QA Manager/Release Manager

Empower AI is AI for government. Empower AI gives federal agency leaders the tools to elevate the potential of their workforce with a direct path for meaningful transformation. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Empower AI leverages three decades of experience solving complex challenges in Health, Defense, and Civilian missions. Our proven Empower AI Platform® provides a practical, sustainable path for clients to achieve transformation that is true to who they are, what they do, how they work, with the resources they have. The result is a government workforce that is exponentially more creative and productive. For more information, visit www.Empower.ai.

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ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS BY LEVEL:

• Manages system requirements and derived requirements to ensure the delivery of production systems that are compatible with the defined system architecture(s)
• Coordinates the resolution of action items from Configuration Control Board (CCB) meetings, design reviews, program reviews, and test reviews that require cross-discipline coordination
• Prepares documentation of methods and procedures
• Implements tests and documents test data
• Participates in interface definition, design, and changes to the configuration between affected groups and individuals throughout the lifecycle
• Interacts with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues and conflicts
• Guides system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans
• Prepares program and test specifications
• Prepares test procedures and data
• Selects performance levels of components and subsystems
• Devises appropriate tests to use in evaluating, debugging, and checking of equipment and systems for accurate and dependable conformance to specifications
• Supervises revisions and changes
• Assists with implementation of combined hardware/software systems
• Develops procedures for accomplishing the deployment of new and modified web or application capability.
• Develop common strategies for release governance across multiple departments.
• Establish consistent release management processes.
• Facilitate cross-department coordination of release management functions.
• Define common mechanisms for rollback and standards for capturing release-related performance indicators.
• Provide QA/QC and metrics management activities as directed, such as developing quality control methodologies to ensure compliance with quality assurance standards and developing quality metrics and scoring parameters.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent related experience
• ITIL v4
• IAT Level II Certification 

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED BY LEVEL:

• III: 4 – 9 Years 

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

This position requires the ability to perform the below essential functions:

• Sitting for long periods
• Standing for long periods
• Ambulate throughout an office
• Ambulate between several buildings
• Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl as required
• Repeatedly lift and carry weight up to 25 pounds
• Travel by land or air transportation 15 %

It is the policy of Empower AI to provide equal opportunity in recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting individuals in all job categories without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected class or category as may be defined by federal, state, or local laws or regulations. In addition, we affirm that all compensation, benefits, company-sponsored training, educational assistance, social, and recreational programs are administered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity. It is our firm intent to support equal employment opportunity and affirmative action in keeping with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.  Empower AI is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.