QA Lead: End-to-End Testing & Global Team Leadership

Kforce Inc; Fort Wayne (IN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Kforce is seeking an experienced QA Lead in Fort Wayne, IN to own QA delivery from planning through release, coordinating onshore and offshore resources. You will lead test strategy, plans, and risk management while mentoring QA analysts and driving quality across critical applications.

The role requires hands-on leadership, strong QA fundamentals, and the ability to collaborate with BI, development, and business stakeholders to ensure test coverage and timely delivery.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software QA experience.
• 2+ years leading testing activities or QA teams.
• Experience coordinating offshore testing across multiple time zones.
• Experience developing and managing QA KPIs, metrics, and reporting.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum and the software development lifecycle.
• Strong communication, leadership, facilitation, and risk-management skills.
• Ability to translate business requirements and acceptance criteria into effective test coverage.

Responsibilities

• Own QA strategy, planning, execution, defect management, and release support for assigned initiatives
• Lead and coordinate onshore and offshore QA resources, including priorities, workloads, timelines, and deliverables
• Develop and review functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end test plans and test cases
• Perform hands-on testing while providing day-to-day leadership to QA analysts
• Establish and track QA KPIs and testing metrics, providing clear visibility into progress, quality, risks, and defects
• Partner with Business Analysts, developers, architects, project managers, and business stakeholders to ensure requirements are testable and appropriately covered
• Coordinate test environments, test data, dependencies, and other testing prerequisites
• Lead defect triage, retesting, and resolution tracking
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and proactively identify testing risks and dependencies
• Mentor QA team members and help establish consistent testing standards and best practices
• Provide clear, evidence-based recommendations around release readiness and residual risk
• Coordinate with third-party vendors and understand expectations related to contracts, scope, responsibilities, and delivery

Skills

QA leadership

Offshore testing coordination

Azure DevOps

Jira

SQL & API testing

Agile/Scrum

Test planning & execution

Communication & leadership

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

Job description

Kforce is seeking an experienced QA Lead in Fort Wayne, IN to own QA delivery from planning through release, coordinating onshore and offshore resources. You will lead test strategy, plans, and risk management while mentoring QA analysts and driving quality across critical applications.

The role requires hands-on leadership, strong QA fundamentals, and the ability to collaborate with BI, development, and business stakeholders to ensure test coverage and timely delivery.