Software Quality Engineer - TS/SCI with Polygraph

Are you ready to be part of an elite team at GDIT, working on a large-scale, pioneering National Intelligence program? This is an incredible opportunity to immerse yourself in an environment that fuses innovation, speed, and security to safeguard our Nation.

At GDIT, you'll thrive in a dynamic and collaborative setting, where your technical skills will be both challenged and expanded. This program offers the chance to engage with cutting-edge technologies and contemporary development practices in support of a vital mission. You'll play a critical role in addressing some of the most intricate security and operational challenges facing Intelligence and Homeland Security today.

What You'll Achieve

The Mission Assurance/Quality Manager plays a strategic, high-impact role at the IDIQ level, embedded within the PMO. This person will start off in Task Order 2 setting process, oversees risk reduction, process compliance, and product reliability to guarantee the MVIs are successfully met. They enforce quality standards, oversee verification testing, and process governess. In this role, you will:

• Design, maintain, and continuously improve the program's quality management approach across all task orders.
• Ensure the program's software-development lifecycle (SDLC), Agile/SAFe practices, and DevSecOps processes have clearly defined quality criteria at each stage.
• Align quality practices with contract requirements, customer standards, and GDIT policies.
• Serve as the ultimate technical authority for QA tooling and architecture.
• Define and document key processes for requirements, design, coding, testing, release, defect management, and configuration management.
• Perform periodic process compliance checks across task orders to verify teams are following agreed practices.
• Collect and analyze findings, drive corrective actions, and track closure of non-conformances or observations.
• Facilitate continual improvement cycles by capturing lessons learned and updating processes, checklists, and templates.
• Define and maintain a consistent set of quality and mission assurance metrics for the program.
• Consolidate and analyze quality data across task orders; identify trends, hotspots, and systemic issues.
• Provide regular quality dashboards and narratives to PMO, program leadership, and customer stakeholders.
• Partner with program management to identify and track quality-related risks and issues in the program risk/issue register.
• Lead or support root cause analysis (RCA) for significant defects, outages, or delivery failures and ensure corrective/preventive actions (CAPAs) are defined and implemented.
• Collaborate with the Lead Agilist, Solution Architect, and tech leads to embed quality practices into backlog refinement, Definitions of Ready/Done, testing strategies, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Promote and support test automation and “shift-left” quality practices to reduce defects and rework.
• Ensure quality checkpoints are integrated into program ceremonies.
• Define acceptance criteria and review standards for key program deliverables.
• Perform independent quality reviews of high-risk or high-visibility deliverables prior to submission to the customer.
• Participate in release readiness reviews, confirming that quality thresholds and exit criteria are met before deployment.
• Support program management as the primary voice on quality-related topics in customer reviews, audits, and status meetings.
• Prepare and present quality performance summaries, trends, and improvement plans to customer stakeholders.
• Coordinate responses to customer quality concerns, audits, or findings; track and report closure.
• Ensure teams adhere to program quality standards and reporting expectations.
• Perform or coordinate quality reviews of team deliverables and contributions.
• Support harmonization of quality approaches across task orders so the program operates with a common baseline and shared best practices.
• Provide training or orientation to new team members, Scrum teams, and task leads on program quality expectations, processes, and tools.
• Coach teams on best practices in software quality, test design, defect prevention, and documentation.
• Promote a culture where team members proactively raise quality issues and participate in improvement efforts.

Required Qualifications

• BS/BA or equivalent experience
• TS/SCI with Polygraph
• 10+ years of progressive software engineering and quality assurance experience, with a proven track record of moving from hands-on technical contributor to senior leadership
• 5+ years of experience leading teams with demonstrated ability to plan, organize, and implement significant strategic initiatives.
• Demonstrable experience architecting and executing a large-scale manual-to-automation transformation.
• Deep, hands-on expertise with modern automation tooling, CI/CD pipeline integration, and testing large-scale, multi-tier, service-oriented architectures.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Experience evaluating and implementing GenAI tooling to accelerate test script generation, optimize test data management, and improve overall QA efficiency.
• Familiarity with modern automation frameworks and shift-left API testing strategies.
• Experience with traditional enterprise stacks, including Java, Jira, GitHub, and DB2.
• Deep knowledge of DORA metrics and establishing engineering benchmarks.

The likely salary range for this position is $147,292 - $199,278.