QA Lead: Quality Strategy & Release Readiness

Integra Partners; Williamstown (NJ); Remote; USD 104,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and annual-b}

Job summary

Integra Partners is seeking a QA Lead to oversee the quality assurance practice across product delivery for a national remote-capable team. You will drive test strategy, planning, and execution, ensuring release readiness and clear visibility into quality metrics.

You will mentor QA staff, expand automation coverage, and collaborate with Product Owners and Engineering to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle, not just testing at the end.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience in software QA, including functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience leading QA execution and mentoring testers or senior resources responsible for quality outcomes.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery and the role of QA throughout discovery, development, testing, UAT, and release.
• Demonstrated ability to create test strategies and translate complex business workflows into thorough, risk-based test coverage.
• Experience managing defects and facilitating effective triage with Product and Engineering.
• Working knowledge of test automation concepts, frameworks, 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.
• Hold QA team members accountable for execution commitments, timely updates, accurate status reporting, and follow-through.
• Coach QA team members on testing discipline, risk-based thinking, root-cause analysis, and stronger ownership of outcomes.
• Develop and maintain test strategies for new features, enhancements, integrations, defects, and platform changes.
• Partner with Product Owners early in discovery and refinement to identify test scenarios, edge cases, data needs, dependencies, and acceptance criteria before development is complete.
• Ensure test cases provide adequate functional, integration, regression, negative, end-to-end, and workflow coverage based on business and technical risk.
• Coordinate test data, environments, integrations, and dependencies required for successful QA execution.
• Confirm that critical workflows can be tested end-to-end before work is considered ready for business UAT.
• Use risk-based testing to prioritize the highest-value scenarios when time or environment constraints require tradeoffs.
• Lead defect triage in partnership with Product and Engineering, ensuring severity, priority, business impact, and ownership are clear.
• Track critical defects through resolution and retest and ensure unresolved quality risks are explicitly documented before release decisions.
• Define and enforce practical QA exit criteria, including expectations for critical defect closure, regression completion, and stability.
• Provide an objective quality recommendation for releases based on test evidence and known risk.
• Identify recurring defect patterns and partner with Engineering and Product on preventive actions rather than relying only on downstream testing.

Skills

QA leadership

Test strategy & planning

Automation & CI/CD

Risk-based testing

Mentoring / coaching

SaaS / enterprise apps

Tools

Jira

Confluence

CI/CD pipelines

Observability platforms

Job description

Integra Partners is seeking a QA Lead to oversee the quality assurance practice across product delivery for a national remote-capable team. You will drive test strategy, planning, and execution, ensuring release readiness and clear visibility into quality metrics.

You will mentor QA staff, expand automation coverage, and collaborate with Product Owners and Engineering to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle, not just testing at the end.