Job Description Staff augmentation contractor will participate and manage all testing efforts for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) 2000, Real-time Education and Counseling Network (RECN), acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) Regional Information Evaluation System (ARIES) (HRAR) Implementation Project. The effort supports clients with HIV/AIDS. The HRAR Implementation Project combines and augments the existing functionality of HIV2000, RECN, and ARIES. Responsibilities: As a member of the Quality Assurance Team, follows directions from the Manager of the Product Development & Deliver Team. Leads the development of quality assurance (QA) test project strategies, methodologies, and standard processes for all QA domains by analyzing business and technology requirements to ensure testability, traceability and determining testing scope and approach. Develops quality assurance (QA) Test plan for project by identifying project scope, work plans, schedules, milestones, and critical paths, and ensuring proper staffing. Oversees and addresses critical issues, dependencies, and risks related to testing. Reviews testing scope and approach, and partners with cross-functional IT and business stakeholders to review and approve the overall testing approach. Manages/Develops test scenarios and execution of test cases across all testing phases (e.g., SIT, Performance, UAT, Automation, Production, Validation). Ensures quality metrics are tracked across testing phases (e.g., SIT, Performance, UAT, Automation, Production, Validation). Manages the review and validation of testable business processes, test data, and test environment requirements. Develops guidelines and best practices to ensure test plans and timelines are aligned with project/program milestones. Performs related work as assigned. Writes and maintains test automation using UFT, Lean FT. Utilizes agency’s testing tools and standards and follows usage guidelines and procedures for those tools. Drive greater automation test coverage throughout the product including GUI, API layers, services and database driven scripts. Support defining Performance Testing Strategy. Identifies metrics for monitoring increased performance and scalability. Provides guidance for performance test initiatives that take a true end-to-end focus on ensuring client side, server tiers, database and data integration jobs are performing as expected. Troubleshoots performance, load, and stress testing through analysis of system design/coding. Provides training/mentoring/educating of team members Performs related work as assigned. Location: Austin, Other locations in TX