Qa Lead/manager

About the role

The Quality Assurance (QA) Lead is responsible for leading test planning, coordination, and execution for assigned projects and business applications at Do it Best. This role owns the quality and completeness of QA deliverables and ensures testing validates business requirements, system integrations, and operational workflows. The QA Lead independently manages assigned work, provides day‑to‑day direction to QA analysts, and performs hands‑on testing. The role works closely with Business Analysts, project managers, developers, architects, and business stakeholders to resolve gaps, coordinate testing dependencies, and provide clear recommendations on release readiness. Experience managing offshore testing teams, coordinating work across time zones, setting delivery expectations, creating and managing KPI and testing metrics, and understanding vendor contracts is required. The QA Lead also mentors team members, reviews test plans and scripts, and helps establish consistent QA practices while identifying risks early and focusing testing on high‑impact areas.

Responsibilities

• QA Delivery Ownership

  Own QA activities for assigned projects from initial planning through test completion and release support. Define testing scope, estimates, resource needs, milestones, and entry/exit criteria based on business risk. Assign testing work, balance workloads, and set clear ownership and completion dates. Track test preparation and execution progress, identify schedule risks, and escalate capacity constraints or priority conflicts. Confirm testing prerequisites—including environments, access, test data, and dependencies—with responsible teams.

• Test Planning and Execution

  Review requirements and acceptance criteria with Business Analysts to identify gaps and ensure testability. Develop and peer‑review test plans, scenarios, scripts, and data for functional, integration, regression, and end‑to‑end testing. Maintain traceability between requirements, test coverage, execution results, and defects. Perform hands‑on testing, review evidence, and ensure critical workflows, exception paths, and downstream impacts receive appropriate coverage. Retest fixes, assess regression needs, and document incomplete testing and remaining risks before recommending QA completion.

• Cross‑Functional Leadership

  Coordinate testing across business and technology teams, external partners, and on‑shore/off‑shore QA resources. Facilitate QA working sessions focused on progress, blockers, decisions, and next steps. Resolve unclear requirements, dependencies, and ownership with Business Analysts, developers, and project managers. Communicate testing status and business impacts clearly, including preparation progress, execution results, blockers, and open defects.

Skills

• Quality assurance
• Automation
• Selenium
• Quality assurance testing
• Manual testing
• Agile
• Test case
• Test script
• Test plan
• Test automation

Experience Level

Expert Level

Job Type & Location

Contract to Hire position based in Dallas, TX. Fully onsite.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $55.00 – $80.00 per hour. Individual compensation will depend on qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent factors.

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital coverage
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – pre‑tax and Roth post‑tax contributions
• Life Insurance (voluntary life & AD&D for employee and dependents)
• Short and long‑term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, vacation, or sick leave)