QA Practice Lead
Eliassen Group
Job Description
Job Description
Description:
Hybrid 3 days onsite in Washington, DC
Our client seeks a QA Practice Lead to stand up and run a transversal QA Practice across an enterprise IT roadmap. The lead will operationalize governance and frameworks, mature toolchains, coach teams, and coordinate stakeholders to drive consistent quality outcomes, reporting, and readiness across programs and projects.
We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $60.00 to $80.00/hr. w2
Responsibilities:- Review the existing QA Framework and Operational Manual. Guide, adjust, and operationalize it across active and upcoming initiatives.
- Define the operating model for the transversal QA Practice, clarifying interactions between central governance and project-level QA execution.
- Establish and facilitate QA governance routines, quality reviews, and escalation mechanisms.
- Review and improve QA standards, templates, quality gates, metrics, dashboards, and evidence expectations.
- Assess the current QA technology stack, including Azure DevOps, JIRA with X-Ray, Selenium, Postman, and related automation tooling. Identify practical gaps.
- Propose an end-to-end QA tool stack with enhancements, integrations, or extensions to enable manual and automated testing across domains.
- Define standards for test management, defect tracking, and reporting that are consistent across projects and tool-agnostic where appropriate.
- Coach project teams and QA Engineers on applying the QA Framework in day-to-day delivery.
- Disseminate the QA Practice across business stakeholder groups to build shared accountability for process validation, UAT, operational readiness, and release quality.
- Support knowledge transfer and institutionalization of the QA Practice beyond the engagement.
- Support leadership-level reporting on quality risks, delivery readiness, defect trends, testing progress, and go-live quality gates.
- Establish and maintain a portfolio-level QA roadmap aligned with the IT Roadmap, identifying priorities, risks, shared assets, dependencies, and sequencing.
- Coordinate vendor-provided QA specialist leads to ensure consistent practice and delivery quality.
- Coordinate with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, data, operations, and change management to ensure QA delivers enterprise-wide value.
- Proven leadership of an enterprise or portfolio-level QA Practice with governance and operating model establishment.
- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD, JIRA and X-Ray, Selenium, Postman, and QA automation frameworks.
- Track record defining QA standards, metrics, dashboards, and quality gates across multiple programs.
- Experience coaching teams and executing organizational change for QA adoption.
- Strong coordination across vendors and cross-functional enterprise teams.
- Executive reporting on quality risks, readiness, and defect trends.
- Ability to build and maintain a portfolio QA roadmap aligned to an IT transformation.
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Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range. W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality. If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please ensure that you are working directly with us by confirming the following:
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About Eliassen Group:
Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients’ capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.
Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and all employment decisions are based on merit, performance, and business needs. Eliassen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual preference or orientation, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), marital status, creed, religion, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, age, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, prohibited criminal record inquiries of applicants and employees, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.
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