• Lead the design and execution of comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and test frameworks to ensure software quality across enterprise systems and data-driven applications. • Partner with business analysts, product owners, and developers to ensure requirements are testable, define acceptance criteria, and maintain end-to-end traceability using Azure DevOps. • Lead manual and automated testing activities, ensuring adequate test coverage across functional, integration, system, regression, and user acceptance testing. • Oversee defect lifecycle management using Azure DevOps, ensuring accurate documentation, prioritization, root-cause analysis, and resolution verification. • Design, implement, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks and regression suites to improve testing efficiency and support continuous integration pipelines. • Lead Section 508 and accessibility compliance testing using tools such as ANDI, Color Contrast Checker, CommonLook, and similar evaluation tools to ensure applications meet federal accessibility requirements. • Plan and oversee performance, load, and integration testing to validate system scalability, stability, and reliability. • Provide quality status reporting, risk assessments, and release readiness recommendations to project leadership and stakeholders. • Serve as a quality advocate within Agile/Scrum teams, participating in sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. • Mentor mid-level and junior QA staff, establish QA best practices, and support continuous improvement of testing processes and standards. • Identify and implement improvements to QA methodologies, automation practices, and toolchains. • Works under minimal supervision with minor guidance from senior personnel.