# Quality Assurance (QA) Manager

**Company**: General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT)
**Location**: Gaithersburg, MD
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $110,500 - $149,500
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is seeking candidates for a Quality Assurance (QA) Manager position on a new contract supporting the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and its critical mission needs.

As a Quality Assurance Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing application stability, reliability, and testing excellence while managing both QA engineers. This role combines senior-level leadership, technical oversight, team management, and direct engagement with customers to support high-quality delivery across the QA functions.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead, manage and mentor QA engineers and automation testers, providing clear direction, coaching, and performance feedback.

- Ensure QA practices and testing outputs adhere to FDA security, governance, and data-protection requirements, including structured review workflows and regulatory processes.

- Develop and maintain comprehensive test plans, RTMs, scenario-based testing scripts, validation packages, and release readiness criteria for multiple FDA workstreams.

- Design and implement test automation strategy and manage the implementation of automation test coverage.

- Validate that releases meet regulatory criteria for accuracy, traceability, controlled workflows, and readiness for UAT and production deployment.

- Partner with FDA leads, program managers, and scientific reviewers to ensure testing practices support FDA mission outcomes.

- Oversee functional, regression, end-to-end (E2E), performance, and UAT testing cycles; ensure published test results meet program quality standards.

- Coordinate parallel testing for DME, O&M, Facilities, Microbiology, and AI-enabled workflows across sequential and parallel development tracks.

- Manage defect triage, root-cause analysis, prioritization, remediation tracking, and regression verification across all FDA applications.

- Provide defect visibility to PMO, technical leads, and government stakeholders; ensure risks and blockers are escalated promptly.

- Deliver clear QA status reporting, quality dashboards, defect metrics, and readiness assessments to FDA stakeholders, PMO leadership, and cross-functional teams.

- Champion continuous improvement of testing standards, processes, and documentation across FDA workstreams.

**Required Qualifications and Experience**

- Bachelors and 10+ years of relevant experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience in lieu of degree)

- 5+ years of experience in the development and execution of test plans and test scripts for Web-based applications

- 3+ years' experience with Atlassian software such as JIRA and Confluence

- People management experience required

- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust which requires 3 out of the 5 years of US residency

**Benefits**

- Medical plan options

- Dental plan options

- Vision plan

- 401(k) plan with company match

- Paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave

- Short and long-term disability benefits

- Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

## Skills

### Required
- Defect Triage
- People Management
- Test Automation
- Test Plan Design
- Atlassian software (JIRA and Confluence)

### Nice to have
- FDA experience
- Acceptance Test Driven Development (Gherkin)
- Behavior Driven Development
- Agile / Scrum

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