QA Lead: Quality Strategy & Release Readiness

Integra Partners; Clifton (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) retirement program

Company-paid life insurance

Company-paid short term disability

Medical, Vision, and Dental

Paid holidays and floating holidays

Remote Opportunities

Job summary

Integra Partners is seeking a QA Lead to drive the quality assurance practice across product delivery, ensuring testability, timely execution, and transparent reporting. You will lead QA planning, strengthen automation, and coach the team to embed quality throughout the SDLC.

You will create visibility into test readiness, progress, risk, and blockers, owning QA discipline, test approaches, and metrics while escalating issues early to ensure high-quality releases.

Qualifications

• Hands-on QA leadership with accountability for test planning and release readiness.
• Experience embedding quality across SDLC and driving automation coverage.
• Strong skills in risk-based testing, metrics, and early defect triage.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day QA planning and execution across features and releases.
• Partner with Product Owners and Engineering to define test scenarios and acceptance criteria.
• Increase automation coverage and regression testing while avoiding brittle automation.
• Coach testers and promote QA discipline, risk-based thinking, and ownership.
• Provide clear QA readiness status, metrics, and actionable release recommendations.

Skills

QA Leadership

Test Strategy

Automation

Agile/Scrum

Defect Management

API Testing

CI/CD

Jira

Confluence

Tools

Jira

Confluence

CI/CD Pipelines

Observability Platforms

Cloud-based Environments

Job description

Integra Partners is seeking a QA Lead to drive the quality assurance practice across product delivery, ensuring testability, timely execution, and transparent reporting. You will lead QA planning, strengthen automation, and coach the team to embed quality throughout the SDLC.

You will create visibility into test readiness, progress, risk, and blockers, owning QA discipline, test approaches, and metrics while escalating issues early to ensure high-quality releases.