QA Lead

Company: ALTA IT Services
Location: Bethesda
Posted on: April 7, 2025

Job Description:

QA Lead

Read the overview of this opportunity to understand what skills, including and relevant soft skills and software package proficiencies, are required.
Hybrid-Auburn Hills MI


Responsibilities:
Our client is seeking a QA Lead to join their team. The Quality Assurance Lead will be responsible for leading testing activities across different projects in the program. This will include development and implementation of the following deliverables according to the client's standards.

The QA Lead has full responsibility for leading and overseeing the QA testing for complex projects in support of the business. The QA Lead is responsible for the on time delivery of all QA related deliverables, including the QA Estimate, End to End Test Plan, Test Cases, RTM, Defect Management, Test Results and Production Deployment Approval. The QA Lead must be able to plan and lead the UAT effort. The QA Lead must be able to work independently, interacting with Senior Leaders and Business Users. The QA Lead must be able to provide direction to the QA Team who may be onshore, offshore, or both.

The QA Lead must be seasoned in all aspects of application QA testing and must possess a solid understanding of the STLC. The QA Lead must be able to work in a dynamic and changing environment, often with competing priorities. The QA Lead must have experience working in an Agile environment.

The QA Lead must follow existing standards and processes and be able to recommend/advise on best practice.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The QA Lead must be familiar with and able to lead all testing types: Functional
System and System Integration
Regression
User Acceptance
Automated Testing
Performance Testing

Purpose of Role/Organizational Unit: The QA Lead and QA Team are responsible for identifying and lowering risk to our business users and end consumers through robust and thorough application testing that covers all functional and non-functional requirements.

The QA Lead: Plays a lead role in QA efforts on multiple and simultaneous projects.
Works on projects of moderate to high complexity that requires in-depth knowledge across multiple technical areas and business segments.
Work with software architects and developers throughout the software development life cycle to develop software test strategy and plan.
Responsible for leading the full test lifecycle
Participate in all aspects of testing
Responsible for the overall success of testing
Manages assigned projects from IT Quality Testing through user acceptance testing and production deployment.
Performs quality audits to ensure quality standards, procedures and methodologies are being followed.


Qualifications:
Education and Years of Experience: A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent work experience is required.


Ref: #855-IT Baltimore

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