Senior QA Leader – Healthcare Tech, Cloud & Automation

Netsmart; Overland Park (KS); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Netsmart in Overland Park, KS seeks a QA Leader to provide technical leadership across the engineering organization, driving automation, performance testing, and cloud QA for healthcare software used nationwide.

You will lead a QA team, own the QA strategy, maintain documentation, and partner with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable, scalable releases and compliance. The role is onsite five days a week with after-hours availability for critical releases.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in testing, test automation, or software development.
• 2+ years leading technical QA or engineering staff.
• 3+ years managing large, complex projects.
• Experience with Agile development and full SDLC testing practices.
• Strong understanding of automation frameworks, QA tooling, and CI/CD integrations.
• Must be onsite full-time in Overland Park, KS.

Responsibilities

• Lead & develop a high-performing QA engineering team.
• Drive automation, performance testing, cloud QA, and modern engineering practices.
• Own and execute a comprehensive QA strategy across product lines—automation, manual, performance, regression, and integration testing.
• Maintain and evolve QA documentation, including test plans, test cases, strategy documents, runbooks, and release readiness checklists.
• Implement shift-left testing practices and embed QA earlier in the SDLC.
• Drive improvement initiatives using data, quality metrics, and engineering feedback loops.
• Startup‑Style Ownership & Agility - Operate with urgency, flexibility, and a bias for action—removing blockers and driving forward momentum.
• Lead change initiatives that modernize QA processes, tools, workflows, and engineering quality discipline.

Skills

QA Leadership

Automation

Cloud QA

Performance testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Automation frameworks

QA tooling

CI/CD integrations

Job description

Netsmart in Overland Park, KS seeks a QA Leader to provide technical leadership across the engineering organization, driving automation, performance testing, and cloud QA for healthcare software used nationwide.

You will lead a QA team, own the QA strategy, maintain documentation, and partner with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable, scalable releases and compliance. The role is onsite five days a week with after-hours availability for critical releases.