QA Analyst

We are looking for a QA Analyst to support a major automotive program in Southern California. This long-term contract opportunity is ideal for a quality specialist who can lead structured testing efforts, coordinate with cross-functional teams, and maintain strong visibility into readiness, risks, and outcomes. The role requires a hands-on approach to planning, execution, defect oversight, and reporting within a complex enterprise environment.Responsibilities:• Develop and manage the overall quality assurance approach for the assigned program, including testing scope, readiness checkpoints, execution timelines, and status oversight.• Produce and maintain core QA documentation such as test plans, schedules, scenarios, cases, data preparation plans, environment readiness plans, and approval milestones.• Coordinate testing activities across business units, internal technology teams, external vendors, platform partners, integration teams, infrastructure groups, and security stakeholders.• Monitor day-to-day testing progress by tracking coverage, execution results, defect activity, test data availability, environment status, dependencies, and unresolved decisions.• Facilitate recurring QA review sessions to document progress, remove blockers, clarify next steps, and keep all participants aligned during execution.• Identify emerging risks, issues, and dependency concerns early, then communicate business impact, recommended actions, and escalation needs to leadership.• Lead defect review and resolution efforts by partnering with application teams, integration resources, vendors, downstream stakeholders, and business representatives.• Maintain clear traceability between requirements, test cases, execution evidence, defect records, and release readiness decisions.• Prepare detailed QA reporting that highlights delivery progress, defect trends, completed work, upcoming milestones, open risks, and decisions requiring stakeholder input.• Support release preparation activities, including go/no-go readiness reviews, stakeholder updates, production validation planning, and post-cycle retrospective discussions.