QA Automation Lead

QA Automation Lead

Job Location: Columbus, OH, USA, 43215

Work Model: Onsite

Shift: 8 AM to 5 PM, Monday to Friday

Employment Type: Temporary

Min Hourly Rate: $35.00

Max Hourly Rate: $50.00

Must Have Skills/Attributes: Design, QA, SQL, Testing Experience

Desired Experience: Overall QA / software testing experience in enterprise environments (7 yrs); QA Lead, Test Lead, or senior QA professional with formal leadership responsibility (2 yrs); Hands-on automation experience with Playwright, TypeScript and Selenium (2 yrs); Strong BRD / Functional Requirements analysis experience (2 yrs); Strong SQL / database validation experience (7 yrs); Experience with Git, code review, and CI/CD (5 yrs); Data pipeline / ETL validation experience (5 yrs)

Preferred Education: Bachelor's Degree

Job Description:

Required Experience: QA/testing experience in enterprise software environments (7 Years) QA Lead, Test Lead, or senior QA role with formal leadership responsibility (2 Years) Extensive hands-on Playwright or Selenium automation experience; Playwright + TypeScript strongly preferred Strong BRD/FR analysis, RTM design, requirements traceability, and coverage-management experience Strong API testing and SQL/database validation experience Experience supervising testers, reviewing test artifacts, leading defect triage, and reporting to management Experience with Git, code review, CI/CD, and modern software delivery practices Data pipeline / ETL validation experience

Preferred Experience: Playwright + TypeScript framework design and migration experience from Selenium Experience creating reusable fixtures, APIes, Page Objects, API clients, test-data factories, and custom reporting.EE Performance-testing exposure and ability to coordinate specialized performance or security testing

Job Overview: The QA Lead will plan, coordinate, govern, and report the end-to-end testing effort for enterprise applications and integrations. The role must bridge business requirements and technical validation, supervise other testers, ensure measurable requirements traceability, and provide management with clear release-readiness information. The QA Lead must also be capable of reviewing and writing automation code when needed.

Job Responsibilities:

Test Leadership and Governance: Act as Test Lead for assigned programs, releases, modules, and production-readiness efforts Develop the overall test strategy, scope, entry/exit criteria, estimates, schedules, dependencies, and execution plan Assign and supervise testing work, review test artifacts, mentor testers, and enforce QA standards Coordinate with Business Analysts, Developers, Product Owners, Project Managers, DevOps, DBAs, and business stakeholders

Requirements Analysis and Coverage: Review BRDs, Functional Requirements (FRs), user stories, acceptance criteria, workflow diagrams, interface specifications, data mappings, and API specifications Identify missing, ambiguous, conflicting, or untestable requirements before execution begins Translate requirements into Test Scenarios (TS), Test Cases (TC), test data, preconditions, expected results, and automation candidates Drive complete, measurable traceability from requirements to executed tests and defects

Azure DevOps Test Plans: Create and maintain Test Plans, Test Suites, Test Cases, configurations, test runs, evidence, and defect links in Azure DevOps (ADO) Establish consistent work-item relationships among BRDs/FRs, TSs, TCs, executions, defects, retests, and closure Use ADO queries and dashboards to communicate progress, blockers, defects, coverage, and release readiness

Test Design and Execution: Create and review Positive, Negative, Boundary Value, Equivalence Partitioning, Decision Table, State Transition, Role/Authorization, Data-Driven, and Risk-Based tests Coordinate and participate in Smoke, Functional, API, Integration, System, Regression, End-to-End, UAT, Performance-support, Database, and Data Pipeline testing Ensure failures are reproducible, evidence is complete, and test results are defensible

Defect and Release Management: Lead or participate in defect triage and severity/priority decisions Ensure defects contain environment/build information, reproducible steps, expected/actual results, evidence, and requirement/test links Provide evidence-based release recommendations and clearly communicate residual quality risk

**Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**

**Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client's business needs and requirements.**