Remote QA Lead: Quality & Automation Champion

Integra Partners; East Windsor Hill (CT); Remote; USD 104,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

401(k)

Life insurance

Health benefits

PTO

Parental leave

Wellness programs

Career development

Job summary

Integra Partners is seeking a QA Lead to own the quality strategy across product delivery and embed quality throughout the SDLC. You will drive test planning, ensure timely execution, and enhance automation while coaching the QA team to raise quality standards.

You will collaborate with Product Owners and Engineering to surface risks early, establish test readiness, and deliver clear, risk-based release recommendations that support business outcomes.

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.
• Working knowledge of test automation concepts, frameworks, and CI/CD practices.
• 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.
• Strong ownership mindset, organization, follow-through, and comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with multiple concurrent priorities.

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.

Skills

QA leadership

Agile/Scrum

Test strategies

Automation concepts

Communication

Quality metrics

Tools

Jira

Confluence

CI/CD pipelines

Observability platforms

Cloud-based environments

Job description

Integra Partners is seeking a QA Lead to own the quality strategy across product delivery and embed quality throughout the SDLC. You will drive test planning, ensure timely execution, and enhance automation while coaching the QA team to raise quality standards.

You will collaborate with Product Owners and Engineering to surface risks early, establish test readiness, and deliver clear, risk-based release recommendations that support business outcomes.