Quality Assurance Lead

Job Title: Quality Assurance Lead
Location: PA - Pittsburgh, TX - Dallas, OH - Strongsville, AL - Birmingham, AZ - Phoenix
Type: Contract
Compensation:
Contractor Work Model: Onsite – onsite
Hours: 40.0

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic testing efforts within a global delivery model, providing expertise in quality assurance and business domain alignment.
• Review testing artifacts throughout the product lifecycle to ensure proper sign-off and prioritization of testing activities.
• Coordinate test strategy development, scripting, defect resolution, and ensure early engagement with internal partners.
• Proactively plan testing activities to embed quality as a core focus early in the product lifecycle.
• Take accountability for maintaining quality standards in test script development, implementation, and automation opportunities.
• Lead the review and sign-off of testing artifacts, facilitate defect management, and oversee usability and controls testing processes.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience leading quality assurance projects or programs.
• Expertise in test case development, software testing, controls testing, and usability testing.
• Strong analytical thinking skills and knowledge of quality assurance (QA) best practices.
• Experience with corporate governance and quality support processes.
• Ability to manage and lead testing activities in a fast-paced, global environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Must Have

• Experience in banking or financial services is strongly preferred.
• Experience working with Kafka, Web Services, Oracle, MongoDB, and distributed systems.
• Proven experience leading testing efforts for large scale, multiteam initiatives.
• Senior level experience as an SDET or QA Engineer, with a strong focus on automation and enterprise systems.
• Solid understanding of test strategy, governance, and risk based testing.
• trong hands on expertise with: 1. Java, Selenium, Cucumber/Gherkin 2. API testing (REST, SOAP) 3. CI/CD pipelines and automated quality gates

Nice To Have

• Banking experience is a great plus
• Comfortable operating at both strategic and hands on levels.
• Passionate about mentoring and raising the overall quality maturity of teams.
• Strong communicator who can articulate quality risks and tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Thought leader in quality engineering who challenges the status quo.

System One, and its subsidiaries including Joulé and Mountain Ltd., are leaders in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.

System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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