QA Lead

Amtex Enterprises Inc.; St. Louis, Northern (MO, KY); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Amtex Enterprises Inc. is seeking a QA Lead/QA Manager to oversee testing governance for multiple digital projects in a hybrid role based in St. Louis, MO.

The candidate will lead a hands-on team with strong testing background, balancing manual and automation work while guiding project testing paths and quality metrics. Responsibilities include executing Enterprise Testing Gates, maintaining consistent governance, and mentoring Project Testing Leads across the portfolio.

Qualifications

• Must be very strong QA Lead or QA Manager or Testing PM.
• Must have hands-on testing background to lead the team.
• Ideally progressed from tester to leadership role.
• Combo of manual and automation experience; current use of Smartbear and transition to Tosca.

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, an Ameren 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.

Skills

QA leadership

Testing governance

Test planning

Automation testing

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

Hands-on testing

Team leadership

Tools

Smartbear

Tricentis Tosca

Job description

Job Title : QA Lead
Duration: 12 months+
Location: St. Louis, MO- Hybrid-3 days/week on site in St. Louis

2 identical openings

Must be very strong QA Lead or QA Manager or Testing PM. Will need to jump in to lead team so must have strong hands on testing background. Ideally someone who started as a Tester and has moved into a leadership role.

Combo of manual/ automation experience required. Ameren currently uses Smartbear for automation, and moving to Tricentis Tosca.

• The Portfolio QA Lead provides consistent testing governance and quality oversight across every Digital project within an assigned portfolio. 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, an Ameren 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.