QA Lead

Talentgrator; United States; Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20 vacation days

Flexible start to the workday

Corporate coaching & psychologist

Regular workshops & events

Knowledge base access

Professional development support

Job summary

Talentgrator in the United States is seeking a QA Lead to drive quality across multiple teams, define testing strategies, and mentor engineers throughout the SDLC.

The role focuses on improving QA processes, building testing documentation, analyzing metrics, and integrating automation. Strong leadership, communication, and experience with API testing and SQL required.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a QA Lead or leadership role.
• Proven experience improving QA processes and standards.
• Experience defining testing strategies across multiple teams.
• Strong knowledge of test design techniques and methodologies.
• Experience with functional, integration, regression, smoke, exploratory, and acceptance testing.
• Manual API testing with Postman or Swagger.
• SQL for validating transactional data.
• Understanding of event-driven architectures and API contracts.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence and test management tools (TestRail/Zephyr/Xray).
• Familiarity with logging/monitoring tools (Kibana, Grafana).
• Automation in QA processes and integration into testing strategies.
• Strong Agile (Scrum/Kanban) knowledge.
• Distributed QA leadership and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Drive QA processes, standards, and testing approaches across teams.
• Define QA strategy, testing scope, quality standards, and risk assessment.
• Participate in planning, requirements analysis, estimation, and release readiness.
• Build and maintain testing documentation, including test strategies and quality standards.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering throughout the SDLC.
• Lead distributed QA teams, mentor engineers, and conduct technical interviews.
• Analyze QA metrics to drive continuous improvement.
• Investigate production incidents and root cause analysis.
• Drive automation integration into QA processes.
• Define automation testing approaches and tools, and integrate into QA.

Skills

QA Leadership

Test Strategy

Agile Methods

Mentoring Engineers

QA Metrics

API Testing

SQL Queries

Event-driven

Automation Integration

Test Tools

Tools

Postman

Swagger

Jira

Confluence

TestRail

Zephyr

Xray

Kibana

Grafana

Job description

• Drive and continuously improve QA processes, standards, and testing approaches across multiple teams.
• Define and implement QA strategy, testing scope, quality standards, and risk assessment.
• Participate in planning, requirements analysis, estimation, and release readiness.
• Build and maintain testing documentation, including test strategies and quality standards.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and other stakeholders throughout the SDLC.
• Lead distributed QA teams, mentor engineers, support their professional development, and conduct technical interviews.
• Experience defining, collecting, and analyzing QA metrics to drive continuous improvement.
• Collect and analyze quality metrics to identify improvement opportunities.
• Participate in production incident investigation and root cause analysis.
• Drive continuous improvements in engineering and QA practices across teams.
• Support the integration of automation into the overall QA process and testing strategy.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in a QA Lead or similar leadership role.
• Proven experience improving QA processes and implementing quality standards.
• Strong experience defining testing strategies across multiple teams and services.
• Strong knowledge of test design techniques and software testing methodologies.
• Experience with functional, integration, regression, smoke, exploratory, and acceptance testing.
• Solid experience with manual API testing using Postman, Swagger, or similar tools.
• Experience analyzing database schemas and writing SQL queries to validate transactional data.
• Understanding of event-driven architectures (Kafka, message queues) and API contract testing.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and test management tools such as TestRail, Zephyr, or Xray.
• Familiarity with logging and monitoring tools (Kibana, Grafana, ELK).
• Experience integrating automation into QA processes.
• Define automation testing approaches, levels, and tools, and drive their integration into QA processes.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
• Experience leading distributed QA teams, mentoring engineers, and supporting their professional development.
• Experience participating in production incident investigation and root cause analysis.
• Strong analytical, communication, organizational, and leadership skills.
• English level B2 or higher.

Nice to have:

• Experience with gaming or transactional systems.
• Experience with high-load distributed systems.
• Experience building QA processes from scratch.
• Experience with performance or load testing.
• Background in test automation.

Benefits

• 20 vacation days and 5 family days yearly
• Flexible start to the workday
• Support from a professional corporate coach and psychologist
• Regular internal and external activities, workshops, trips, and corporate events
• Access to our internal knowledge base, meetups, and team-building activities
• Ongoing training in new technologies and continuous professional development support

Originally posted on Himalayas