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

Integra Partners; Oklahoma City (OK); Remote; USD 104,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and annual -?

401(k) retirement program with company

Job summary

Integra Partners is seeking a QA Lead to oversee the quality assurance practice across product delivery, ensuring testability, timely test execution, and transparent reporting. You will drive day-to-day QA planning, strengthen automation, coach team members, and partner with Product Owners and Engineering to embed quality throughout the SDLC.

This role defines test approaches, maintains quality metrics, leads defect triage, and escalates issues when release quality is at risk.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on software QA experience across functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience leading QA execution, mentoring testers, or serving as a senior/lead QA resource.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum and embedding QA throughout discovery, development, testing, and release.
• Ability to translate complex workflows into thorough, risk-based test coverage.
• Experience with defect management and triage with Product and Engineering.
• Working knowledge of test automation concepts and CI/CD practices.

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 that delays, blockers, environment issues, data needs, or scope gaps are identified and communicated immediately.
• Create transparency into what has been tested, what remains untested, current defects, quality risks, and confidence in release readiness.
• Lead defect triage in partnership with Product and Engineering, ensuring severity, priority, business impact, and ownership are clear.
• Develop and maintain a pragmatic test automation strategy focused on high-value regression, repeatable workflows, integrations, and business-critical scenarios.

Skills

QA leadership

Agile/Scrum

Test strategy

Mentoring

Quality metrics

Communication

Risk-based testing

CI/CD

Automation focus

Tools

Jira

Confluence

CI/CD tooling

Observability platforms

AI-assisted testing tools

Job description

Integra Partners is seeking a QA Lead to oversee the quality assurance practice across product delivery, ensuring testability, timely test execution, and transparent reporting. You will drive day-to-day QA planning, strengthen automation, coach team members, and partner with Product Owners and Engineering to embed quality throughout the SDLC.

This role defines test approaches, maintains quality metrics, leads defect triage, and escalates issues when release quality is at risk.