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Quality Analyst Principal

General Dynamics Information Technology

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Compensation
$108–144K/yr
Location
Falls Church, VA
Work Authorization
Citizenship required

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

TS/SCI clearance, required

Job overview

The Principal Quality Analyst supports the Department of War Chief Information Officer for Special Access Programs by leading quality control and management, maintaining quality plans, monitoring service-level and key performance indicators, and supporting continual improvement and risk management. The role coordinates deliverables, ensures their quality, and serves as a customer point of contact while managing a geographically dispersed team.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Deliverables Management, nice to haveQuality Assurance Processes, nice to haveQuality Standards, nice to haveService Level Agreements, nice to haveSharePoint, requiredExcel, requiredCross-Functional Team Leadership, requiredBriefing Senior Officials, requiredAdministrative Skills, requiredOrganizational Skills, required

Qualifications

BS or Additional Experience, requiredTop Secret With SCI Eligibility, required10+ Years Related Experience, requiredUS Citizenship, required

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Tuition Assistance
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

Full job description

Req ID: RQ232031

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret/SCI

Public Trust/Other Required: None

Job Family: Professional Engineering

Skills:

Deliverables Management,Quality Assurance Processes,Quality Standards,Service Level Agreement (SLA)

Experience:

10 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Make meaningful contributions that fuel critical outcomes for some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects. Join GDIT for a career where your growth is just as important as the mission you support.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT:

As a Principal Quality Analyst, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of Department of War (DoW), Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Special Access Program(s) (SAPs) (DoW SAP CIO).

You will play a crucial role in providing administration support in the following areas:

  • Leads quality control and management efforts developing and applying quality standards in support of the program mission to ensure objective auditing and reporting.

  • Documents service challenges or outages, directs requests for corrective actions to appropriate points of contact, and logs relevant activity.

  • Conducts meetings with programmatic staff to capture trends and lessons learned and ensures broader program awareness.

  • Participate in weekly update briefings to ensure operational awareness.

  • Maintains and updates the program Quality Management Plan (QMP) and Quality Control Plan (QCP) and uses the Quality Assurance Checklist.

  • Assists with appropriate knowledge management practices across the enterprise.

  • Manages, monitors, measures, and reports SLA and KPI performance with performance reporting and deliver reports.

  • Supports Continual Service Improvement activities.

  • Supports Risk Management activities through identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks arising from the daily operations, such as process failures, system issues, or human error.

  • Main interaction and point of contact with the area customer

  • Manages a geographically dispersed team

  • Attend customer meetings and may serve as primary client liaison.

  • Coordinates development of deliverables and products.

  • Ensures quality assurance of project deliverables.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

  • BS degree; may be substituted for additional years of experience

  • 10+ years of related experience

  • Security Clearance Level: Top Secret with SCI eligibility

  • Experience with SharePoint and Excel.

  • Experience managing and leading cross functional teams.

  • Experience briefing senior government officials and providing rapid responses.

  • Demonstrable administrative and organizational skills.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

  • Excellent customizable health benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision)

  • 401K with company match

  • Educational Assistance and eLearning

  • Flexible work week

  • Internal mobility team dedicated to employee advancement

  • Rewards and Recognition programs

  • Innovative and collaborative environment encouraging highly motivated critical thinking

The likely salary range for this position is $107,744 - $143,750. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process:

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

About Our Work:

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.

Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at https://gdit.com/tc.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans

How this job compares

Set against the 4,793 open Quality Assurance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$108–144K/yr
  • Virginia median$83–130K/yr76 salary ranges
  • US median$88–143K/yr2,143 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $126K, is 15% above the Virginia median midpoint ($109K) — in the middle half of Quality Assurance salary ranges in Virginia.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 136 open Quality Assurance jobs in Virginia and 4,793 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Virginia
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Quality Assurance postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 3,688 postings).
Education
1,636 of the 4,793 open Quality Assurance jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 13, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.

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