Master Scheduler

Master Scheduler

Summary:

• Job Title: Master Scheduler
• Level: 8+ years in software testing, test management, program scheduling, or systems integration; 5+ years with Tricentis Tosca and/or qTest.
• Openings: To be confirmed.
• Security Clearance: Active clearance is not required to be considered. Candidates must be able to obtain an interim clearance; candidates with lapsed clearances are acceptable. U.S. citizenship required.
• Work Type: Remote, with periodic meetings in Quantico, VA or Annapolis, MD as required.
• Job Type: Full-time.
• Program Name: DCSA programs; portfolio-wide integrated master scheduling and DevSecOps orchestration, including NBIS and NI2 applications.
• Agency name: Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA).
• Start Date: To be confirmed.

BizFirst is assisting our client with recruiting a Master Scheduler to develop, integrate, and maintain schedules across the full Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) program portfolio. This role coordinates development, testing, security, deployment, and release activities across all phases of the DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline, integrating program and tool-level schedules into the Program Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).

Our client is a technology integrator that supports government customers with IT modernization, performance engineering, and cybersecurity. Its engineering teams collaborate on complex technical programs in a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and professional development.

What will you do

The Master Scheduler is a technical leader responsible for developing, integrating, and maintaining end-to-end schedules across the portfolio and all major DevSecOps tools, including Tricentis Tosca, qTest, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab, SonarQube, and more, while embedding these schedules into the Program Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) for DCSA programs.

This role is hands-on, bridging tool-level automation and orchestration with program-level schedule management, critical path analysis, and milestone tracking.

This position works closely with senior technical and program leaders, including Senior Tricentis Test Leads, DevSecOps Program Managers, Release Managers, and Agile teams, to ensure development, testing, security, deployment, and release activities are properly sequenced, resourced, and measurable.

The role is primarily remote, with periodic meetings in Quantico, VA or Annapolis, MD as required.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Portfolio-Wide Integrated Master Schedule Management

• Build, update, and analyze Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) that reflect all DevSecOps activities, dependencies, and critical paths.
• Track progress against schedules, plans, and milestones; identify and resolve schedule risks and bottlenecks.
• Map contractual delivery dates and milestones directly to CI/CD pipeline stages for NBIS and NI2 applications.
• Integrate test activities across functional, integration, regression, automated, performance, security, and user acceptance testing.
• Track and optimize the automated flow of work through Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and other orchestration tools.
• Factor in automated security gate latency (SAST, DAST, container scanning) and remediation rates into schedule critical paths.
• Monitor system capacity, tool dependencies, and development team throughput to predict and prevent bottlenecks in cloud environments.

DevSecOps Tool and Schedule Integration

• Develop and maintain schedules for automated testing, code integration, security scanning, deployment, and release gates across all DevSecOps tools.
• Integrate Tricentis platform scheduling (Tosca, qTest, EEG/DEX, NeoLoad, LiveCompare) with Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab, SonarQube, and other orchestration tools.
• Map tool-level schedules to program-level IMS, ensuring traceability and alignment.
• Serve as scheduling SME for Tricentis Tosca and qTest, coordinating test schedules, execution windows, and automation events.
• Establish traceability between scheduled test activities and qTest releases, test cycles, and execution results.
• Incorporate Tosca automation development, maintenance, and execution into the integrated schedule.
• Identify scheduling conflicts, automation capacity constraints, environment dependencies, and test execution bottlenecks.

Release and Readiness Gate Management

• Develop and maintain schedules for test entry/exit criteria, release gates, and production readiness milestones.
• Track readiness for each test phase and release gate, providing advance notification of schedule risks and critical-path impacts.
• Maintain a forward-looking test calendar covering releases, test cycles, automation execution, and major milestones.

Schedule Analysis & Reporting

• Conduct critical path analysis, schedule risk assessments for DevSecOps activities.
• Provide schedule-based insights for program reviews, milestone briefings, and executive reporting.
• Analyze schedule performance and identify trends that could affect contractual or program milestones.
• Maintain and analyze the critical path and near-critical path for testing and release activities.
• Conduct schedule impact assessments for scope changes, resource changes, technical delays, environment outages, defects, or changes in release dates.
• Identify schedule risks and develop mitigation and recovery options in coordination with technical and program leadership.
• Support schedule risk assessments and, where applicable, quantitative schedule risk analysis.
• Identify opportunities to optimize test sequencing, resource utilization, automation execution, and release timing.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Liaise among geographically distributed Senior Tricentis Test Leads, Tosca Automation Engineers, qTest Administrators, DevSecOps Engineers, Release Managers, and Agile teams.
• Lead integrated test scheduling meetings, obtain schedule status, and facilitate dependency resolution.
• Escalate schedule issues requiring program-level decisions.

Process and Continuous Improvement

• Develop standardized processes for integrated test scheduling, status collection, schedule updates, and reporting.
• Improve integration between Agile sprint planning and program-level IMS.
• Identify opportunities to enhance the relationship between qTest, Tosca, DevSecOps, and scheduling data.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Business, Project Management, or related discipline.
• 8+ years in software testing, test management, program scheduling, or systems integration.
• 5+ years with Tricentis Tosca and/or qTest in enterprise test management and automation environments.
• Hands-on experience with Tricentis Tosca, qTest, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab, SonarQube, and other DevSecOps tools.
• Experience developing and maintaining complex IMS in federal or regulated environments.
• Advanced proficiency with scheduling software (Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, etc.).
• Experience in government, defense, federal, or highly regulated environments.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and coordinate across multiple teams.
• Candidates must be able to obtain an interim clearance; active clearance is not required to be considered, and candidates with lapsed clearances are acceptable.

Preferred Qualifications

• Tricentis certifications (Tosca, qTest, EEG/DEX, NeoLoad, LiveCompare).
• Experience with schedule quality assessments, Earned Value Management (EVM), DCMA-style schedule analysis, and schedule risk analysis.
• PMP, PMI-SP, or equivalent certification.
• Experience supporting large-scale federal IT modernization, enterprise systems, or mission-critical applications.