QA Lead: Drive End-to-End Quality & Automation

Integra Partners; Central City (KY); On-site; USD 104,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Annual bonus program

401(k) with company match

Company-paid life insurance

Health, Vision, Dental benefits

PTO

Paid parental leave

Sick time

Holidays and floating holidays

Quarterly events

Wellness programs

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Integra Partners is seeking a QA Lead to oversee quality assurance across product delivery, ensuring tests are thorough, defects surfaced early, and releases meet quality standards. You will lead day‑to‑day QA planning, strengthen automation, and coach the team while partnering with Product Owners and Engineering to embed quality throughout the lifecycle.

The role focuses on creating visibility into test readiness, progress, and risks, driving risk-based testing, and establishing practical QA

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience in software quality assurance, including functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience leading QA execution, mentoring testers, or functioning as a senior/lead resource responsible for quality outcomes.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery and the role of QA throughout discovery, development, testing, UAT, and release.
• Demonstrated ability to create test strategies and translate complex business workflows into thorough, risk-based test coverage.
• Experience managing defects and facilitating effective triage with Product and Engineering.
• Working knowledge of test automation concepts, frameworks, and CI/CD practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to surface concerns early and communicate quality risk clearly to stakeholders.
• Strong ownership mindset, organization, follow-through, and comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day QA practice and establish consistent expectations for test planning, execution, documentation, and release readiness.
• Ensure QA work begins when planned and blockers are identified and communicated immediately.
• Create transparency into what has been tested, what remains untested, current defects, quality risks, and confidence in release readiness.
• Coach QA team members on testing discipline, risk-based thinking, root-cause analysis, and ownership of outcomes.
• Lead defect triage with Product and Engineering, ensuring severity and priority are clear.
• Define and enforce practical QA exit criteria, including critical defect closure and regression completion.
• Develop and maintain test strategies for new features, enhancements, integrations, defects, and platform changes.
• Collaborate with Product Owners early to identify test scenarios and acceptance criteria before development is complete.
• Use risk-based testing to prioritize high-value scenarios when time or environment is constrained.

Skills

Software QA

QA leadership

Agile/Scrum

Test strategy

Defect management

Test automation

Communication

Ownership

Tools

Jira

Confluence

CI/CD pipelines

Observability platforms

Job description

Integra Partners is seeking a QA Lead to oversee quality assurance across product delivery, ensuring tests are thorough, defects surfaced early, and releases meet quality standards. You will lead day‑to‑day QA planning, strengthen automation, and coach the team while partnering with Product Owners and Engineering to embed quality throughout the lifecycle.

The role focuses on creating visibility into test readiness, progress, and risks, driving risk-based testing, and establishing practical QA