IV&V Tester

Overview

LMI is seeking an Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) tester with strong communication skills and attention to detail to join a high performing team supporting a government civilian client. This position may be remote.

Responsibilities

The ideal IV&V tester will have experience reviewing Program Increment (PI) Planning and sprint documents and working with the System Integrator (SI) software developers to create software tests and test plans. The candidate will have strong communication skills, and a passion for detail.

• Work with a team of LMI IV&V testers and domain experts to design and develop tests for Integrated Logistics Management System modules.
• Continually review software requirements to gain an understanding of the software's intended functionality to create test scenarios and test cases to verify that the software meets requirements.
• Verify software usability, including testing of the software's user interface, navigation, and overall ease of use.
• Participate in meetings with the SI development team, product owners, and other stakeholders, where you provide feedback on the software's functionality and usability and ensure the testing process is aligned with the needs of the stakeholders.
• Maintain contact with other testers on the team, coordinating the testing activities, sharing information, and resolving any issues that arise.
• Actively participate in agile software development activities, including sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Perform 'soft evaluation' by working with the client to agree on metrics and validation processes.
• Perform 'hard evaluation' by developing scenarios, conditions, edge cases and running tests across vendors to assess deltas between advertised and actual capabilities.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Advanced degree with 8 years of experience, or Bachelor's with 10 years of experience, or 14 years of experience with no degree required.
• Knowledge and experience of software testing processes
• Proven ability to extrapolate tests from business requirements, then specify, design, write, and execute test cases based upon those requirements
• Experience verifying software usability, including the software's user interface, navigation, and overall ease of use
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written, and the ability to work tactfully with a team of subject matter experts and software developers
• Presentation skills to regularly present test results
• Strong attention to detail
• Superior written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to compose, write, and edit a variety of general business correspondence, management reports, technical presentations, and training material
• Team player and ability to interact professionally with customers and team members to solve problems

Desired Qualifications

• Experience practicing Agile development methodologies
• Experience with modern DevSecOps development principles and practices
• Using formal ticketing applications such as Jira
• Experience with release planning and tracking and Agile using test driven development
• Experience working in a consultant/client environment.
• Subject Matter working knowledge of any of the disciplines listed below:
  • Federal Grants
  • Procurement and Contracting
    • Invoicing
  • Warehouse Management

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