Job Description
Job Description Position Summary
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.
Core 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.
Requirements Skill
Required / Desired
Amount
of Experience
QA/testing experience in enterprise software environments
Required
7
Years
QA Lead, Test Lead, or senior QA role with formal leadership responsibility.
Required
2
Years
Extensive hands-on Playwright or Selenium automation experience; Playwright + TypeScript strongly preferred
Required
Strong BRD/FR analysis, RTM design, requirements traceability, and coverage-management experience.
Required
Strong API testing and SQL/database validation experience.
Required
Experience supervising testers, reviewing test artifacts, leading defect triage, and reporting to management.
Required
Experience with Git, code review, CI/CD, and modern software delivery practices.
Required
Playwright + TypeScript framework design and migration experience from Selenium.