Quality Assurance Specialist

Job Title: Quality Assurance Specialist

Job Code: OH 812430

Client: State of Ohio - OIC

Location: Columbus, OH - 100% Onsite

Duration: Through 06/30/2027
Work Location: 30 W Spring Street, Columbus, OH 43215

Closing Date: 09/29/2026 at 4:00 PM

Position Overview

The QA Lead will plan, coordinate, govern, and report on end-to-end testing for enterprise applications and integrations. This role bridges business requirements and technical validation , supervises testers, ensures requirements traceability, and provides management with clear release-readiness and quality-risk information .

The candidate must also be capable of reviewing and writing automation code when needed.

Required Skills

• 7+ years of QA/testing experience in enterprise software environments
• 2+ years as a QA Lead, Test Lead, or Senior QA with formal leadership responsibilities
• Hands-on Playwright or Selenium automation experience; Playwright + TypeScript strongly preferred
• Strong BRD/FR analysis, RTM design, requirements traceability, and coverage management
• Strong API testing and SQL/database validation
• Experience supervising testers, reviewing test artifacts, and leading defect triage
• Experience with Git, code reviews, CI/CD , and modern software delivery practices
• Experience with Azure DevOps Test Plans
• Experience with Smoke, Functional, API, Integration, System, Regression, E2E, UAT, Database, and Data Pipeline testing
• Data pipeline / ETL validation experience

Highly Desired Skills

• Playwright + TypeScript framework design and migration from Selenium
• Reusable fixtures, Page Objects, API clients, test-data factories, and custom reporting
• Performance testing exposure
• Ability to coordinate specialized performance or security testing
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering , or equivalent professional experience

Key Responsibilities

Test Leadership & Governance

• Serve as Test Lead for programs, releases, modules, and production-readiness efforts.
• Develop test strategy, scope, entry/exit criteria, estimates, schedules, dependencies, and execution plans.
• Assign and supervise testing activities and mentor testers.
• Review test artifacts and enforce QA standards.
• Coordinate with BAs, Developers, Product Owners, PMs, DevOps, DBAs, and business stakeholders.

Requirements & Traceability

• Review BRDs, functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, workflows, data mappings, and API specifications.
• Identify missing, ambiguous, conflicting, or untestable requirements.
• Translate requirements into test scenarios, test cases, test data, preconditions, expected results, and automation candidates.
• Maintain measurable traceability from requirements through testing and defects.

Azure DevOps Test Plans

• Create and maintain Test Plans, Test Suites, Test Cases, configurations, test runs, evidence, and defect links in ADO.
• Maintain relationships between requirements, test cases, executions, defects, retests, and closure.
• Use ADO queries and dashboards to report progress, blockers, defects, coverage, and release readiness.

Test Design & Execution

• Design and review positive, negative, boundary value, equivalence partitioning, decision table, state transition, role/authorization, data-driven, and risk-based tests.
• Coordinate Smoke, Functional, API, Integration, System, Regression, E2E, UAT, Performance-support, Database, and Data Pipeline testing.
• Ensure failures are reproducible and test evidence is complete.

Defect & Release Management

• Lead or participate in defect triage and severity/priority decisions.
• Ensure defects contain environment/build details, reproducible steps, expected/actual results, evidence, and requirement/test links.
• Provide evidence-based release recommendations and communicate residual quality risks.

Primary Skills

QA Testing, QA Lead, Test Lead, Selenium, Playwright, TypeScript, Automation, API Testing, SQL, Database Testing, Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD, Requirements Traceability, RTM, BRD/FR Analysis, Test Strategy, Test Planning, Defect Management, ETL/Data Pipeline Testing, Performance Testing

About SR International INC

SR International has been a leading name among the IT consulting companies with offices in US and India. For past 16 years, our industry experience and domain knowledge have enabled us to provide innovative solutions to our customers.

Who We Are
We Are Leading IT Based Solution Providers

Today, the world of business information represents the realization of our collective efforts toward improving the future. Held only by the limits of our imagination, the business world is accelerating at an ever-increasing pace. Imagine a better way of doing business, of implementing the perfect software, of refining practice or business integration. All it takes are benchmark standards in service, support, and technical know-how, which have been our bread and butter.

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Established in 2002, SR International Inc is one of the fastest growing and reputed provider of Information Technology Services and Solutions in the USA. Since our inception, we have been a trusted IT partner for our clients. We take pride in our highly skilled IT Resources and unique engagement model. We have been consistently delivering on our promises as a high-performance team. Our expertise in Cloud Computing, Mobility, Web Technologies, ERP and CRM are second to none. Our industry-leading flagship product iMathSmart is re-defining math learning experience for school students.

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