Quality Assurance Specialist

Position Summary

The QA Lead will plan, coordinate, govern, and report the end-to-end testing effort for enterprise applications and integrations. The role must bridge business requirements and technical validation, supervise other testers, ensure measurable requirements traceability, and provide management with clear release-readiness information. The QA Lead must also be capable of reviewing and writing automation code when needed.

Core Responsibilities:

Test Leadership and Governance

· Act as Test Lead for assigned programs, releases, modules, and production-readiness efforts.

· Develop the overall test strategy, scope, entry/exit criteria, estimates, schedules, dependencies, and execution plan.

· Assign and supervise testing work, review test artifacts, mentor testers, and enforce QA standards.

· Coordinate with Business Analysts, Developers, Product Owners, Project Managers, DevOps, DBAs, and business stakeholders.

·Requirements Analysis and Coverage

· Review BRDs, Functional Requirements (FRs), user stories, acceptance criteria, workflow diagrams, interface specifications, data mappings, and API specifications.

· Identify missing, ambiguous, conflicting, or untestable requirements before execution begins.

· Translate requirements into Test Scenarios (TS), Test Cases (TC), test data, preconditions, expected results, and automation candidates.

· Drive complete, measurable traceability from requirements to executed tests and defects.

·Azure DevOps Test Plans

· Create and maintain Test Plans, Test Suites, Test Cases, configurations, test runs, evidence, and defect links in Azure DevOps (ADO).

· Establish consistent work-item relationships among BRDs/FRs, TSs, TCs, executions, defects, retests, and closure.

· Use ADO queries and dashboards to communicate progress, blockers, defects, coverage, and release readiness.

·Test Design and Execution

· Create and review Positive, Negative, Boundary Value, Equivalence Partitioning, Decision Table, State Transition, Role/Authorization, Data-Driven, and Risk-Based tests.

· Coordinate and participate in Smoke, Functional, API, Integration, System, Regression, End-to-End, UAT, Performance-support, Database, and Data Pipeline testing.

· Ensure failures are reproducible, evidence is complete, and test results are defensible.

·Defect and Release Management

· Lead or participate in defect triage and severity/priority decisions.

· Ensure defects contain environment/build information, reproducible steps, expected/actual results, evidence, and requirement/test links.

· Provide evidence-based release recommendations and clearly communicate residual quality risk.

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