration, regression, API, performance, recovery, and UAT testing
• Azure governance, policy, logging, audit, and configuration validation
• NIST SP 800-53, FedRAMP concepts, CUI, data residency, encryption, and records-control testing
• Entra ID role, API authorization, ACL, and security-trimming validation
• OCR, document AI, Azure AI Search, RAG, and citation testing
• Prompt-injection, hallucination, regression, and unauthorized-exposure testing
• Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 AA

Key deliverables

• Quality Assurance and Test Plan
• Requirements traceability matrix
• Test cases and automated test suites
• Compliance and accessibility evidence
• Defect, remediation, and release-readiness reports

Preferred qualifications

• Government or regulated-environment testing experience
• Document AI, search, RAG, or generative AI validation experience
• ISTQB, CISA, Security+, accessibility, or quality-management certification

Role boundary: The Solution Architect owns cloud-security and network architecture. The QA and Validation Lead independently validates the implemented controls.

Pay: $90,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person