Qa Lead/manager

TEKsystems; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 76,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental

Job summary

Do it Best is seeking a QA Lead to drive test planning, coordination, and hands-on testing for assigned projects and business applications in Dallas, TX. You will own QA deliverables, mentor analysts, and coordinate testing across time zones with offshore teams to ensure release readiness.

As a senior QA leader, you will manage scope, risks, and dependencies, review plans, and ensure traceability from requirements to defects.

Qualifications

• Experience leading QA for projects and applications.
• Proven testing across functional, integration, and end-to-end.
• Experience with offshore testing teams and KPI reporting.
• Ability to mentor QA analysts and coordinate across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Own QA activities for assigned projects from planning through release support.
• Define testing scope, estimates, milestones, and criteria based on risk.
• Assign testing work and manage workloads with clear ownership.
• Track test progress, identify risks, and ensure prerequisites are met.
• Review requirements and acceptance criteria to ensure testability.

Skills

Quality assurance

Automation

Quality assurance testing

Manual testing

Agile

Test case

Test script

Test plan

Hands-on testing

Tools

Selenium

Job description

Description

The Quality Assurance (QA) Lead is responsible for leading test planning, coordination, and execution for assigned projects and business applications at Do it Best. This role owns the quality and completeness of QA deliverables and ensures testing validates business requirements, system integrations, and operational workflows. The QA Lead independently manages assigned work, provides day-to-day direction to QA analysts, and performs hands‑on testing. The role works closely with Business Analysts, project managers, developers, architects, and business stakeholders to resolve gaps, coordinate testing dependencies, and provide clear recommendations on release readiness. The role requires experience managing offshore testing teams, including coordinating work across time zones, setting clear delivery expectations, creating and managing KPI and testing metrics and understanding vendor contracts, scope, and responsibilities. In addition to delivering testing, the QA Lead mentors team members, reviews test plans and scripts, and helps establish consistent QA practices. The role identifies risks early, maintains accurate progress reporting, and focuses testing on areas with the greatest business impact. The QA Lead actively participates in Scrum ceremonies to understand requirements and proposed solutions, identify testing needs and prerequisites, and ensure QA considerations are addressed throughout development.

Skills

Quality assurance, Automation, Selenium, Quality assurance testing, Manual testing, Agile, Test case, Test script, Test plan, Manual, Test automation

Top Skills Details

Quality assurance,Automation,Selenium,Quality assurance testing,Manual testing,Agile,Test case,Test script,Test plan,Manual

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Responsibilities include:

QA Delivery Ownership

• Own QA activities for assigned projects from initial planning through test completion and release support.
• Define testing scope, estimates, resource needs, milestones, and entry and exit criteria based on business risk.
• Assign testing work, balance workloads, and make ownership and expected completion dates clear.
• Track test preparation and execution progress, identify schedule risks, and ...
• Confirm testing prerequisites, including environments, access, test data, and dependencies, with the responsible teams.

Test Planning and Execution

• Review requirements and acceptance criteria with Business Analysts to identify gaps and ensure requirements are testable.
• Develop and peer‑review test plans, scenarios, scripts, and data for functional, integration, regression, and end‑to‑end testing.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, test coverage, execution results, and defects.
• Perform hands‑on testing, review evidence, and ensure critical workflows, exception paths, and downstream impacts receive appropriate coverage.
• Retest fixes, assess regression needs, and document incomplete testing and remaining risks before recommending QA completion.

Cross‑Functional Leadership

• Coordinate testing across business and technology teams, external partners, and onshore and offshore QA resources.
• Facilitate QA working sessions focused on progress, blockers, decisions, and agreed next steps.
• Resolve unclear requirements, dependencies, and ownership with the appropriate Business Analysts, developers, and project managers.
• Communicate testing status and business impacts clearly, including preparation progress, execution results, blockers, and open defects.

Experience Level

Expert Level

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Dallas, TX.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $55.00 - $80.00/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