Remote Associate QA Lead - End-to-End Quality & Mentorship

Integrate; United States; Remote; USD 21,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Integrate is seeking an Associate Tech Lead, QA to own end-to-end quality for one or more products, with a focus on manual testing, test strategy, planning, and stakeholder communication. You will independently run QA from requirements understanding through release readiness.

This highly visible role influences release quality for platforms used by world-leading clients. It is based in India (remote) with collaboration across automation engineers to keep regression suites current.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in software QA with a strong focus on manual testing.
• Demonstrated experience owning QA for a module or project independently (planning, execution, and reporting) in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Strong skills in designing and executing: functional and integration tests, regression and smoke tests, and exploratory and scenario-based testing.
• Hands-on experience with test management and defect tracking tools (e.g., Jira, TestRail, Zephyr, or similar).
• Working knowledge of UI and API automation (e.g., Selenium/Playwright/Cypress, Postman/Rest Assured) and at least one scripting language.
• Experience working with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) for test data setup and validation.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and debugging skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to clearly articulate status, risks, and technical details to both engineering and management stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end QA for one or more modules/projects, from understanding requirements and defining test strategy through to final sign-off on release readiness.
• Design, review, and execute high-quality manual tests (functional, integration, regression, exploratory) to ensure releases are stable and user-ready.
• Identify high-value areas for automation and partner with automation engineers to keep UI and API regression suites effective and current.
• When required, contribute to and extend existing automated tests at UI and API layers using frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Rest Assured, or similar tools.
• Plan and track test activities, maintain test plans and reports, and provide clear, regular updates on progress, risks, and release readiness to management.
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and support teams on grooming, sprint planning, issue triage, and root cause analysis.
• Guide and mentor junior QA engineers on test design, execution best practices, and basic automation concepts.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

QA experience

manual testing

Agile/Scrum

test design

communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Jira

TestRail

Zephyr

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

Postman

Rest Assured

Job description

Integrate is seeking an Associate Tech Lead, QA to own end-to-end quality for one or more products, with a focus on manual testing, test strategy, planning, and stakeholder communication. You will independently run QA from requirements understanding through release readiness.

This highly visible role influences release quality for platforms used by world-leading clients. It is based in India (remote) with collaboration across automation engineers to keep regression suites current.