Quality Assurance Lead

Job Summary

Hybrid Work Environment - Must reside in Hawaii
Pay Range: $86,500 - $179,500
Note: Individuals typically begin between the minimum to middle of the pay range

Duties And Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, product owners, business analysts, and subject matter experts to understand business processes and requirements.
• Facilitate requirement review sessions to identify ambiguities, gaps, and testability concerns.
• Translate business requirements into detailed test scenarios and test cases.
• Work directly with business partners to validate expected outcomes and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure traceability between requirements, test cases, and defects.
• Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies, plans, and schedules for assigned projects and releases.
• Lead QA efforts for medium to large complex projects.
• Define testing scope, approach, environments, tools, data requirements, and resource needs.
• Cook up and manage test activities across functional, regression, integration, system, performance, security and user acceptance test cycles.
• Monitor progress of manual and automated test execution across all QA resources.
• Identify risks, issues, and test environment constraints that may impact timelines or quality.
• Ensure all test activities follow standard documentation, evidence capture, and sign-off processes.
• Oversee defect management and ensure timely logging, triage, prioritization, and resolution.
• Lead & facilitate daily test and defect review meetings with development, product, and business teams.
• Track and report defect trends, root causes, and quality metrics to leadership.
• Coordinate activities to ensure test environments are properly configured and stable.
• Oversee readiness and maintenance of test data sets and data refresh cycles.
• Provide regular status updates on test progress, risks, metrics, and achievement of quality goals.
• Recommend process improvements to enhance test efficiency, automation adoption, and overall quality.
• Support retrospectives and post release reviews to identify quality improvements and lessons learned.

Quality Assurance Governance & Oversight

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of all software QA processes and metrics to ensure adherence to established QA methodologies, standards, and industry best practices.
• Drive improvements in testing efficiency, effectiveness, and quality outcomes.
• Promote "shift-left" testing and quality engineering principles.
• Provide guidance, coaching, and mentorship to QA & Test team members.
• Foster and promote a collaborative, high performing QA culture within the IT organization.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Participate in Agile ceremonies (backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, etc.).
• Identify opportunities for test automation and process optimization.
• Partner with QA Engineers and development teams to expand automated test coverage.
• Champion the adoption of testing automation solutions.
• Perform all other miscellaneous responsibilities and duties as assigned or directed.