Remote IT QA Leader: Strategy, Automation & Quality

Carhartt; Dearborn (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

Carhartt is seeking an IT Quality Assurance Supervisor in Dearborn to lead QA across the IT organization, set standards, and drive continuous improvement. You will manage a QA team, coach staff, and partner with product, development, and delivery teams to ensure high-quality technology solutions.

Responsibilities include defining testing strategies, overseeing defect lifecycle, and advancing test automation to enhance efficiency and delivery outcomes.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of related experience in QA leadership and delivery across the software development lifecycle.
• Experience leading QA strategy, testing standards, and governance models.
• Hands-on experience with test automation tools and modern QA practices.
• Strong collaboration with product, development, and delivery teams across multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Define, implement, and evolve enterprise QA strategies, testing methodologies, frameworks, and quality standards across Carhartt's consumer-facing and business applications.
• Provide leadership and oversight for functional, integration, end-to-end, regression, performance, accessibility, security, and user acceptance testing activities.
• Establish and enforce QA processes, governance models, testing standards, and best practices to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality technology solutions.
• Partner with Product, Business, Development, Architecture, Infrastructure, and Delivery teams to align quality objectives with business priorities and strategic goals.
• Review and approve test strategies, test plans, test cases, automation frameworks, and quality deliverables to ensure completeness, consistency, and effectiveness.
• Drive the adoption and maturation of test automation, continuous testing, and quality engineering practices to improve efficiency, scalability, and test coverage.
• Oversee defect lifecycle management, including defect tracking, prioritization, root cause analysis, escalation, and resolution activities.
• Establish, monitor, and communicate quality metrics and KPIs, including defect trends, test effectiveness, automation coverage, release readiness, and overall product quality.

Skills

Leadership

QA Strategy

Test Planning

Test Automation

Stakeholder Management

Continuous Improvement

Risk Assessment

Delivery Coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in information technology discipline

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

Carhartt is seeking an IT Quality Assurance Supervisor in Dearborn to lead QA across the IT organization, set standards, and drive continuous improvement. You will manage a QA team, coach staff, and partner with product, development, and delivery teams to ensure high-quality technology solutions.

Responsibilities include defining testing strategies, overseeing defect lifecycle, and advancing test automation to enhance efficiency and delivery outcomes.