Remote QA Lead: Lead Testing, Automate & Mentor

People Partners; Manila; Remote; PHP 5,041,000 - 7,561,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent Work-from-home setup

Company-provided equipment

13th Month Pay

Leave credits

Life Beyond the Screen – WorkLifeBal

Team building and events

Job summary

PeoplePartners seeks a Software QA Lead to join one of our Australian clients and take ownership of QA delivery, testing improvements, and team development. You will balance hands-on testing with coaching Test Analysts, strengthening test automation, and collaborating with Product, Business Analysis, and Engineering teams.

You''ll help introduce smarter, risk-based testing practices, explore AI-assisted testing tools, and identify quality risks earlier in the software development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Software Quality Assurance, Software Testing, or Quality Engineering.
• Experience leading a QA team or function, including coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
• Hands-on testing of web applications, APIs, integrations, and distributed services.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining automated tests.
• Strong troubleshooting and defect investigation skills across UI, API, database, and backend service layers.
• Understanding of risk-based testing, test coverage, defect management, and software quality practices.
• Experience working in Agile software development environments.
• Ability to assess quality risks and communicate testing progress and release readiness.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience testing applications or services hosted on AWS.
• Experience using AI-assisted testing tools or techniques.
• Experience improving automated regression testing coverage, reliability, and maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily QA activities, testing priorities, and delivery across Agile sprints and releases.
• Perform functional, integration, exploratory, regression, and automated testing.
• Test web applications, APIs, integrations, and distributed services.
• Manage, coach, and mentor Test Analysts, including performance management and skills development.
• Design, maintain, and improve automated test suites and regression testing coverage.
• Implement risk-based testing strategies focused on critical business functionality.
• Investigate complex defects across UI, API, SQL databases, and backend services.
• Identify quality risks, testing dependencies, and potential release blockers.
• Collaborate with Product, Business Analysis, and Engineering teams to clarify requirements and improve testability.
• Support defect triage, root cause analysis, and release-readiness assessments.
• Evaluate AI-assisted testing tools to improve testing efficiency and coverage while maintaining reliability and security.
• Identify opportunities to improve QA processes, testing workflows, and defect prevention.
• Promote shared accountability for software quality across development teams.

Skills

QA Leadership

Team Coaching

Manual Testing

Automation Testing

Communication

Agile/Scrum

Test Strategy

Tools

AWS

AI-assisted testing tools

Automation frameworks

Job description

PeoplePartners seeks a Software QA Lead to join one of our Australian clients and take ownership of QA delivery, testing improvements, and team development. You will balance hands-on testing with coaching Test Analysts, strengthening test automation, and collaborating with Product, Business Analysis, and Engineering teams.

You''ll help introduce smarter, risk-based testing practices, explore AI-assisted testing tools, and identify quality risks earlier in the software development lifecycle.