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Quality Assurance Specialist

Novalink Solutions LLC

  • Columbus, OH
  • 3 days ago

    Highlights

    Experience creating reusable fixtur· Experience with reusable fixtures, APIes, Page Objects, API clients, test-data factories, and custom reporting. The role must bridge business requirements and technical validation, supervise other testers, ensure measurable requirements traceability, and provide management with clear release-readiness information.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationColumbus, OH
    IndustryStaffing/Employment Agencies
    Company Size20 to 49 employees
    Year Founded2004
    Websitehttp://www.novalink-solutions.com/

    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.


    Requirements

    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
    		 
    		 
    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 creating reusable fixtur· Experience with reusable fixtures, APIes, Page Objects, API clients, test-data factories, and custom reporting.EE
    		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
    		 
    		 



    About Company

    Novalink, founded in 2003 , is a leading consulting and staffing company serving clients in public and private sectors in Information Technology, Telecommunications (IT/Telecom), Technical Networks, Finance, and Administration. With government agencies as our primary clientele, our team has a proven track record of success in providing temporary personnel solutions and managing government deliverables-based projects over the past 20 years.

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