Quality Assurance Specialist (Onsite)

Main Sail LLC; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Main Sail LLC in Columbus, OH, seeks a QA Lead to plan, coordinate, govern end-to-end testing for enterprise applications and integrations. The role bridges business requirements and technical validation, supervises testers, ensures traceability, and provides release-readiness information.

You will review BRDs/FRs, design strategies, lead execution across functional, API, integration, system, and performance testing, and mentor the team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years QA/testing experience in enterprise software
• Formal leadership experience as QA Lead or Test Lead
• Strong BRD/FR analysis and test coverage management
• Strong API testing and SQL/database validation
• Experience supervising testers and reporting to management
• Experience with modern delivery practices (Git, CI/CD)
• Playwright + TypeScript experience preferred
• Performance/security testing exposure would help

Responsibilities

• Act as Test Lead for programs, releases, modules, and production-readiness efforts
• Develop the overall test strategy, scope, criteria, estimates, schedules, dependencies, and execution plan
• Assign and supervise testing work, review artifacts, mentor testers, enforce QA standards
• Coordinate with BA, Dev, PO, PM, DevOps, DBAs, and business stakeholders
• Translate requirements into TS/TC/test data and automation candidates
• Maintain traceability from requirements to tests and defects
• Create and maintain Test Plans, Suites, Cases, configurations, test runs, and defects in Azure DevOps
• Establish relationships among BRDs/FRs, TSs, TCs, executions, defects, retests, and closure
• Use ADO dashboards to communicate progress, blockers, coverage, and release readiness
• Create various test designs: Positive/Negative, Boundary, Equivalence, Decision Table, State, Data-Driven, Risk-Based
• Coordinate Smoke, Functional, API, Integration, System, Regression, End-to-End, UAT, and performance testing
• Ensure failures are reproducible and evidence is complete
• Lead or participate in defect triage and release decisions
• Ensure defects include environment/build info, steps, results, evidence, and links
• Provide evidence-based release recommendations and communicate residual quality risk

Skills

Test leadership

Automation testing

API testing

SQL/database validation

Playwright

Selenium

TypeScript

CI/CD

Git

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Git

Azure DevOps

Job description

The QA Lead will plan, coordinate, govern, and report the end-to-end testing effort for enterprise applications and integrations. The role must 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.

Core Responsibilities:

• 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.

Requirements:

• QA/testing experience in enterprise software environments. - Required 7 Years
• QA Lead, Test Lead, or senior QA role with formal leadership responsibility. - Required 2 Years
• 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. - Required
• 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.EE. - 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. - Highly desired
• Data pipeline / ETL validation experience. - Required

Onsite - Must live in Ohio.