Quality Assurance Specialist Lead

Job Summary:

The OIC-Quality Assurance Specialist 3 (QAS3) serves as a QA Lead responsible for planning, coordinating, and governing end-to-end testing efforts for enterprise applications and integrations. This role bridges business requirements with technical validation, supervises testing teams, ensures requirements traceability, and provides clear release-readiness reporting. The specialist also contributes to automation code review and development as needed, working onsite in Columbus, Ohio. Responsibilities:

• Act as Test Lead for programs, releases, modules, and production-readiness efforts.
• Develop test strategies, scope, entry/exit criteria, schedules, and execution plans.
• Assign and supervise testing tasks, review test artifacts, mentor testers, and enforce QA standards.
• Coordinate with Business Analysts, Developers, Product Owners, Project Managers, DevOps, DBAs, and stakeholders.
• Review business requirements, functional requirements, user stories, and technical specifications to identify gaps.
• Translate requirements into test scenarios, test cases, test data, and automation candidates.
• Maintain measurable traceability from requirements through test execution and defect management.
• Create and maintain test plans, suites, cases, configurations, and defect links in Azure DevOps.
• Design and execute various types of tests including smoke, functional, API, integration, regression, UAT, and performance-support tests.
• Lead defect triage sessions and manage defect severity and priority decisions.
• Provide evidence-based release recommendations and communicate residual quality risks.

Required Skills & Certifications:

• Minimum 7 years of QA/testing experience in enterprise software environments.
• At least 2 years in QA Lead, Test Lead, or senior QA roles with formal leadership responsibility.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Playwright or Selenium automation; Playwright with TypeScript strongly preferred.
• Strong skills in business requirements document (BRD) and functional requirements (FR) analysis, requirements traceability matrix (RTM) design, and coverage management.
• Experience with API testing and SQL/database validation.
• Proven experience supervising testers, reviewing test artifacts, leading defect triage, and reporting to management.
• Familiarity with Git, code review processes, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software delivery practices.

Preferred Skills & Certifications:

• Experience designing Playwright + TypeScript frameworks and migrating from Selenium.
• Knowledge of reusable fixtures, page objects, API clients, test-data factories, and custom reporting.
• Exposure to performance testing and coordination of specialized performance or security testing.
• Experience with parallel test execution and worker-safe test design.
• Ability to combine UI, API, and database validations within a single business workflow.
• Familiarity with Docker/container technologies, accessibility testing, and advanced performance testing.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.

Special Considerations:

• Strict prohibition on taking or using government equipment outside the United States; violation results in immediate termination and ineligibility for rehire.
• Selected candidates must consent to a BCI fingerprint background check.
• Work is required onsite at the William Green Building, 8th floor, 30 West Spring Street, Columbus, Ohio.

Scheduling:

• Standard onsite work schedule at the specified Columbus, Ohio location.
• Contract period from September 14, 2026, through June 30, 2027.