Quality Engineering Lead

Role Overview:
The QA Project Lead is responsible for leading the Project QA team, providing guidance, distributing workload, and ensuring adherence to QA best practices and standards across both Project QA and O&M QA test teams. This role will define the overall QA strategy, manage testing activities, and collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure high-quality deliverables.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the QA team for the project, providing direction and workload distribution.
• Ensure QA best practices and standards are followed by Project QA and O&M QA teams.
• Develop and maintain the Project Test Plan and QA Strategy.
• Collaborate with Project Manager (PM), Business Analyst, and Development Leads to align QA activities with project goals.
• Plan and oversee various testing phases: Smoke, Functional, System Integration, Compatibility, End-to-End (E2E), Automation, Performance, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Drive continuous improvement by introducing new QA tools, methods, and technologies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Define overall QA testing effort and resource requirements for the project.
• Ensure compliance with QA processes and methodologies.
• Provide accurate QA testing effort estimations to PM/PMO.
• Execute test cases and track results in Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Ensure proper test environment setup and creation of test data.
• Lead defect triage meetings, ensuring defects are tracked in ADO and lifecycle processes are followed.
• Identify root causes of defects and implement preventive measures.
• Communicate QA expectations and requirements to internal and external stakeholders.
• Hold System Integrator (SI) accountable for deliverables.