Quality Assurance Specialist

Solü Technology; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Solü Technology is seeking a QA Lead to plan, govern, and report end-to-end testing for enterprise apps and integrations. You will supervise testers, ensure traceability from requirements to tests and defects, and review/write automation code as needed.

The role requires strong leadership, BRD/FR analysis, API/SQL validation, and experience with Playwright or Selenium automation. Local candidates only for on-site work in a collaborative team setting.

Qualifications

• 7+ years QA/testing in enterprise software.
• 2+ years as QA Lead or senior QA with leadership.
• Extensive automation with Playwright or Selenium.
• Playwright + TypeScript strongly preferred.
• Strong BRD/FR analysis, RTM design, and traceability.
• Strong API testing and SQL validation.
• Experience supervising testers and leading defect triage.
• Experience with Git, code review, CI/CD, and modern delivery practices.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Data pipeline / ETL validation experience.

Responsibilities

• Act as Test Lead for programs, releases, modules, and production-readiness efforts.
• Develop the overall test strategy, scope, entry/exit criteria, estimates, schedules, dependencies, and execution plan.
• Assign and supervise testing work, review test artifacts, mentor testers, and enforce QA standards.
• Coordinate with BAs, Developers, Product Owners, PMs, DevOps, DBAs, and stakeholders.
• Create and maintain Test Plans, Test Suites, Test Cases, configurations, test runs, evidence, and defect links in Azure DevOps.
• Establish consistent relationships among BRDs/FRs, TSs, TCs, executions, defects, retests, and closure.
• Use queries and dashboards to communicate progress, blockers, defects, coverage, and release readiness.
• Create and review various test designs: Positive/Negative, API, Integration, Regression, UAT, etc.
• Lead defect triage and provide evidence-based release recommendations.

Skills

QA testing

QA lead

Automation Playwright

Automation Selenium

BRD/FR analysis

API testing

SQL/database

Test supervision

Git & CI/CD

Playwright TS

Performance testing

Data validation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

TypeScript

Azure DevOps

CI/CD tooling

SQL tooling

Job description

Employment Requirements

This opportunity is not open to C2C relationships or visa sponsorship.

This opportunity is for local candidates only.

Job Description

Solu is seeking a QA Lead to join our team. The QA Lead will plan, coordinate, govern, and report the end-to-end testing effort for enterprise applications and integrations. This role will bridge business requirements and technical validation, supervise other testers, ensure measurable requirements traceability, and provide management with clear release-readiness information. The QA Lead must also be capable of reviewing and writing automation code when needed.

Responsibilities

• Test Leadership and Governance
  
  
  
  • Act as Test Lead for assigned programs, releases, modules, and production-readiness efforts.
  
  
  • Develop the overall test strategy, scope, entry/exit criteria, estimates, schedules, dependencies, and execution plan.
  
  
  • Assign and supervise testing work, review test artifacts, mentor testers, and enforce QA standards.
  
  
  • Coordinate with Business Analysts, Developers, Product Owners, Project Managers, DevOps, DBAs, and business stakeholders.
  
  
  
  


• Requirements Analysis and Coverage
  
  
  
  • Review BRDs, Functional Requirements (FRs), user stories, acceptance criteria, workflow diagrams, interface specifications, data mappings, and API specifications.
  
  
  • Identify missing, ambiguous, conflicting, or untestable requirements before execution begins.
  
  
  • Translate requirements into Test Scenarios (TS), Test Cases (TC), test data, preconditions, expected results, and automation candidates.
  
  
  • Drive complete, measurable traceability from requirements to executed tests and defects.
  
  
  
  


• Azure DevOps Test Plans
  
  
  
  • Create and maintain Test Plans, Test Suites, Test Cases, configurations, test runs, evidence, and defect links in Azure DevOps (ADO).
  
  
  • Establish consistent work-item relationships among BRDs/FRs, TSs, TCs, executions, defects, retests, and closure.
  
  
  • Use ADO queries and dashboards to communicate progress, blockers, defects, coverage, and release readiness.
  
  
  
  


• Test Design and Execution
  
  
  
  • Create and review Positive, Negative, Boundary Value, Equivalence Partitioning, Decision Table, State Transition, Role/Authorization, Data-Driven, and Risk-Based tests.
  
  
  • Coordinate and participate in Smoke, Functional, API, Integration, System, Regression, End-to-End, UAT, Performance-support, Database, and Data Pipeline testing.
  
  
  • Ensure failures are reproducible, evidence is complete, and test results are defensible.
  
  
  
  


• Defect and Release Management
  
  
  
  • Lead or participate in defect triage and severity/priority decisions.
  
  
  • Ensure defects contain environment/build information, reproducible steps, expected/actual results, evidence, and requirement/test links.
  
  
  • Provide evidence-based release recommendations and clearly communicate residual quality risk.
  
  
  
  

Qualifications

• Required 7 years: QA/testing experience in enterprise software environments.


• Required 2 years: QA Lead, Test Lead, or senior QA role with formal leadership responsibility.


• Required: Extensive hands‑on Playwright or Selenium automation experience; Playwright + TypeScript strongly preferred.


• Required: Strong BRD/FR analysis, RTM design, requirements traceability, and coverage-management experience.


• Required: Strong API testing and SQL/database validation experience.


• Required: Experience supervising testers, reviewing test artifacts, leading defect triage, and reporting to management.


• Required: Experience with Git, code review, CI/CD, and modern software delivery practices.


• Highly desired: Playwright + TypeScript framework design and migration experience from Selenium.


• Highly desired: Experience creating reusable fixtur· Experience with reusable fixtures, APIes, Page Objects, API clients, test-data factories, and custom reporting.


• Highly desired: Performance-testing exposure and ability to coordinate specialized performance or security testing.


• Highly desired: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.


• Required: Data pipeline / ETL validation experience.

*Solü Technology Partners provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or genetics.