Remote QA Lead: Quality & Automation Strategy

Integra Partners; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 104,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Annual bonus program

401(k) retirement program with company

Company-paid life insurance

Company-paid short term disability

Medical, Vision, and Dental benefits

PTO

Paid Parental Leave

Sick Time

Paid holidays and floating holidays

Quarterly company-sponsored events

Health and wellness programs

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Integra Partners seeks a QA Lead to own the quality assurance practice across product delivery. You will drive test planning, execution, metrics, and release readiness, coaching QA teammates and embedding quality throughout the SDLC.

You will partner with Product Owners and Engineering to strengthen automation, coverage, and risk-based testing, ensuring timely, transparent defect management and strong release quality.

Qualifications

• Hands-on software QA experience spanning functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience leading QA execution, mentoring testers, and delivering quality outcomes.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum and the role of QA in discovery, development, testing, UAT, and release.
• Ability to translate complex workflows into thorough, risk-based test coverage.
• Experience managing defects and facilitating effective triage with Product and Engineering.
• Knowledge of test automation concepts, frameworks, and CI/CD practices.

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 blockers, environment issues, data needs, or scope gaps are identified and communicated immediately.
• Create transparency into what has been tested, remaining untested, defects, risks, and release confidence.
• Coach QA team members on testing discipline, risk-based thinking, and ownership of outcomes.
• Lead defect triage and provide objective quality recommendations for releases.
• Develop and maintain a pragmatic test automation strategy focused on high-value regression and critical workflows.

Skills

QA leadership

Software QA

Agile/Scrum

Test strategy

Mentoring

Tools

Jira

Confluence

CI/CD

Automation frameworks

Job description

Integra Partners seeks a QA Lead to own the quality assurance practice across product delivery. You will drive test planning, execution, metrics, and release readiness, coaching QA teammates and embedding quality throughout the SDLC.

You will partner with Product Owners and Engineering to strengthen automation, coverage, and risk-based testing, ensuring timely, transparent defect management and strong release quality.