Quality Assurance Test Lead

Strategic Staffing Solutions; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Staffing Solutions is seeking a Portfolio QA Lead for a 12-month W2 contract in St. Louis, MO. The role oversees testing governance across the portfolio and ensures Enterprise Testing Gates are applied consistently, independent of day-to-day test execution.

Mentoring of Project Testing Leads is required. The position focuses on ensuring requirements, scope, and acceptance criteria are ready for testing readiness, validating designs for various testing domains, and driving adoption of

Qualifications

• Experience leading QA governance across multiple projects.
• Ability to drive testing standards across portfolio.
• Proven mentoring and coaching of testing leads.

Responsibilities

• Execute the five Enterprise Testing Gates for all Project Testing Leads within the assigned portfolio.
• Provide a single, consistent governance point across every project in the portfolio.
• Keep gate decisions independent of day-to-day project test execution and prevent self-certification; where the Portfolio QA Lead also serves as Project Testing Lead, a coworker Testing Lead executes the gates instead.
• Confirm requirements, scope, and acceptance criteria are ready to support testing at the Test Readiness Assessment.
• Verify the solution design supports functional, integration, performance, security, and resiliency testing.
• Confirm automation and long-term regression readiness before Build completes.
• Validate environments, data, integrations, and test assets prior to SIT entry.
• Assess testing completion, defect status, and deployment readiness prior to go-live.
• Ensure ETS standards are adopted on all portfolio projects above the small project threshold.
• Mentor, onboard, and support Project Testing Leads across the portfolio.
• Drive adoption of ETS dashboards and reporting to give leadership portfolio-level quality visibility.
• Identify where test automation and performance testing should be leveraged across the portfolio.
• Escalate cross-project testing risks, issues, and resource needs to ETS leadership.

Skills

QA governance

Testing leadership

Portfolio management

Mentoring

Test planning

Tools

ETS dashboards

Job description

Strategic Staffing Solutions is currently looking for a Portfolio QA Lead, a W2 contract opportunity.

This is a W-2 contract opportunity, and candidates must be able to work on our W-2 only. NO C2C or 1099.

Employment Type: W2 Only (No C2C or 1099)

Duration: 12-Month W2 Contract

Location: St. Louis, Missouri, 63103

The Portfolio QA Lead provides consistent testing governance and quality oversight across every digital project within an assigned portfolio. Filled by a coworker or consultant partner, this role owns the execution of the Enterprise Testing Gates and ensures testing standards are applied uniformly regardless of which team or vendor delivers the project.

Job Description:

• Execute the five Enterprise Testing Gates for all Project Testing Leads within the assigned portfolio.
• Provide a single, consistent governance point across every project in the portfolio.
• Keep gate decisions independent of day-to-day project test execution and prevent self-certification; where the Portfolio QA Lead also serves as Project Testing Lead, a coworker Testing Lead executes the gates instead.
• Confirm requirements, scope, and acceptance criteria are ready to support testing at the Test Readiness Assessment.
• Verify the solution design supports functional, integration, performance, security, and resiliency testing.
• Confirm automation and long-term regression readiness before Build completes.
• Validate environments, data, integrations, and test assets prior to SIT entry.
• Assess testing completion, defect status, and deployment readiness prior to go-live.
• Ensure ETS standards are adopted on all portfolio projects above the small project threshold.
• Mentor, onboard, and support Project Testing Leads across the portfolio.
• Drive adoption of ETS dashboards and reporting to give leadership portfolio-level quality visibility.
• Identify where test automation and performance testing should be leveraged across the portfolio.
• Escalate cross-project testing risks, issues, and resource needs to ETS leadership.