QA Lead

Job description

• Oversee the quality assurance strategy for NGA features and components.

• Lead a team of functional and automation testers, ensuring alignment with project goals.

• Collaborate with developers, product owners, and business analysts to define and validate acceptance criteria.

• Efficiently communicate, explain testing ideas, strictly follow and improve to SDLC

• Own the test planning, execution, and reporting across multiple environments and platforms.

• Be working with other QA´s to document the quality processes for replication in other projects.

• Be making improvements to functionality, design, and usability of new products.

• Define and implement QA strategy for NGA features and releases.

• Lead test automation initiatives, including framework design and script development.

• Manage functional testing efforts, ensuring coverage and traceability.

• Mentor testers and promote best practices across the team.

• Collaborate with offshore teams and manage distributed QA resources.

• Ensure quality gates are met before release and own sign-off processes.

Prerequisites and skills

• Very good English for daily communication

• Strong communication skills and be self-motivated.

• 6+ years experience in QA.

• Mindset of consultant - propose innovations, explain reasons for change, guide non-technical people

• Ability to work with team from US time-zone, position is more suitable who likes to wake up later/not an early bird)

• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, debugging, and problem solving skills.

• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle on an Agile (Scrum) team.

• Experience in creating effective test plans

• Experience in creating test plans based on e2e scenarios

Functional Testing

• Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban), and QA processes.

• Experience in manual test case creation, execution, and defect tracking.

• Familiarity with Azure DevOps for test management and reporting.

• Ability to interpret business requirements and translate them into test scenarios.

Automation Testing

• Proficiency in Playwright.js - mandatory, Cypress, Selenium, Appium, and WebdriverIO.

• Experience with API testing using Postman and Newman.

• Strong sense of responsibility and commitment.

• Ability to self sufficiently and proactively look for solutions.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab, and Docker from QA perspective.

• Knowledge of automation architecture, including reusable frameworks and page object models.

• Hands-on experience with C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, HTML and CSS.

• Prompt engineering for AI tools like Cursor

Tools & Frameworks

• Azure DevOps – Boards, Queries, Pipelines, Test Plans.

• GitHub/GitLab – Version control and CI/CD integration.

• Postman/Newman – API testing and automation.

• Playwright, Cypress, Selenium – UI and E2E testing.

• JMeter, Blazemeter – Performance testing.

• NuGet, Detox.js, Maestro.js – Specialized automation tools.