Quality Assurance Lead

Quality Assurance Lead

Locations: PA - Pittsburgh, TX - Dallas, OH - Strongsville, AL - Birmingham, AZ - Phoenix Type: Contract Compensation: Contractor Work Model: Onsite – onsite Hours: 40.0

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic testing efforts within a global delivery model, providing expertise in quality assurance and business domain alignment.
• Review testing artifacts throughout the product lifecycle to ensure proper sign-off and prioritization of testing activities.
• Coordinate test strategy development, scripting, defect resolution, and ensure early engagement with internal partners.
• Proactively plan testing activities to embed quality as a core focus early in the product lifecycle.
• Take accountability for maintaining quality standards in test script development, implementation, and automation opportunities.
• Lead the review and sign-off of testing artifacts, facilitate defect management, and oversee usability and controls testing processes.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience leading quality assurance projects or programs.
• Expertise in test case development, software testing, controls testing, and usability testing.
• Strong analytical thinking skills and knowledge of quality assurance (QA) best practices.
• Experience with corporate governance and quality support processes.
• Ability to manage and lead testing activities in a fast-paced, global environment.

Technical Skills

Must Have

• Experience in banking or financial services is strongly preferred.
• Experience working with Kafka, Web Services, Oracle, MongoDB, and distributed systems.
• Proven experience leading testing efforts for large scale, multiteam initiatives.
• Senior level experience as an SDET or QA Engineer, with a strong focus on automation and enterprise systems.
• Solid understanding of test strategy, governance, and risk based testing.
• Strong hands on expertise with: 1. Java, Selenium, Cucumber/Gherkin 2. API testing (REST, SOAP) 3. CI/CD pipelines and automated quality gates

Nice To Have

• Banking experience is a great plus
• Comfortable operating at both strategic and hands on levels.
• Passionate about mentoring and raising the overall quality maturity of teams.
• Strong communicator who can articulate quality risks and tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Thought leader in quality engineering who challenges the status quo.