Lead QA Engineer

Lead QA Engineer

Category: Testing/Quality Assurance

Main location: United States, Tennessee, Nashville

Position ID: J0326-2327

Employment Type: Full Time

Position Description:

CGI is seeking a Lead QA Engineer to join our team in Nashville. In this role, you will serve as a full-time consultant supporting local and enterprise clients by solving complex business and technical challenges. You will partner with internal teams and client stakeholders to drive quality across software and data solutions while helping deliver reliable, scalable, and high-performing systems.

You will work in a fast-paced consulting environment alongside smart, dedicated professionals who value collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation. This role is ideal for a quality engineering leader who is passionate about mentoring others, improving delivery practices, and applying modern testing approaches across manual, automated, and performance testing initiatives.

This position is located in Nashville in a hybrid working environment.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

-Lead a team of QA engineers across multiple testing initiatives

-Mentor junior and mid-level QA engineers and support their professional growth

-Ensure quality delivery by analyzing business requirements and developing test plans and test cases

-Plan and execute manual, automated, and performance test scenarios for software and data implementations

-Participate in the full software development lifecycle from analysis and design through quality assurance, delivery, and support

-Collaborate with team members to identify more efficient ways of working, including the use of AI to improve quality and delivery efficiency

-Engage with business partners to analyze business processes and gather requirements

-Contribute to project estimation and planning activities with team members

-Document, communicate, and track defects, risks, and testing trends throughout the QA lifecycle

-Strengthen quality standards and testing practices across project teams

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

-5+ years of experience in automated testing

-Experience leading a team

-Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to build and maintain trusted relationships with clients, team members, managers, and domain experts

-Demonstrated ability to understand business needs, analyze requests, and recommend effective testing solutions

-Willingness to work across all aspects of quality assurance, including manual, automated, and performance testing

-Ability to identify gaps and failure points in requirements, user stories, test cases, test plans, and test scripts

-Ability to anticipate how users may misunderstand or deviate from intended application flows

-Experience documenting, reporting, and communicating defects and quality trends

-Knowledge of industry-standard automation tools and frameworks, with hands-on ability to implement and execute automated tests

-Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with close attention to detail

-Experience programming in a modern language such as Java, Python, or C#

-Solid understanding of database principles and the ability to write and interpret SQL

-Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Management Information Systems, Computer Information Systems, or a related field, or significant experience as a QA Automation Engineer

Desired qualifications

-Hands-on experience designing and building test automation using tools such as Selenium, Cucumber, SmartBear, Postman, SoapUI, and TestComplete

-Hands-on experience designing and building performance tests using tools such as JMeter and LoadRunner

-Experience testing data, ETL, API, web application, serverless, mobile, and reporting solutions

-Experience with CI/CD integrations and Git

-Working knowledge of or hands-on experience testing cloud applications in AWS and Azure

CGI anticipates accepting applications for this position through July 30, 2026.

Other Information:

CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit-based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $79,600.00 - $176,300.00.

CGI's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:

-Competitive compensation

-Comprehensive insurance options

-Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan

-Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time

-Paid parental leave

-Learning opportunities and tuition assistance

-Wellness and Well-being programs

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Skills:

• Cucumber

• HP Loadrunner

• Performance/stress testing

• Postman

• Requirements Analysis

• Selenium

• SoapUI

• Test case / script development

What you can expect from us:

Together, as owners, let's turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you'll reach your full potential because...

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That's why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company's strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You'll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You'll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You'll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

Come join our team-one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, sex, religion, creed, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, pregnancy, medical condition, military and veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and gender expression, familial status or responsibilities, reproductive health decisions, political affiliation, genetic information, height, weight, or any other legally protected status or characteristics to the extent required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws where we do business.

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