The Role
Leads enterprise software QA efforts from test strategy and requirements analysis through execution, defect triage, traceability, and release readiness. Supervises testers, coordinates cross-functional testing, manages Azure DevOps test artifacts, designs functional and automated tests, validates APIs, databases, and data pipelines, and reports quality risks. Requires extensive Playwright or Selenium automation experience, with Playwright and TypeScript preferred, plus Git, CI/CD, SQL, and enterprise QA leadership experience.
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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.
Requirements
Skill
Required / Desired
Amount
of Experience
QA/testing experience in enterprise software environments
Required
7
Years
Required
7
Years
QA Lead, Test Lead, or senior QA role with formal leadership responsibility.
Required
2
Years
Required
2
Years
Extensive hands-on Playwright or Selenium automation experience; Playwright + TypeScript strongly preferred
Required
Required
Strong BRD/FR analysis, RTM design, requirements traceability, and coverage-management experience.
Required
Required
Strong API testing and SQL/database validation experience.
Required
Required
Experience supervising testers, reviewing test artifacts, leading defect triage, and reporting to management.
Required
Required
Experience with Git, code review, CI/CD, and modern software delivery practices.
Required
Required
Playwright + TypeScript framework design and migration experience from Selenium.
Highly desired
Highly desired
Experience creating reusable fixtur· Experience with reusable fixtures, APIes, Page Objects, API clients, test-data factories, and custom reporting.EE
Highly desired
Highly desired
Performance-testing exposure and ability to coordinate specialized performance or security testing.
Highly desired
Highly desired
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
Highly desired
Highly desired
• Data pipeline / ETL validation experience.
Required
Required
Skills Required
- Seven years of QA or testing experience in enterprise software environments
- Two years of experience as a QA Lead, Test Lead, or senior QA professional with formal leadership responsibility
- Extensive hands-on Playwright or Selenium automation experience; Playwright with TypeScript strongly preferred
- Strong BRD and functional requirements analysis, requirements traceability matrix design, and coverage management experience
- Strong API testing and SQL/database validation experience
- Experience supervising testers, reviewing test artifacts, leading defect triage, and reporting to management
- Experience with Git, code review, CI/CD, and modern software delivery practices
- Playwright and TypeScript framework design and migration experience from Selenium
- Experience creating reusable fixtures, API clients, page objects, test-data factories, and custom reporting
- Performance-testing exposure and ability to coordinate specialized performance or security testing
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
- Data pipeline or ETL validation experience
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The Company
What We Do
Novalink Solutions LLC is a global consulting, engineering, and AI product development company specializing in information technology and telecommunications. They provide AI-powered products, automation platforms, intelligent workflow systems, IT consulting, managed engineering, and staff augmentation services.
