Quality Assurance Lead

Sr. Professional Recruiter - Insight Global

Rate: $49-55/hr

Location: HYBRID – working onsite in Arden Hills or Maple Grove 2‑3x a week

Insight Global is seeking a Senior QA Lead to join the team of one of our largest medical device clients.

In this role, the QA Lead is responsible for driving quality excellence across complex, cross‑functional IT initiatives, including new product launches, enterprise system implementations, system integrations, and other transformational programs within a regulated medical device environment.

This role works closely with Program Managers, Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Operations teams to ensure compliance, process adherence, and quality throughout the entire IT delivery lifecycle. It emphasizes process‑driven execution, program‑level quality oversight, and hands‑on test leadership across enterprise and regulated IT systems.

The ideal candidate combines strategic quality leadership with practical testing expertise to enable successful delivery of critical IT programs in a highly regulated setting. This is a hybrid role that requires a local candidate willing to work onsite 2‑3x a week.

• Experience in IT quality assurance within the medical device or regulated healthcare industry.
• Demonstrated experience supporting enterprise IT programs, system implementations, integrations, product launches, or M&A‑related IT initiatives.
• Strong understanding of Agile, or hybrid delivery models.
• Proven ability to lead QA efforts in matrixed, cross‑functional IT environments.
• Strong communication, risk management, and stakeholder engagement skills.

• Provide end‑to‑end quality leadership across IT programs involving product launches, enterprise system implementations, and large‑scale transformation initiatives.
• Lead QA activities across multiple IT work streams, ensuring alignment of quality deliverables across applications, integrations, data flows, and business processes.
• Partner with Program Managers to integrate quality milestones, dependencies, validation activities, and risk management into overall program plans.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Business Analysts to ensure business and system requirements are clear, testable, traceable, and compliant with regulatory and quality standards.
• Lead quality integration and process harmonization efforts for IT systems, including validation gap assessments, SDLC alignment, and documentation standardization.
• Ensure system and release readiness, including system validation, integration testing, UAT, regression testing, and quality readiness assessments.
• Drive process adherence and continuous improvement across Agile and hybrid delivery models, ensuring compliance is embedded throughout the IT lifecycle.
• Identify, assess, and communicate quality, compliance, and delivery risks related to IT systems and integrations, escalating issues appropriately and supporting informed go/no‑go decisions.
• Establish and maintain quality governance, metrics, and reporting for IT initiatives, providing clear, data‑driven visibility to stakeholders and leadership.