QA Program Lead — Enterprise Quality & Release Readiness

Addison Group; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K

Bonuses

Job summary

Addison Group is seeking a QA Program Lead in Oklahoma City to partner with business, product, project management, development, and vendor teams to define and execute a scalable quality strategy across multiple workstreams and product areas.

The ideal candidate will bring extensive QA leadership, quality engineering expertise, test automation knowledge, and strong stakeholder communication within Agile and SAFe delivery environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Quality Assurance and Quality Engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading enterprise-scale QA programs.
• Experience leading multi-vendor delivery programs.
• Strong knowledge of Agile, Scrum, and SAFe methodologies.
• Hands-on understanding of test automation frameworks and CI/CD practices.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar ALM platforms.
• Experience supporting large-scale business transformation initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management, program leadership, and executive communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute enterprise Quality Engineering strategies across multiple workstreams and product areas.
• Lead QA Leads, SDETs, and vendor QA partners.
• Establish quality governance, quality gates, risk tracking, and release readiness criteria.
• Lead quality planning across SIT, E2E, UAT, production readiness, and go-live support.
• Manage quality risks, dependencies, assumptions, and mitigation plans.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, test cases, automation assets, defects, and production outcomes.
• Collaborate with implementation partners, system integrators, and third-party vendors.
• Review vendor test strategies, automation plans, and quality deliverables to ensure alignment with program expectations.
• Establish ownership models and RACI frameworks across internal and external teams.
• Coordinate quality activities across Development, Business Analysis, Product, Security, and Operations.
• Oversee performance, security, accessibility, reliability, and operational readiness testing strategies.
• Ensure appropriate test environments, tools, and test data strategies are established.
• Define production monitoring and release validation approaches.
• Present quality status, risks, trends, and release recommendations to leadership.
• Lead go/no-go discussions and provide quality signoff recommendations.

Skills

QA leadership

Enterprise QA

Multi-vendor delivery

Agile SAFe

Test automation

CI/CD

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

ALM platforms

Job description

Addison Group is seeking a QA Program Lead in Oklahoma City to partner with business, product, project management, development, and vendor teams to define and execute a scalable quality strategy across multiple workstreams and product areas.

The ideal candidate will bring extensive QA leadership, quality engineering expertise, test automation knowledge, and strong stakeholder communication within Agile and SAFe delivery environments.