QA Lead

Volto Consulting; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Volto Consulting is seeking an experienced QA Lead/Manager to drive testing strategies across enterprise applications in Charlotte, NC. This onsite, full-time role requires hands-on leadership of test planning, execution, and delivery across SIT, E2E, and UAT.

You will coordinate multiple technology and business teams, mentor QA engineers, implement test automation, and ensure production readiness and quality gates throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Experience leading end-to-end testing across multiple applications and platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall test strategy, planning, execution, defect management and closure.

Skills

Testing Expertise

Manual Testing

Automation

API Testing

Performance Testing

End-to-End Testing

SIT/UAT/Regression

JIRA

Confluence

Jenkins

DevOps

Cross-Functional Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Agile/Scrum

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

ALM/Quality Center

HP ALM

QMetry

Allure

Job description

QA Lead/Manager

Charlotte, NC - Onsite

Full Time

Independent Visa

Inperson Interview

Job Description

Role Purpose

We are seeking an experienced Delivery Test Lead with strong expertise in enterprise testing, Change Management, and End-to-End (E2E) Testing. The candidate will lead testing activities across complex applications, coordinate multiple technology and business teams, manage test delivery, and ensure production readiness and quality across the complete delivery lifecycle.

Must-Have Technical / Functional Skills

• Testing Expertise
• Manual: Functional, Regression, Integration, UAT, System, Sanity, Cross-Browser
• Automation: Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Cucumber (BDD), Cypress
• API Testing: Postman, REST Assured, SOAP UI, Ready API
• Performance Testing: JMeter
• Domain-Specific Testing
• ACH and Card Transaction Validations
• Kafka Messaging Validation
• ETL/Data Testing via SQL
• Programming & Tools
• Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, SQL
• Spring Boot, RESTful Services, Microservices, Hibernate, AngularJS, jQuery
• Oracle 12c, SQL Server
• Jenkins, DevOps, Git, Bitbucket, Maven, Gradle
• Test Management: JIRA, HP ALM, QMetry, Confluence
• Reporting: Allure, TestNG Reports

Roles & Responsibilities

• Demonstrated experience leading end-to-end testing activities across multiple applications, platforms, and
• dependent systems.
• Own the overall test strategy, test planning, execution, defect management, and test closure activities.
• Provide hands-on leadership and expertise in enterprise testing and delivery activities.
• Coordinate SIT, E2E, regression, integration, and UAT testing across development, QA, business, and external
• teams.
• Drive Change Management activities, including change planning, impact assessment, implementation
• coordination, and production readiness.
• Manage dependencies across upstream and downstream applications to ensure complete E2E coverage.
• Define test scope, scenarios, entry/exit criteria, schedules, and quality gates.
• Track testing progress, defects, risks, dependencies, and blockers and provide regular status updates to
• stakeholders.
• Facilitate defect triage meetings and work with development teams to drive defects through resolution and
• retesting.
• Coordinate with business, application, infrastructure, release, and production-support teams for successful
• implementation.
• Support release planning, change implementation, cutover, and post-production validation.
• Identify delivery and quality risks early and drive appropriate mitigation plans.
• Ensure testing complies with organizational quality, governance, audit, and change-control requirements.
• Provide leadership to QA/testing teams and ensure timely completion of testing milestones.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong experience as a Delivery Test Lead / Test Manager / QA Lead.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise testing.
• Strong End-to-End Testing experience involving multiple integrated applications.
• Good experience in Change Management and Release Management pro cesses.
• Strong knowledge of SIT, UAT, regression, integration, functional, and production validation testing.
• Experience in test planning, estimation, execution tracking, defect management, and reporting.
• Experience managing cross-application dependencies, risks, issues, and production readiness.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to coordinate with geographically distributed technology and business teams.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum and enterprise delivery environments.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, coordination, and leadership skills.

Preferred Skills

• BFSI/Banking domain experience.
• Experience handling large-scale, business-critical technology changes.
• Knowledge of tools such as Jira, Confluence, ALM/Quality Center, or equivalent test-management tools.
• Experience coordinating production releases, cutover activities, and post-implementation validation.

Additional Skills

• Hands on in design and develop automated testing systems and frameworks. Strong Technical knowledge in Java,
• Selenium Framework designing Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus Excellent
• problem-solving skills Ability to document and troubleshoot errors.