Quality Assurance Lead

QA Test Lead for assigned programs, releases, modules, and production-readiness efforts. Extensive hands-on Playwright or Selenium automation experience; Playwright + TypeScript strongly Strong BRD/FR analysis, RTM design, requirements traceability, and coverage-management experience. Responsibilities Act as QA Test Lead for assigned programs, releases, modules, and production-readiness efforts. Develop the overall test strategy, scope, entry/exit criteria, estimates, schedules, dependencies, and execution plan. Assign and supervise testing work, review test artifacts, mentor testers, and enforce QA standards. Coordinate with Business Analysts, Developers, Product Owners, Project Managers, DevOps, DBAs, and business stakeholders. Qualifications Required Skills Requirements Analysis and Coverage Review BRDs, Functional Requirements (FRs), user stories, acceptance criteria, workflow diagrams, interface specifications, data mappings, and API specifications. Identify missing, ambiguous, conflicting, or untestable requirements before execution begins. Translate requirements into Test Scenarios (TS), Test Cases (TC), test data, preconditions, expected results, and automation candidates. Drive complete, measurable traceability from requirements to executed tests and defects. Create and maintain Test Plans, Test Suites, Test Cases, configurations, test runs, evidence, and defect links in Azure DevOps (ADO). Establish consistent work-item relationships among BRDs/FRs, TSs, TCs, executions, defects, retests, and closure. Use ADO queries and dashboards to communicate progress, blockers, defects, coverage, and release readiness. Test Design and Execution Create and review Positive, Negative, Boundary Value, Equivalence Partitioning, Decision Table, State Transition, Role/Authorization, Data-Driven, and Risk-Based tests. Coordinate and participate in Smoke, Functional, API, Integration, System, Regression, End-to-End, UAT, Performance-support, Database, and Data Pipeline testing. Ensure failures are reproducible, evidence is complete, and test results are defensible. Defect and Release Management Lead or participate in defect triage and severity/priority decisions. Ensure defects contain environment/build information, reproducible steps, expected/actual results, evidence, and requirement/test links. Provide evidence-based release recommendations and clearly communicate residual quality risk. #J-18808-Ljbffr Govan Systems inc