Product Owner

Software Testing Product Owner

Payrate: $55.00 - $58.00/hr. Summary: The ideal candidate will work with software testing teams, possess a strong understanding of Agile product ownership, and have foundational DevOps knowledge, including CI/CD pipelines, release processes, and environment management. The role is focused on enhancing automation adoption, improving test efficiency, and providing better visibility into quality metrics and release readiness.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the product backlog for the test team's tools, frameworks, and quality initiatives.
• Define and prioritize features for test automation, test data management, environment stability, and reporting.
• Gather requirements from engineering, QA, release, and business stakeholders.
• Translate business and technical needs into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Work closely with QA, development, and DevOps teams to improve quality practices across the SDLC.
• Support continuous improvement of testing processes, automation coverage, and release confidence.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Track key quality metrics such as defect leakage, test coverage, automation success rate, and release readiness.
• Help coordinate test environments and understand dependencies within CI/CD workflows.
• Contribute to prioritization of issues related to build pipelines, test execution reliability, and deployment readiness.
• Act as the main point of contact for testing-related product decisions and roadmap alignment.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years' experience in a related capacity.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, QA Lead, or similar role in a software delivery environment.
• Good understanding of software testing concepts including functional, regression, integration, and automated testing.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.
• Ability to write user stories, define acceptance criteria, and manage a prioritized backlog.
• Familiarity with test management and defect tracking tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, TestRail, or similar.

Skills

• Basic experience with DevOps practices and tools.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Familiarity with source control systems like Git.
• Awareness of environment management, deployment flows, and release coordination.
• Exposure to test automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Postman, or API automation frameworks.
• Experience working with quality dashboards, reporting, and release metrics.
• Experience in regulated, enterprise, or fast-paced delivery environments.
• Knowledge of release management and quality gates.

Soft Skills

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.

Pay Transparency: The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $55.00 - $58.00 /hour. Non-exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience. Full-time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages. Packages may include medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment, 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match, life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, accommodations and reimbursement for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus. Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law.