QA Lead

Description:
Diversified Systems is searching for a QA Lead to 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.

Responsibilities:

• 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, DevOps, 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 DevOps Test Plans
  • Create and maintain Test Plans, Test Suites, Test Cases, configurations, test runs, evidence, and defect links in Azure DevOps (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.

Requirements:

• 7 years of QA/testing experience in enterprise software environments required.
• 2 years of experience in a QA Lead, Test Lead, or senior QA role with formal leadership responsibility required.
• Extensive hands-on Playwright or Selenium automation experience; Playwright + TypeScript 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 + TypeScript framework design and migration experience from Selenium highly desired.
• Experience with reusable fixtures, Page Objects, API clients, test-data factories, and custom reporting 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.

About Diversified Systems
Founded in 1990, Diversified Systems is an award-winning Technology Services corporation providing all levels of IT project consulting services nationwide. DSI is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio with regional offices in the American Midwest and East Coast. We offer our consultants a number of flexible and competitive compensation benefit packages.

Diversified Systems is committed to the principles of equal employment. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities, and all other employment laws and regulations.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
DSI values authenticity and is committed to making sure our employees and partners are valued and respected. At DSI, we believe building a diverse culture is important because we know when people work together, we can achieve better results as a team. DSI realizes that everyone comes from various backgrounds. We celebrate these differences because our employees are our greatest asset as we strive to best meet the needs of those we serve. As part of our ongoing efforts, DSI is focused on advancing equality, diversity, and inclusion by setting high standards to continually evolve our culture. This includes but is not limited to recruiting, community involvement, client delivery, and career development.