Why AIS?
When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.
Employee Ownership : Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.
Continuous Learning : Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.
Inclusive Culture : A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.
Mission-Driven Work : Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.
What are we looking for?
At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.
What you will be doing?
This position is contingent upon contract award. We are currently pursuing a proposal and are seeking qualified candidates to include in our submission and identify candidates for future hiring needs on the program once awarded.
At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Lead QA Engineer.
Core Knowledge & Skills: Develops strategic test plans, risk-based testing, advanced automation, compliance audits, and innovative testing solutions.
Work & Complexity: Leads complex projects, creates test strategies, performs risk assessments, and mentors team members.
Quality & Independence: Optimizes processes, defines quality metrics, ensures stakeholder satisfaction, and makes high-level decisions.
Teamwork & Communication: Leads and mentors teams, aligns efforts with organizational goals, manages performance, and collaborates with stakeholders.
Consulting & Engagement: Provides strategic guidance, consults on automation strategies, advises on metrics, and communicates with senior stakeholders.
As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Technical QA and Automation Lead.
Project Summary
The Technical QA and Automation Lead leads quality and technical acceptance for a large-scale enterprise cloud migration program, moving a complex application portfolio from on-premises data centers to Azure and AWS. The role establishes the program's test strategy, automation framework, and quality gates, and guides the QA engineers in the migration teams. The role is hands-on, building the initial automation framework rather than serving solely as an administrative test manager. The role is remote.
Key Responsibilities
Defines the enterprise test strategy, quality gates, and technical acceptance criteria for migrated applications.
Designs and establishes the initial automation framework and reusable test utilities used across the migration teams.
Guides and coaches the Cloud Migration Test Automation Engineers, reviewing their test plans, results, and acceptance evidence and assessing their readiness.
Oversees requirements traceability, test cases, and acceptance evidence in the program's test management tools, including Jama Connect where applicable.
Integrates automated testing and reporting into CI/CD pipelines to support repeatable execution.
Oversees technical validation of migrated applications, including Azure and AWS configuration, connectivity, identity, APIs, databases, performance, and reliability.
Reviews technical acceptance packages and provides Go/No-Go recommendations.
Reports quality metrics, risks, and trends to program leadership.
Required For This Opportunity
US Citizen
Minimum eight years of quality engineering or software testing experience, including automation…