Qa Lead Consultant

TEKsystems; Columbus (OH); Hybrid; USD 48,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) Retirement Plan

Job summary

TEKsystems in Columbus, OH seeks an QA Automation Lead to own test strategy, governance, and automation direction. The role combines leadership with hands-on UI/API automation, ensuring end-to-end coverage and release readiness.

You will supervise testers, bridge business & technical validation, and drive automation with Playwright/Selenium within Azure DevOps. This is a hybrid contract position based in Columbus.

Qualifications

• Lead test strategy and governance with measurable requirements traceability.
• Bridge business requirements with technical validation; supervise testers.
• Hands-on automation with Playwright/Selenium when needed.

Responsibilities

• Act as Test Lead for programs, releases, modules, and production-readiness.
• Develop test strategy, scope, entry/exit criteria, estimates, schedules, dependencies.
• Assign and supervise testing work; mentor testers; enforce QA standards.
• Coordinate with BAs, Developers, POs, PMs, DevOps, DBAs, stakeholders.
• Review BRDs/FRs/user stories; ensure traceability from requirements to tests.
• Create/maintain Azure DevOps Test Plans, Test Suites, Test Cases, and runs.
• Lead defect triage; provide release quality risk and evidence-based recommendations.
• Design and execute API, UI, integration, regression, and data tests.

Skills

Quality assurance

Test case

Test automation

Selenium

Playwright

Automation

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

TypeScript

Job description

Description

QA Automation Lead - The QA Lead owns test strategy, requirements coverage, test governance, execution oversight, defect management, reporting, environment readiness, and automation direction. This is a leadership role that also requires strong hands‑on technical capability in modern UI/API automation.

1. 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.

Automation Leadership and Hands‑On Capability

Extensive Playwright experience is strongly preferred. Advanced Selenium experience may be accepted when the candidate can demonstrate equivalent automation engineering depth and the ability to transition quickly to Playwright.

Design, review, troubleshoot, and when necessary implement Playwright or Selenium automation.

Understand and apply fixtures, browser contexts, authentication/role isolation, Page Object Model (POM), reusable API clients, data factories, setup/teardown, and parallel‑safe execution.

Implement and review UI + API hybrid tests where the UI performs the action and API/database validation is used as the source of truth.

Use deterministic synchronization and Playwright auto‑waiting/assertions; avoid arbitrary sleeps such as page.Wait for timeout as a synchronization strategy.

Review automation pull requests for correctness, maintainability, test isolation, error handling, naming, duplication, and framework standards.

Understand network interception, request/response validation, traces, screenshots, video, reporting, retries, tags, and environment configuration.

Integrate automated tests into CI/CD quality gates and distinguish product defects from automation, environment, network, and test‑data failures.

API, Database, and Data Pipeline Testing

Strong REST API testing experience across GET, POST, PUT/PATCH, and DELETE operations.

Validate headers, authorization, request bodies, response contracts, business result codes, error messages, concurrency/version behavior, and negative paths.

Understand that application authorization may be represented by business‑result values (for example HTTP 200 with a denial result) and must be tested against the documented application contract.

Use SQL to validate persisted data, joins, filters, aggregates, referential integrity, backend state, and source-to-target outcomes.

Validate ETL/ELT and data pipelines including transformation rules, record‑count reconciliation, nulls, duplicates, rejected records, incremental loads, data freshness, restart/recovery, and source-to-target accuracy.

Skills

Quality assurance, Quality assurance testing, Test case, Test automation, Selenium, Playwright, Automation

Top Skills Details

Quality assurance,Quality assurance testing,Test case,Test automation

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Playwright + TypeScript framework design and migration experience from Selenium.

Experience with reusable fixtures, API clients, Page Object Models, test‑data factories, and parallel test execution.

Experience Level

Entry Level

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Columbus, OH.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $35.00 - $50.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job‑related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre‑tax and Roth post‑tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long‑term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a hybrid position in Columbus,OH.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Aug 31, 2026.

About TEKsystems

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full‑Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real‑world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Massachusetts Lie Detector

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.