QA Practice Lead: Governance, Metrics & Release Readiness

NTT DATA, Europe & LATAM, Branch in USA, Inc.; Washington; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA is seeking a QA Practice Lead in Washington, DC to drive the operationalization of a transversal QA practice across multiple strategic IT initiatives. You will strengthen QA governance, standardize quality processes, and coordinate specialist leads to deliver release-readiness recommendations across the portfolio.

The role requires senior leadership experience in QA governance, test strategy, API testing, data quality, and security testing, with the ability to produce auditable QA

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience establishing or operating QA Practices, QA Centers of Excellence, or transversal testing-governance capabilities.
• USA-specific regulatory experience and governance knowledge preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the review, adjustment, and operationalization of the existing QA Framework and Operational Manual.
• Define and operate the transversal QA Practice operating model.
• Establish and facilitate QA governance routines, quality reviews, Quality Gates, and escalation mechanisms.
• Coordinate four Specialist Leads and their transversal work across IT Roadmap initiatives.
• Define and continuously improve QA standards, templates, metrics, dashboards, and evidence requirements.
• Maintain a portfolio-level QA Roadmap aligned with the broader IT Roadmap.
• Monitor quality risks, defect trends, testing progress, dependencies, and release readiness.
• Coordinate with project teams, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Data, Operations, SaaS vendors, and system integrators.
• Lead executive reporting and prepare documented readiness recommendations.
• Drive knowledge transfer and support the long-term institutionalization of the QA Practice.

Skills

QA governance

QA COE

transversal testing

SaaS experience

regulated finance

test strategy

defect management

Quality Gates

release readiness

API testing

data quality

security testing

IAM

test automation

coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related

QA certifications preferred

Tools

QA tools

API testing tools

CI/CD

Enterprise reporting dashboards

Job description

NTT DATA is seeking a QA Practice Lead in Washington, DC to drive the operationalization of a transversal QA practice across multiple strategic IT initiatives. You will strengthen QA governance, standardize quality processes, and coordinate specialist leads to deliver release-readiness recommendations across the portfolio.

The role requires senior leadership experience in QA governance, test strategy, API testing, data quality, and security testing, with the ability to produce auditable QA