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, 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 #J-18808-Ljbffr