Portfolio QA Lead

Strategic Staffing Solutions; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Staffing Solutions seeks a Portfolio QA Lead to govern testing across a broad portfolio of digital projects. This role ensures Enterprise Testing Gates are executed consistently, with uniform quality standards, independent gate decisions, and strong leadership across teams and vendors.

The successful candidate will mentor Project Testing Leads, drive ETS dashboards for portfolio visibility, verify designs for functional, performance, security testing, and ensure readiness before

Qualifications

• Ability to provide governance across multiple projects.
• Experience overseeing testing gates and quality standards.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Execute the Enterprise Testing Gates for all Project Testing Leads.
• Provide a single governance point across every project in the portfolio.
• Mentor, onboard, and support Project Testing Leads across the portfolio.
• Drive adoption of ETS dashboards and reporting for portfolio visibility.
• Escalate cross-project testing risks and resource needs to ETS leadership.

Skills

Test governance

Quality oversight

Leadership

Tools

ETS dashboards

Job description

Portfolio QA Lead

Employment Type:W2 Only (No C2C or 1099)

Duration:12-Month W2 Contract

Location: St. Louis, Missouri, 63103

Strategic Staffing Solutions is currently looking for a Portfolio QA Lead, a W2 contract opportunity.

This is a W-2 contract opportunity, and candidates must be able to work on our W-2 only. NO C2C or 1099.

Job Description:

The Portfolio QA Lead provides consistent testing governance and quality oversight across every digital project within an assigned portfolio. Filled by a coworker or consultant partner, this role owns the execution of the Enterprise Testing Gates and ensures testing standards are applied uniformly regardless of which team or vendor delivers the project.

Key Responsibilities:

• Execute the five Enterprise Testing Gates for all Project Testing Leads within the assigned portfolio.
• Provide a single, consistent governance point across every project in the portfolio.
• Keep gate decisions independent of day-to-day project test execution and prevent self-certification; where the Portfolio QA Lead also serves as Project Testing Lead, a coworker Testing Lead executes the gates instead.
• Confirm requirements, scope, and acceptance criteria are ready to support testing at the Test Readiness Assessment.
• Verify the solution design supports functional, integration, performance, security, and resiliency testing.
• Confirm automation and long-term regression readiness before Build completes.
• Validate environments, data, integrations, and test assets prior to SIT entry.
• Assess testing completion, defect status, and deployment readiness prior to go-live.
• Ensure ETS standards are adopted on all portfolio projects above the small project threshold.
• Mentor, onboard, and support Project Testing Leads across the portfolio.
• Drive adoption of ETS dashboards and reporting to give leadership portfolio-level quality visibility.
• Identify where test automation and performance testing should be leveraged across the portfolio.
• Escalate cross-project testing risks, issues, and resource needs to ETS leadership.