AM--Brian Gross
Onsite interviews at 30 W Spring Street Columbus, Ohio 43215
Work will be onsite same location.
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.
Required/Desired Skills
| Skill | Required /Desired | Amount | of Experience |
|---|
| QA/testing experience in enterprise software environments | Required | 7 | Years |
| QA Lead, Test Lead, or senior QA role with formal leadership responsibility. | Required | 2 | Years |
| Extensive hands-on Playwright or Selenium automation experience; Playwright + TypeScript strongly preferred | Required | 0 | |
| Strong BRD/FR analysis, RTM design, requirements traceability, and coverage-management experience. | Required | 0 | |
| Strong API testing and SQL/database validation experience. | Required | 0 | |
| Experience supervising testers, reviewing test artifacts, leading defect triage, and reporting to management. | Required | 0 | |
| Experience with Git, code review, CI/CD, and modern software delivery practices. | Required | 0 | |
| Playwright + TypeScript framework design and migration experience from Selenium. | Highly desired | 0 | |
| Experience creating reusable fixtur Experience with reusable fixtures, APIes, Page Objects, API clients, test-data factories, and custom reporting.EE | Highly desired | 0 | |
| Performance-testing exposure and ability to coordinate specialized performance or security testing. | Highly desired | 0 | |
| Experience with parallel execution and worker-safe test design. | Highly desired | 0 | |
| Experience combining UI, API, and database validation in a single business workflow. | Highly desired | 0 | |
| Docker/container familiarity, performance-testing exposure, or accessibility-testing exposure. | Highly desired | 0 | |
| Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience | Highly desired | 0 | |
Questions
| No. | Question |
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| Question1 | Do you understand, and will abide by, the provision in your subcontract with OST that it is PROHIBITED for government equipment to be taken or used outside of the United States by your contractors? The consequences of this occurring can and will result in repercussions to you, the prime vendor, regardless if the candidate works for a sub-vendor of yours. It will also result in immediate termination of the contractor, and make them ineligible for rehire in the program. |
| Question2 | Where does your candidate currently reside? |
| Question3 | Selected candidate will be required to have a BCI Fingerprint check performed. Does your candidate agree? |
| Question4 | Resource will be required to work onsite: OIC location (William Green Building 8th floor, 30 West Spring Street, Columbus, Ohio). Do you agree with this requirement? |