Remote QA Lead: Quality & Test Strategy Champion

Integra Partners; Virginia; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Medical, Vision, and Dental benefits

Paid holidays

Remote opportunities

Job summary

Integra Partners is seeking a QA Lead to own the day-to-day QA practice, drive test planning and execution, and advance automation coverage across product delivery. You will coach staff, partner with Product Owners and Engineering, and ensure test readiness and risk visibility throughout the lifecycle.

The role emphasizes measurable improvements in reliability, transparency, and efficiency of QA, with a focus on timely test execution and early defect surfacing. Remote opportunities are available.

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.
• Develop and maintain test strategies for new features, enhancements, integrations, defects, and platform changes.
• Partner with Product Owners early in discovery and refinement to identify test scenarios, edge cases, data needs, dependencies, and acceptance criteria before development is complete.
• Ensure test cases provide adequate functional, integration, regression, negative, end-to-end, and workflow coverage based on business and technical risk.
• Coordinate test data, environments, integrations, and dependencies required for successful QA execution.
• Confirm that critical workflows can be tested end-to-end before work is considered ready for business UAT.
• Use risk-based testing to prioritize the highest-value scenarios when time or environment constraints require tradeoffs.
• Lead defect triage in partnership with Product and Engineering, ensuring severity, priority, business impact, and ownership are clear.
• Track critical defects through resolution and retest and ensure unresolved quality risks are explicitly documented before release decisions.
• 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

QA execution

mentoring testers

Agile/Scrum

test strategies

defect triage

communication

AI-assisted testing tools

API/UI/ regression testing

Jira/Confluence

CI/CD pipelines

observability platforms

cloud environments

test automation expansion

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Test-management tools

CI/CD pipelines

Observability platforms

Cloud-based environments

Job description

Integra Partners is seeking a QA Lead to own the day-to-day QA practice, drive test planning and execution, and advance automation coverage across product delivery. You will coach staff, partner with Product Owners and Engineering, and ensure test readiness and risk visibility throughout the lifecycle.

The role emphasizes measurable improvements in reliability, transparency, and efficiency of QA, with a focus on timely test execution and early defect surfacing. Remote opportunities are available.