Software Quality Engineer - TS/SCI with Polygraph
General Dynamics Information Technology28 days ago
Chantilly, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$147k - $199k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, maintain, and continuously improve the program-wide quality management framework across task orders.
- Define and document quality processes for requirements, design, coding, testing, release, defect management, and configuration management.
- Perform process compliance checks, analyze findings, drive corrective actions, and track closure of non-conformances.
- Define quality metrics, consolidate data across task orders, identify trends, and provide dashboards and reports to leadership and customers.
- Lead or support root cause analysis for significant defects, outages, and delivery failures, and monitor corrective and preventive actions.
- Integrate quality practices into Agile/SAFe ceremonies, DevSecOps workflows, testing strategies, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Promote test automation, shift-left quality, automated quality gates, static code analysis, and security scans.
- Review high-risk deliverables and participate in release-readiness reviews to confirm quality thresholds and exit criteria.
- Represent quality and mission assurance in customer reviews, audits, and status meetings.
- Harmonize quality practices across task orders and train or coach teams on software quality, test design, defect prevention, and documentation.
Requirements
- BS/BA or equivalent experience.
- Current TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance and U.S. citizenship.
- 10+ years of progressive software engineering and quality assurance experience, including progression from hands-on technical contribution to senior leadership.
- 5+ years of experience leading teams and implementing significant strategic initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience architecting and executing a large-scale manual-to-automation transformation, including technical framework design, ROI analysis, and change management.
- Deep hands-on expertise with modern automation tooling, CI/CD pipeline integration, and testing large-scale, multi-tier, service-oriented architectures.
- Preferred experience evaluating GenAI tooling for test script generation, synthetic PHI/PII test data, and QA efficiency improvements.
- Familiarity with Playwright, Cypress, shift-left API testing, Java, Jira, GitHub, DB2 or similar enterprise stacks, and DORA metrics.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, and 401(k) plan options with company match.
- Flexible work weeks where possible and paid vacation, sick, personal, holiday, parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
- Short- and long-term disability, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.
- Full-time schedule of 40 hours per week with no travel required.
- Onsite position in Chantilly, Virginia.
- Identity verification using biometrics and artificial intelligence may be required during hiring and virtual interviews.
About General Dynamics Information Technology
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) delivers enterprise IT, systems integration, cybersecurity, cloud, and software engineering services to U.S. federal agencies, including defense and intelligence organizations. It provides contract-based professional and managed services ranging from network operations and unified communications to training and simulation. GDIT is a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and is headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia.