Remote QA Lead: Automation & Release Readiness

Integra Partners; Georgia; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) retirement program with company

Company-paid life insurance

Company-paid short term disability

Medical, Vision, and Dental benefits

Paid company holidays and floatingyhol

Remote Opportunities

Job summary

Integra Partners is a national durable medical equipment, prosthetic, and orthotic supplies network administrator with a remote workforce across the United States and a Michigan location. The QA Lead will drive the quality assurance practice across product delivery, ensuring testability, timely execution, and transparent defect handling, embedding quality throughout the software lifecycle.

The role emphasizes hands-on QA leadership, collaboration with Product Owners and Engineering, and a

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience in software quality assurance, including functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience leading QA execution, mentoring testers, or functioning as a senior/lead resource responsible for quality outcomes.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery and the role of QA throughout discovery, development, testing, UAT, and release.
• Demonstrated ability to create test strategies and translate complex business workflows into thorough, risk-based test coverage.
• Experience managing defects and facilitating effective triage with Product and Engineering.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to surface concerns early and communicate quality risk clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience testing complex enterprise applications, healthcare technology, claims, payments, utilization management, provider data, EDI, APIs, or other heavy integration workflows.
• Experience with automated API, UI, regression, and integration testing.
• Experience using AI-assisted development or testing tools such as Microsoft Copilot, GitHub Copilot, or comparable tools.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, test-management tools, CI/CD pipelines, observability platforms, and cloud-based application environments.
• Experience helping a QA organization mature from primarily manual testing toward a balanced automation and risk-based quality model.

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day QA practice and establish consistent expectations for test planning, execution, documentation, and release readiness.
• Ensure QA work begins when planned and that delays, blockers, environment issues, data needs, or scope gaps are identified and communicated immediately.
• Create transparency into what has been tested, what remains untested, current defects, quality risks, and confidence in release readiness.
• Hold QA team members accountable for execution commitments, timely updates, accurate status reporting, and follow-through.
• Coach QA team members on testing discipline, risk-based thinking, root-cause analysis, and stronger ownership of outcomes.
• Lead defect triage in partnership with Product and Engineering, ensuring severity, priority, business impact, and ownership are clear.
• Define and enforce practical QA exit criteria, including expectations for critical defect closure, regression completion, and stability.
• Provide an objective quality recommendation for releases based on test evidence and known risk.
• Partner with QA Automation Engineers and Engineering to increase reliable automated coverage without creating brittle or low-value automation.
• Use modern AI-assisted tools, where appropriate, to accelerate test-case creation, test-data design, automation development, and quality analysis while preserving human review and accountability.

Skills

QA leadership

mentoring

Agile/Scrum

test strategy

defect management

communication

end-to-end testing

automation testing

APIs/UI testing

AI-assisted testing

Jira/Confluence

Tools

Jira

Confluence

test-management tools

CI/CD pipelines

observability platforms

cloud environments

Job description

Integra Partners is a national durable medical equipment, prosthetic, and orthotic supplies network administrator with a remote workforce across the United States and a Michigan location. The QA Lead will drive the quality assurance practice across product delivery, ensuring testability, timely execution, and transparent defect handling, embedding quality throughout the software lifecycle.

The role emphasizes hands-on QA leadership, collaboration with Product Owners and Engineering, and a