Senior QA Lead: End-to-End Testing & Automation (Hybrid)

RAMPQuest; Indianapolis (IN); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Knowledge Services is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst to own the end-to-end quality strategy for a State of Indiana project. You will lead test architecture, automation, UAT coordination, and release sign-off in a hybrid Indianapolis setting.

The role requires strong hands-on QA, CI/CD integration, SQL validation, and audit-defensible documentation. Collaboration with state stakeholders and mentoring junior staff are essential components of this leadership position.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of QA experience; minimum 2 years in a senior or lead capacity on large-scale government IT projects.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing test automation frameworks (UI and/or API) in a production delivery environment.
• Proven CI/CD pipeline integration experience (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent).
• Experience leading UAT coordination with non-technical government end users.
• Proficiency in SQL for backend data validation and integrity testing.
• Track record of audit-defensible test documentation (test strategies, test plans, RTMs, defect logs, test summary reports).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end quality strategy — test architecture, automation framework design, defect management, and release sign-off.
• Communicate quality risk clearly to state agency stakeholders in a technical leadership role.
• Design and own the master test strategy across functional, regression, integration, performance, security, and UAT workstreams.
• Define quality gates, entry/exit criteria, and go/no-go frameworks for sprint releases and major deployments.
• Lead functional, integration, end-to-end, and exploratory testing across concurrent workstreams.
• Execute performance/load testing to validate scalability under peak usage.
• Deliver QA metrics, test execution reports, and release readiness summaries to leadership.

Skills

QA expertise

Test automation UI/API

CI/CD integration

SQL data validation

UAT coordination

Stakeholder communication

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/SE

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

Postman

RestAssured

SoapUI

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Job description

Knowledge Services is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst to own the end-to-end quality strategy for a State of Indiana project. You will lead test architecture, automation, UAT coordination, and release sign-off in a hybrid Indianapolis setting.

The role requires strong hands-on QA, CI/CD integration, SQL validation, and audit-defensible documentation. Collaboration with state stakeholders and mentoring junior staff are essential components of this leadership position.