QA Automation Lead

VIVA USA Inc; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

VIVA USA Inc. in Columbus, OH seeks a QA Lead to plan, govern, and report end-to-end testing for enterprise applications and integrations. You will supervise testers, ensure traceability, and review automation code as needed.

You will design test strategies, coordinate with business and development teams, and manage test artifacts in Azure DevOps to drive release readiness. Onsite role with strong leadership in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years QA/testing experience in enterprise software environments
• 2+ years in QA Lead or senior QA with formal leadership responsibility
• Automation experience with Playwright or Selenium; Playwright + TypeScript preferred
• Strong BRD/FR analysis, RTM design, requirements traceability, and coverage-management
• 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, and CI/CD
• Playwright + TypeScript framework design and migration from Selenium
• Experience creating reusable fixtures, API clients, test-data factories, and custom reporting
• Performance-testing exposure and coordination of performance or security testing
• Data pipeline / ETL validation experience

Responsibilities

• Lead or coordinate end-to-end testing for enterprise applications and integrations
• Develop test strategy, estimates, schedules, and execution plans
• Create and maintain Azure DevOps Test Plans, Suites, Test Cases, and defect links
• Design and execute tests including API, integration, regression, and data pipeline tests
• Lead defect triage, communicate release readiness, and manage risk

Skills

Test leadership

Requirements analysis

Automation with Playwright/TypeScript

API testing

SQL/database validation

Team supervision

CI/CD awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IS/Engineering

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

TypeScript

Git

Azure DevOps

Job 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.

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

Notes: Onsite

VIVA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants have an equal opportunity for placement, and all employees have an equal opportunity to develop on the job. This means that VIVA will not discriminate against any employee or qualified applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status