QA Lead: Enterprise Testing & Automation Expert

Main Sail LLC; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Main Sail LLC in Columbus, OH, seeks a QA Lead to plan, coordinate, govern end-to-end testing for enterprise applications and integrations. The role bridges business requirements and technical validation, supervises testers, ensures traceability, and provides release-readiness information.

You will review BRDs/FRs, design strategies, lead execution across functional, API, integration, system, and performance testing, and mentor the team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years QA/testing experience in enterprise software
• Formal leadership experience as QA Lead or Test Lead
• Strong BRD/FR analysis and test coverage management
• Strong API testing and SQL/database validation
• Experience supervising testers and reporting to management
• Experience with modern delivery practices (Git, CI/CD)
• Playwright + TypeScript experience preferred
• Performance/security testing exposure would help

Responsibilities

• Act as Test Lead for programs, releases, modules, and production-readiness efforts
• Develop the overall test strategy, scope, criteria, estimates, schedules, dependencies, and execution plan
• Assign and supervise testing work, review artifacts, mentor testers, enforce QA standards
• Coordinate with BA, Dev, PO, PM, DevOps, DBAs, and business stakeholders
• Translate requirements into TS/TC/test data and automation candidates
• Maintain traceability from requirements to tests and defects
• Create and maintain Test Plans, Suites, Cases, configurations, test runs, and defects in Azure DevOps
• Establish relationships among BRDs/FRs, TSs, TCs, executions, defects, retests, and closure
• Use ADO dashboards to communicate progress, blockers, coverage, and release readiness
• Create various test designs: Positive/Negative, Boundary, Equivalence, Decision Table, State, Data-Driven, Risk-Based
• Coordinate Smoke, Functional, API, Integration, System, Regression, End-to-End, UAT, and performance testing
• Ensure failures are reproducible and evidence is complete
• Lead or participate in defect triage and release decisions
• Ensure defects include environment/build info, steps, results, evidence, and links
• Provide evidence-based release recommendations and communicate residual quality risk

Skills

Test leadership

Automation testing

API testing

SQL/database validation

Playwright

Selenium

TypeScript

CI/CD

Git

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Git

Azure DevOps

Job description

Main Sail LLC in Columbus, OH, seeks a QA Lead to plan, coordinate, govern end-to-end testing for enterprise applications and integrations. The role bridges business requirements and technical validation, supervises testers, ensures traceability, and provides release-readiness information.

You will review BRDs/FRs, design strategies, lead execution across functional, API, integration, system, and performance testing, and mentor the team.