• supports the Case Management Modernization (CMM) Program for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AO) by overseeing all aspects of quality assurance (QA), testing governance, and compliance verification across Agile and DevSecOps teams. • ensures that CMM application components meet stringent federal standards for quality, performance, and security. • establishes consistent quality frameworks, enforces traceability, and validates adherence to program-level policies, regulations, and modernization objectives. • Define and maintain test management standards, methodologies, and metrics aligned with Agile and SAFe delivery models. • Oversee functional, integration, regression, performance, and security testing activities across all CMM applications. • Ensure compliance with federal standards including Section 508 accessibility, FedRAMP security, and NIST controls. • Coordinate with Product Owners, Developers, and Automation Test Engineers to validate acceptance criteria and test coverage. • Establish and maintain traceability matrices linking requirements to test cases, defects, and validation artifacts. • Support independent verification and validation (IV&V) processes and compliance audits. • Review and approve test plans, results, and release readiness documents prior to production deployment. • Define and track QA metrics (defect density, test pass rates, mean time to resolution) to drive continuous improvement. • Promote shift-left testing, early defect detection, and alignment of QA practices with DevSecOps pipelines. • Provide oversight for quality-related documentation, ensuring audit readiness and adherence to SOW deliverables.