Springforward, Inc. is seeking ongoing contractor technical support for an upcoming Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) for Enterprise System Testing (EST) within the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Special emphasis is placed on test automation in both the traditional and waterfall test approaches as well as more modern or agile delivery approaches. There is an immediate need* for a Test Engineer Analyst IV (SME) with the following minimum qualifications: . A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, and Engineering, Business or other related scientific or technical discipline. Eight years' of experience in QA/QC areas as Configuration Management, verification and validation, software testing and integration, software metrics and software quality assessment Also acceptable:. With a master's degree, five years' experience. With a PH.D. with three years' experience. With at least twelve years' specialized experience, a degree is not required Please apply with your resume highlighting those areas relevant to IRS EST testing and delivery. *Springforward is a federal government contractor. We are responding to a request for quote under the GSA Schedule IT 70. The Test Engineer Analyst IV (SME) is a key personnel position. Key personnel participate in the performance of the BPA and as such will require a resume and to sign a memorandum of understanding.