Quality Assurance Specialist

OIC-Quality Assurance Specialist 3

Location: Columbus, OH – Onsite role

Duration: Long Term

Onsite Interviews: 30 W Spring Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215

Work Location: Same onsite location

Job Description

Position Summary

The QA Lead will 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.

Core 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.

Skill Matrix

·        QA/testing experience in enterprise software environments – 7+ years – Required

·        QA Lead, Test Lead, or Senior QA role with formal leadership responsibility – 2+ years – 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, API clients, Page Objects, test-data factories, and custom reporting – Highly Desired

·        Performance-testing exposure and ability to coordinate specialized performance or security testing – Highly Desired

·        Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience – Highly Desired

·        Data pipeline / ETL validation experience – Required