Quality Assurance Lead

About the role

Onsite Description: Diversified Systems is searching for a Quality Assurance Lead to plan, coordinate, govern, and report end-to-end testing efforts for enterprise applications and integrations. This role serves as the bridge between business requirements and technical validation, providing leadership for testing teams, ensuring measurable requirements traceability, and delivering clear release-readiness assessments to management. The QA Lead must be capable of supervising testers, developing testing strategies, managing quality processes, and reviewing or writing automation code when needed.

About Diversified Systems Founded in 1990, Diversified Systems is an award-winning Technology Services corporation providing all levels of IT project consulting services nationwide. DSI is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio with regional offices in the American Midwest and East Coast. We offer our consultants a number of flexible and competitive compensation benefit packages.

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 and exit criteria, estimates, schedules, dependencies, and execution plans.
• Assign and supervise testing work, review test artifacts, mentor testers, and enforce QA standards.
• Coordinate with Business Analysts, Developers, Product Owners, Project Managers, DevOps teams, DBAs, and business stakeholders.
• Requirements Analysis and Coverage Review Business Requirements Documents (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, Test Cases, test data, preconditions, expected results, and automation candidates.
• Drive complete and measurable traceability from requirements through executed tests and defects.
• Azure DevOps Test Plans Create and maintain Test Plans, Test Suites, Test Cases, configurations, test runs, evidence, and defect links within Azure DevOps.
• Establish consistent work-item relationships among BRDs, Functional Requirements, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, executions, defects, retests, and closure activities.
• Utilize Azure DevOps 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 test scenarios.
• Coordinate and participate in Smoke, Functional, API, Integration, System, Regression, End-to-End, User Acceptance Testing (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 and priority discussions.
• Ensure defects contain environment and build information, reproducible steps, expected and actual results, evidence, and requirement-to-test traceability links.
• Provide evidence-based release recommendations and communicate residual quality risks clearly to stakeholders.

Requirements

• 7 years of QA and testing experience within enterprise software environments required.
• 2 years of experience serving as a QA Lead, Test Lead, or in a senior QA role with formal leadership responsibilities required.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Playwright or Selenium automation required.
• Strong experience with Business Requirements Document (BRD) analysis, Functional Requirements analysis, Requirements Trace