QA Leader
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Job Location:
Dallas, IA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Title: QA Leader
Job Location: Dallas Tx
Job Type: Contract
Job Description:
Test Strategy & Planning
- Own and evolve the enterprise test strategy across functional regression automation integration and performance testing.
- Define and maintain testing standards best practices and quality metrics aligned to business goals.
- Partner with Product Engineering and DevOps to embed quality throughout the SDLC.
- Oversee automated test suites (UI API backend) and ensure integration into CI/CD pipelines; champion shift left testing.
Team Leadership & Management
- Provide strategic people leadership for Managers Senior Delivery Leads Test Architects and cross functional QA/engineering teams.
- Mentor and develop leaders at multiple levels to strengthen organizational capability and technical excellence.
- Lead all core people management responsibilities: performance career development succession planning and talent retention.
- Drive resource and workforce planning aligned with delivery priorities and long term objectives.
- Build a high performance culture centered on accountability collaboration quality and continuous improvement.
Execution & Delivery
- Ensure all testing activities are delivered on time within scope and with high quality.
- Oversee defect triage root cause analysis and quality risk management.
- Provide clear data driven quality insights to leadership and stakeholders.
- Continuously improve testing efficiency reliability and automation maturity.
Process & Quality Governance
- Maintain and strengthen QA processes including test planning test case management and release readiness.
- Promote and enforce industry best practices across test strategy automation and quality governance.
Required Qualifications
- Director / Senior Director level leader with experience overseeing Managers Senior Delivery Leads Architects and cross functional engineering teams.
- 18 years of total experience in QE/QA/Software Engineering with progressive leadership roles.
- 10 years of direct people management experience leading multi layered technical organizations.
- Proven experience building and scaling QA organizations in enterprise environments.
- Strong hands on background in test automation (e.g. Selenium Playwright).
- Solid understanding of CI/CD (Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Jenkins).
- Demonstrated success designing and executing enterprise test strategies.
- Experience working within Agile/Scrum delivery models.
- Strong analytical and communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with cloud based testing (Azure AWS GCP).
- Knowledge of performance testing tools (JMeter LoadRunner k6).
- Familiarity with API testing frameworks (Postman REST Assured).
- Experience in large scale SaaS or enterprise platform environments.
