Lead QA

Job Summary: We are seeking an experienced QA Lead to support strategic initiatives across the Data and Integration (Interoperability) landscape. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for defining testing strategies, driving quality standards, coordinating testing activities, and ensuring the successful delivery of scalable, high-quality enterprise data and integration solutions. A key focus of the role is advancing test automation capabilities across data, API, and integration domains while balancing ongoing project delivery needs.

Key Responsibilities: Lead end-to-end QA efforts across data, integration, and interoperability initiatives. Define and execute comprehensive test strategies, plans, and quality processes. Partner with architects, developers, product owners, and business stakeholders to ensure quality throughout the delivery lifecycle. Lead functional, integration, regression, system, and user acceptance testing activities. Validate complex data flows, transformations, mappings, and reconciliation processes across multiple platforms.

Test APIs, web services, services, event-driven workflows, and interoperability solutions. Establish and track quality metrics, defect trends, and release readiness criteria. Drive root cause analysis and support continuous quality improvement initiatives. Mentor QA team members and promote quality engineering best practices. Champion test automation and identify opportunities to increase automated test coverage. Lead the development and implementation of automation strategies across enterprise environments. Coordinate testing activities across multiple concurrent initiatives.

Balance strategic quality leadership with hands-on testing and automation execution.

Required Qualifications: 8+ years of Quality Assurance experience, including 3+ years in a QA Lead or Test Lead capacity. Strong experience testing enterprise data and integration solutions. Experience validating complex data transformations, data mappings, and end-to-end business workflows. Hands-on experience testing APIs, web services, and system integrations. Strong SQL and data-validation skills. Experience working within Agile delivery environments. Proven experience leading testing activities across multiple concurrent initiatives.

Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills. Ability to balance strategic quality leadership with hands-on execution. Strong QA automation experience. Experience creating automated API, integration, and regression test suites.

Preferred Qualifications: Experience with cloud-based data platforms and modern integration architectures. Experience testing interoperability solutions and enterprise data exchanges. Experience with event-driven architectures and distributed systems. Familiarity with CI/CD practices and quality engineering principles. Experience in healthcare, pharmacy, or other highly regulated industries. Experience with performance, reliability, and integration testing. Working knowledge of healthcare, clinical, and operational data domains. Understanding of healthcare interoperability concepts, data exchange workflows, and clinical data structures.

Test Automation: Demonstrated success building and scaling test automation practices across enterprise environments. Experience developing and implementing test automation strategies. Experience creating automated API, integration, and regression test suites. Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines. Experience reducing manual testing effort while improving quality and release velocity. Experience establishing automation standards, frameworks, and best practices. Experience identifying opportunities to automate data validation and end-to-end workflow testing.

Education: BS/BA in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience.

Education: Bachelors Degree