End User Migration QE Lead

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We are looking for a End User Migration QE Lead to join our growing team in Qualitest.

Role:
End User Migration QE Lead

Location:

Houston, Texas preferred though it's remote.

Duration: 3-4 months but likely to be extended (looking for a Full-Time Employee)

Top 3 Must Haves:

1) Strong experience with end‑user migration testing (desktop, infrastructure, or environment migrations)

2) Hands‑on application compatibility testing across web clients, FAT clients, and file‑share dependent apps

3) Ability to identify, log, and track defects through remediation

4) Experience validating access, permissions, and file share behavior

5) Strong communication skills to work directly with business users and IT teams

Job Description:

Seek a Senior End‑User Migration Test Lead to support tour client's End User Migration Testing. This role is responsible for leading and executing smoke testing, overseeing UAT activities, coordinating remediation efforts, and supporting program‑level management activities to ensure a smooth migration of end users into a new domain while maintaining functionality of applications in the legacy environment.

The ideal candidate is a hands‑on QA professional with strong communication skills, experience in migration testing, and the ability to independently manage testing activities across multiple work streams.

Responsibilities:

* Perform application compatibility testing as users migrate to new environments

* Validate functionality across web clients, FAT clients, and file‑share dependent applications

* Identify, document, and track defects through remediation

* Ensure file share access, permissions, and user access patterns remain functional post‑migration

* Execute structured test cycles and support SIT testing for Finance systems

* Coordinate with developers, business analysts, and program managers to resolve issues

* Participate in planning for migration waves and testing cycles

* Provide clear communication to stakeholders regarding defects, risks, and readiness

* Support expansion into integration testing as the program progresses

* Ramp up quickly on Calpine's application landscape and user workflows

Qualifications:

* 7+ years of QA experience with a strong focus on end‑user migration testing, smoke testing, and application validation across enterprise environments.

* Proven ability to lead testing activities independently, including test script analysis, authoring, execution, defect lifecycle ownership, and UAT oversight with business users.

* Deep experience with defect triage, remediation coordination, and cross‑team communication, including working with support teams, developers, and program leadership.

* Strong understanding of domain migrations, authentication dependencies, file‑share access, permissions, and cross‑environment workflows.

* Hands‑on experience administering test management and defect tracking tools (Azure Dev Ops, Jira, ALM, qTest) and producing structured test documentation and reporting.

* Demonstrated ability to support command center/hypercare operations, manage issue intake, and provide clear daily reporting during migration waves.

* Excellent communication, organization, and stakeholder‑management skills, with the ability to operate as the primary testing lead across multiple work streams

Benefits

Why Quali Test?

* Be a part of a company who strives to support for diversity and inclusion in the workplace - we are one, we are many ebrate culture, share knowledge with engineers from around the globe, and inspire each other through our differences. We have more than 40% women and around 120 different nationalities.

* Local and global opportunities - we offer you internal rotation and international mobility opportunities to grow your career.

* Clear view of your career and progression with the company - Qualitest is growing massively (since 2021 - tripled our employees base - we now have more than 8,000 engineers) and giving you the opportunity to grow with…