Senior QA Lead: Test Strategy, Automation & Mentorship

Tata Consultancy Services; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary Annual Incentive

Medical Coverage

Parental Leave

Commuter Benefits

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in Bellevue is seeking a senior QA leader to drive testing strategy and oversight across multiple projects. You will lead a team of QA engineers and automation testers, define metrics, and align testing with product timelines.

Role requires deep hands-on QA experience, strong leadership, and a track record in implementing automated testing and robust QA governance. This position is based in the United States with on-site work in Bellevue, WA.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in Software QA/Testing with 4+ years in a QA leadership role.
• Strong knowledge of test management methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Hybrid).
• Hands-on with JIRA, QTest or TestRail for test management and defect tracking.
• Automation frameworks/tools: Selenium, TestNG, Rest Assured or similar.
• Experience with API, Functional, Regression, Performance and UAT testing strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of QA engineers and automation testers.
• Define and implement test strategy, plans, and quality metrics.
• Coordinate with product owners, developers, and stakeholders on testing scope.
• Oversee planning, execution, and defect management across test types.
• Drive automation adoption to increase coverage and efficiency.
• Monitor KPIs, provide status reports and risk assessments to leadership.
• Ensure test environments, data, and tools are available and managed.
• Manage resource planning, budgeting, and vendor/offshore coordination as needed.
• Champion test governance and process standardization across QA.
• Facilitate defect triage and drive root-cause analysis for production issues.

Skills

QA leadership

Test management

Agile Scrum Waterfall Hybrid

JIRA QTest TestRail

Selenium TestNG Rest Assured

APIs Testing

CI/CD Jenkins Azure DevOps Git

SQL data validation

Leadership & stakeholder communication

Analytical problem solving

Education

Bachelors in Computer Science

Tools

JIRA

QTest

TestRail

Selenium

TestNG

Rest Assured

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Git

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services in Bellevue is seeking a senior QA leader to drive testing strategy and oversight across multiple projects. You will lead a team of QA engineers and automation testers, define metrics, and align testing with product timelines.

Role requires deep hands-on QA experience, strong leadership, and a track record in implementing automated testing and robust QA governance. This position is based in the United States with on-site work in Bellevue, WA.