Quality Assurance Specialist ; QAS

Quality Assurance Specialist 3(QAS3)

Location:

Columbus, OH

Work Model:
Onsite

Compensation: $85-90k per year

POSITION OVERVIEW

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.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

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, Dev Ops, 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 Dev Ops Test Plans

· Create and maintain Test Plans, Test Suites, Test Cases, configurations, test runs, evidence, and defect links in Azure Dev Ops (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.

WHAT'S NEEDED

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 + Type Script 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 + Type Script framework design and migration experience from Selenium. Highly desired Experience creating reusable fixtur
· Experience with reusable fixtures, APIes, Page Objects, API clients, test-data factories, and custom reporting.

EE Highly desired Performance-testing exposure and ability to coordinate specialized performance or security testing. Highly desired Experience with parallel execution and worker-safe test design. Highly desired Experience combining UI, API, and database validation in a single business workflow. Highly desired Docker/container familiarity, performance-testing exposure, or accessibility-testing exposure. Highly desired

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Other standard benefits as applicable

ABOUT UNICON

UNICON is a workforce solutions provider with over 35 years of experience supporting organizations across a variety of industries. We partner with our clients to deliver skilled professionals while maintaining a strong focus on quality, compliance, and long-term relationships. UNICON is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.