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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # IDB Invest - IT QA Practice Consultant - **Company:** Inter-American Development Bank - **Location:** Washington, DC, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Experienced - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Testing (Software), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Data Analysis, Automation of Tests, Software Bug Management, Software as a Service, Data Migration, Requirements Traceability, Information Technology - **Published:** August 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=16bad1a22f9e8948 ## About the Role * Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field. * Experience: You have at least 2 years of relevant experience in quality assurance, software testing, quality engineering, or technology delivery, including implementing QA frameworks and governance models, coordinating testing activities across cross-functional teams and external vendors, executing functional, regression, performance, API, data migration, and security-related testing, supporting UAT and test automation, developing QA metrics and dashboards for project governance and leadership reporting, and promoting standardized QA practices through guidance and coaching of delivery teams. Professional certifications in software testing, QA, agile delivery, project management, risk, audit, or related disciplines are desirable. Relevant certifications may include ISTQB, PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, CISA, CRISC, ITIL, or equivalent. * Languages: Proficiency in English and one of the other Bank official languages (Spanish, French or Portuguese) is required. Requirements * Citizenship: No requirements * Consanguinity: You have no family members (up to the fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB, IDB Invest, or IDB Lab. ## Description We are looking for an experienced, strategic, and collaborative IT QA Practice consultant. As IT QA Practice consultant, you will establish and operationalize the enterprise QA governance practice by implementing quality standards, governance frameworks, reusable methodologies, and oversight mechanisms that support successful SaaS implementations and technology-enabled business initiatives. You will work in the Information Technology and Analytics (ITA) Department. This team is responsible for leading IDB Invest's technology modernization agenda by delivering enterprise technology solutions, strengthening digital capabilities, and supporting the organization's strategic business objectives. What you'll do Lead the design, mobilization, operationalization, and continuous improvement of the centralized QA governance practice. Assess QA maturity across SaaS initiatives and evaluate the existing QA Framework and operational manual, identifying execution gaps and recommending actionable improvements. Define the QA operating model, including roles, decision rights, governance forums, escalation paths, and engagement with project teams, vendors, system integrators, consultants, and business stakeholders. Develop and maintain enterprise QA standards, methods, templates, checklists, and reusable assets covering functional, non-functional, performance, security, compliance, data, integration/API, UAT, monitoring, and automated testing. Establish a portfolio-level QA roadmap aligned with the IT Roadmap, addressing priorities, shared assets, risks, dependencies, and sequencing across transformation initiatives. Define and enforce quality gates for test, integration, data migration, security, compliance, UAT, operational, production-support, and go-live readiness. Establish defect management, requirements traceability, test evidence, auditability, and reporting standards, and provide oversight of project QA strategies, plans, execution artifacts, and readiness packs. Coach project QA Engineers and consultants, promote adoption of centralized practices, and build shared accountability among IT, business stakeholders, and delivery partners. Define QA metrics, KPIs, dashboards, and leadership reporting to provide accurate, actionable, and evidence-based visibility into quality, risks, and release readiness. * Provide independent go-live quality assessments, residual-risk recommendations, and continuous improvement through lessons learned, recurring-issue analysis, and updates to QA standards and reusable assets. ## Related Videos - [Excellent Software Testing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/87-excellent-software-testing) - [Continuous testing - run automated tests for every change!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/190-continuous-testing-run-automated-tests-for-every-change) - [Data Science in Retail](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/586-data-science-in-retail) - [Swapping a Data Warehouse at Runtime: Zero-Downtime Migration Without Changing a Single Client](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100311-swapping-a-data-warehouse-at-runtime-zero-downtime-migration-without-changing-a-single-client) - [Back to the Roots: Testing in the Age of AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100021-back-to-the-roots-testing-in-the-age-of-ai) - [Data Science on Software Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/162-data-science-on-software-data) ## Related Articles - [The 8 Best Code Testing Tools](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/402-the-8-best-code-testing-tools) - [Should senior developers refuse interview coding challenges?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/29-should-senior-developers-refuse-interview-coding-challenges) - [System change: restart as developer?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/39-system-change-restart-as-developer) - [Top-Paying Tech Jobs (with Salaries)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/372-top-paying-tech-jobs-with-salaries) - [The 12 Best Jobs for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/401-the-12-best-jobs-for-software-engineers) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market)