Strategic ServiceNow QA Lead — Portfolio Testing & Governance

Strategic Staffing Solutions; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Staffing Solutions is seeking a Portfolio QA Lead to govern testing across a Digital project portfolio. This W2 contract role focuses on enforcing Enterprise Testing Gates and ensuring standardized testing practices across vendors and teams.

Responsibilities include coordinating test readiness, validating designs for functional, performance, and security tests, and mentoring project testing leads to improve portfolio-wide quality visibility.

Qualifications

• Experience leading QA/testing governance across multiple projects.
• Proven ability to execute Enterprise Testing Gates.
• Mentor and onboard Project Testing Leads.
• Ability to coordinate cross-project testing activities.

Responsibilities

• Execute the five Enterprise Testing Gates for all Project Testing Leads in the portfolio.
• Provide a single governance point across every project in the portfolio.
• Ensure gate decisions remain independent of day-to-day testing execution.
• Confirm requirements, scope and acceptance criteria support testing readiness.
• Verify the solution design supports functional, performance, security, and resiliency testing.
• Confirm automation and regression readiness before Build finishes.
• Validate environments, data, integrations, and test assets prior to SIT entry.
• Assess testing completion, defects, and deployment readiness before go-live.
• Ensure ETS standards are adopted on portfolio projects above the small project threshold.
• Mentor and onboard Project Testing Leads across the portfolio.
• Drive adoption of ETS dashboards and reporting for portfolio-level visibility.
• Identify where test automation and performance testing should be used across the portfolio.
• Escalate cross-project testing risks and resources to ETS leadership.

Skills

Test Lead experience

Testing governance

QA leadership

Enterprise testing gates

Tools

ServiceNow

Job description

Strategic Staffing Solutions is seeking a Portfolio QA Lead to govern testing across a Digital project portfolio. This W2 contract role focuses on enforcing Enterprise Testing Gates and ensuring standardized testing practices across vendors and teams.

Responsibilities include coordinating test readiness, validating designs for functional, performance, and security tests, and mentoring project testing leads to improve portfolio-wide quality visibility.