Mission Assurance/Quality Manager

Job Description

Senior IT Quality Assurance Manager | General Dynamics Information Technology

The Tone:
This is a full-time Pipeline role at General Dynamics Information Technology, located in Chantilly, VA. GDIT is a global technology and professional services company that delivers solutions and mission services across the U.S. government, defense, and intelligence communities. This role is crucial for an elite team working on a pioneering National Intelligence program, ensuring the highest standards of quality and security. You will play a critical role in addressing intricate security and operational challenges facing Intelligence and Homeland Security.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Pipeline
• Location: In-person, Chantilly, VA
• Pay: $147292–$199278 yearly
• Team: Embedded within the PMO at the IDIQ level, starting in Task Order 2
• Mission: Oversees risk reduction, process compliance, and product reliability to guarantee MVIs are successfully met for a vital National Intelligence program.
• Tech Stack: Java, Jira, GitHub, DB2 (or similar)

What You’ll Actually Do
• Quality Management Framework for the IDIQ: Design, maintain, and continuously improve the program’s quality management approach, including standards and templates, across all task orders.
• Process Definition and Compliance: Define and document key processes for requirements, design, coding, testing, release, and defect management, performing periodic compliance checks and driving corrective actions.
• Metrics, Monitoring, and Reporting: Define and maintain a consistent set of quality and mission assurance metrics for the program, consolidating and analyzing data to provide dashboards to stakeholders.
• Risk Management, Issues, and Root Cause Analysis: Partner with program management to identify and track quality-related risks, leading root cause analysis for significant defects and ensuring corrective actions are implemented.
• Integration of Quality into Agile/SAFe and DevSecOps: Collaborate with technical leads to embed quality practices into backlog refinement, testing strategies, and CI/CD pipelines, promoting test automation and shift-left quality.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor of Science or Arts degree or equivalent experience, with a focus on progressive software engineering and quality assurance leadership.
• Experience: 10+ years of progressive software engineering and quality assurance experience, with 5+ years leading teams and demonstrable experience architecting large-scale manual-to-automation transformations.
• Skills: Continual Improvement Process, IT Quality Assurance, Process Compliance, Process Improvements, deep hands-on expertise with modern automation tooling, CI/CD pipeline integration, and testing large-scale, multi-tier, service-oriented architectures.
• Bonus: Experience evaluating and implementing GenAI tooling for test script generation and data management, familiarity with modern automation frameworks like Playwright or Cypress, shift-left API testing strategies, and deep knowledge of DORA metrics.