Remote QA Lead: Strategic Quality & Release Readiness

Integra Partners; Nashville (TN); Remote; USD 104,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

401(k) match

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Medical benefits

PTO

Parental Leave

Sick Time

Holidays

Wellness programs

Career development

Job summary

Integra Partners is seeking a QA Lead to own and elevate the QA function across the software lifecycle. You will define testing strategies, guide defect management, and partner with Product and Engineering to ensure release readiness and risk-based quality decisions.

Responsibilities include leading QA execution, mentoring testers, and driving automation initiatives with a strong emphasis on risk-based coverage and end-to-end testing.

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.
• 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 critical workflows can be tested end-to-end before business UAT.
• Use risk-based testing to prioritize high-value scenarios when time/environment constraints require trade-offs.
• 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 document quality risks before release decisions.
• Define and enforce practical QA exit criteria, including expectations for defect closure, regression completion, and stability.
• Provide objective quality recommendations for releases based on test evidence and known risk.
• Identify recurring defect patterns and partner with Engineering and Product on preventive actions.

Skills

QA leadership

Agile/Scrum

Automation concepts

CI/CD

Communication

Ownership mindset

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Test management tools

CI/CD pipelines

Observability platforms

Job description

Integra Partners is seeking a QA Lead to own and elevate the QA function across the software lifecycle. You will define testing strategies, guide defect management, and partner with Product and Engineering to ensure release readiness and risk-based quality decisions.

Responsibilities include leading QA execution, mentoring testers, and driving automation initiatives with a strong emphasis on risk-based coverage and end-to-end testing.