Remote QA Lead: Elevate Testing & Quality

Integra Partners; Yorktown (VA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; 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 floating (s}

Remote Opportunities

Job summary

Integra Partners is seeking a QA Lead to own the QA practice across product delivery and ensure testability, timely execution, and high release quality. You will lead day-to-day QA planning, strengthen automation, coach team members, and collaborate with Product Owners and Engineering to embed quality throughout the software lifecycle.

The role requires visibility into test readiness, risk, and blockers, establishing QA discipline, risk-based testing, and proactive defect triage to support

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.

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 communicates delays or blockers immediately.
• Create transparency into what has been tested, what remains untested, current defects, quality risks, and confidence in release readiness.
• 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.
• Evaluate test tooling, frameworks, and processes and recommend improvements that increase efficiency, coverage, and maintainability.
• Reduce manual regression effort over time by identifying the strongest candidates for automation and incorporating automated tests into delivery pipelines where feasible.

Skills

QA Leadership

Test Strategy

Automation & Regression

Agile/Scrum

Jira/Confluence

CI/CD

Mentoring

Tools

Microsoft Copilot

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Integra Partners is seeking a QA Lead to own the QA practice across product delivery and ensure testability, timely execution, and high release quality. You will lead day-to-day QA planning, strengthen automation, coach team members, and collaborate with Product Owners and Engineering to embed quality throughout the software lifecycle.

The role requires visibility into test readiness, risk, and blockers, establishing QA discipline, risk-based testing, and proactive defect triage to support