Federal Grants Test and Evaluation Lead REMOTE

Federal Grants Test and Evaluation Lead (REMOTE)

This position supports Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for their Grants Management Modernization program (FEMA GMM). The FEMA GMM program represents a multiyear effort for IT Modernization and Transformation that will better enable citizens and first responders to apply for and be awarded Federal disaster and nondisaster grants.

Key Required Ss:

• Prior experience designing developing implementing and maintaining automation scripts for functional integration and endend scenario tests to create and deploy automated tests scripts and tools that streamline workflows reduce manual labor and improve overall efficiency for FEMA users.
• Prior experience working at FEMA highly desired
• Must be a US citizen and be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance

Position Description:

The Test and Evaluation Lead will be very client focused and proactive in identifying issues and risks for managing tracking and disbursing federal grants and will work with the client team as a trusted advisor. The candidate will design testing strategies coordinate test and report results to stakeholders. The Lead will perform manual and automated testing and will review and provide feedback for business requirements and user doentation. The Lead will work closely with the business yst and development teams to fully understand the FEMA business requirements and ensure delivered code meets or exceeds FEMA quality requirements.

This position requires strong technical ss strong knowledge of federal grants programs and the ability to collaborate across teams.

Basic S Requirements

• Bachelors degree in technology or a related field
• 5 8 years of experience creating test plans and scripts and endtoend test s
• 3 years of experience in designing and building business processes
• Solid experience with JIRA for test case management and defect tracking
• 5 years of experience with Agile software development practices and Agile/scrum odology
• Experience in federal grants management systems or largescale enterprise systems preferred

Required Ss

• Develop and execute comprehensive test plans test cases and test procedures for software applications and system interfaces to validate system functionalities ensuring endtoend operational efficiency
• Develop maintain and perform manual and automated testing activities (i.e. define scenarios develop detailed scripts/procedures map acceptance criteria to scripts doent test results)
• Define test strategies that align with federal system requirements and ensure compliance with federal/FEMA specific standards regulations and guidelines (e.g. OMB Circulars CFR)
• Ensure systems are compliant with accessibility requirements such as Section 508
• Lead the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) phase ensuring that grant administrators financial officers and endusers can effectively utilize the system
• Validate that system changes do not adversely impact FEMAs grant lifecycle from application to award and closeout
• Collaborate with business ysts and development teams to understand business requirements and specifications
• Execute software regression and new functionality test scripts to identify and doent defects areas for improvement and validate that acceptance criteria are met
• Have solid working experience with JIRA and utilize JIRA to track and manage testing activities defects and test case
• Have solid working experience with other test case management and defect tracking tools (e.g. Selenium)
• Contribute to test automation efforts by enhancing automated test suites
• Provide clear and concise status reports on testing progress and results
• Work closely with Product Managers and Scrum Masters to ess the impacts of functionality being delivered and trace work being executed in upcoming sprints/increments
• Apply business and functional knowledge including testing standards guidelines and testing odology to meet the teams overall test objectives
• Work closely with clients to frame and yze problems and apply logical structure and evidencebased reasoning to recommend solutions
• Develop or contribute solutions to a variety of problems of moderate scope and complexity
• Possess strong ytical and problemsolving ss with strong attention to detail
• Excellent communication ss both written and verbal
• Be able to work independently and mentor junior testers

Education:

Bachelors Degree with 58 years of experience

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Headquartered in Leesburg Virginia Zenius Corporation is a HUBZonecertified small business. Zenius specializes in providing Grants Management IT Modernization Acquisition Management and Financial Management services to Federal agencies. Zenius is selected by Inc 5000 as one of the fastestgrowing companies in the US 2024 and in the DC Metro Area award for two years in a row 2021 and 2020. Zenius is also listed by Financial Times as one of the fastestgrowing companies in the Americas in 2021. Zenius is an awardee of 2019 Best of Leesburg winner (Business Management Consultant category).

BENEFITS

Zenius Corporation is a very employeeoriented company. Join us now and help us grow!

We offer a competitive benefits package that includes paid holidays and paid time off medical insurance including health vision dental insurance 401K matching Flexible Spending Account and flexible schedules as per business needs. We also work with our employees on training and professional certification plans that benefit the employee.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:

Zenius Corporation provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age disability genetic information marital status amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws. Zenius complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including but not limited to hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.

Zenius Corporation expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harment based on race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age genetic information disability or veteran status.