QA Lead, Quality Assurance - QA​/QC, IT QA Tester ​/ Automation

One of our clients in the government domain is seeking a QA Lead to plan, coordinate, govern, and report on the end-to-end testing effort for enterprise applications and integrations. This role bridges business requirements and technical validation, supervises testers, ensures measurable requirements traceability, and provides management with clear release-readiness information. The candidate must be capable of hands-on work, including reviewing and writing automation code when required.

• 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 plans.
• Assign and supervise testing work, review test artifacts, mentor testers, and enforce QA standards.
• Coordinate with Business Analysts, Developers, Product Owners, PMs, Dev Ops, DBAs, and business stakeholders.

• Review BRDs, Functional Requirements (FRs), user stories, acceptance criteria, workflow diagrams, interface specifications, data mappings, and API specs.
• 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.
• Create and maintain Test Plans, Test Suites, Test Cases, configurations, test runs, evidence, and defect links in 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.

• 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, Database, and Data Pipeline testing.
• Ensure failures are reproducible, evidence is complete, and test results are defensible.

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

• 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 + Type Script 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.

• Playwright + Type Script framework design and migration experience from Selenium.
• Experience creating reusable fixtures.
  
  Experience with 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.
• Experience with parallel execution and worker-safe test design.
• Experience combining UI, API, and database validation in a single business workflow.
• Docker/container familiarity, performance-testing exposure, or accessibility-testing exposure.

Skills :

QA Lead & Test Strategy,Automation Engineering (Playwright/Type Script),API & Database Validation