Technical Lead - Software QA Technical Lead

Technical Lead - Software QA Technical Lead

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Summary: The Technical Lead - Software QA position is a remote role focused on leading quality assurance efforts within a software development environment. The candidate will be responsible for setting strategies and standards for automation, embedding quality early in the development process, and mentoring QA engineers. The role requires a strong background in QA/automation and technical leadership, with an emphasis on modern testing practices and tools. The ideal candidate will also leverage AI technologies to enhance testing efficiency and effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Own the quality platform: Set strategy, architecture, and standards for automation.
  • Embed quality early: Drive PR-level tests, contract/API checks, and CI/CD quality gates.
  • Apply AI where it counts: Use AI/LLM-assisted test generation and self-healing locators.
  • Simplify the SDLC: Streamline pipelines, test data management, and release guardrails.
  • Solve hard problems with architects: Tackle cross-cutting issues and retire tech debt.
  • Build the right tests: Expand reliable web/UI, API, and integration coverage.
  • Coach and elevate: Mentor QA engineers and set standards for automation code.
  • Measure what matters: Stand up live dashboards to inform decisions.
  • Own root cause: Lead deep-dive debugging across test and prod.
  • GitHub-native CI/CD: Standardize on GitHub pipelines for automated deployments.
  • Reliable testing for high velocity: Build a strategy that scales with cadence.
  • AI-assisted, data-driven quality: Apply LLM-assisted test generation and enforce quality gates.
  • Framework evolution (tool-agnostic): Evaluate and pilot modern UI/API automation options.

Key Skills:

  • 10+ years in QA/automation with 5+ years leading/architecting frameworks.
  • Proven success embedding automated quality gates into CI/CD.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and improving code quality.
  • 3+ years in a technical leadership or lead automation engineer role.
  • Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) using Gherkin or Cucumber.
  • Experience with JavaScript, PowerShell, Python, Bash, or Ruby.
  • Experience with Spring Framework.
  • Experience with Grafana, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.
  • Experience with Maven, AI tools, Jira, and Confluence.
  • Experience with Selenium WebDriver and CI/CD tools like Jenkins and GitHub Actions.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: USA

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Technical Lead - Software QA Technical Lead (Remote)
Primary Location: Remote

V-Soft Consulting is currently hiring for a Technical Lead - Software QA Technical Lead (Remote) for our premier client.

Education and Experience »

  • 10+ years in QA/automation with 5+ years leading/architecting frameworks.
  • Proven success embedding automated quality gates into CI/CD for high-velocity releases.
  • Track record mentoring engineers and raising the bar on code quality and test design.
  • Comfort collaborating with architects and senior engineers on systemic quality problems.
Nice-To-Have:
  • Experience introducing AI tooling (e.g., Copilot, test-gen, self-healing) into real teams.
  • Performance, security, or contract-testing exposure.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities »
  • 3+ years in a technical leadership or lead automation engineer role. MUST have Leadership experience.
  • Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) using Gherkin or Cucumber.
  • JavaScript, PowerShell, Python, Bash, or Ruby experience.
  • Experience with Spring Framework.
Preferred Skills:
  • Grafana experience.
  • Container Architecture: Docker or Kubernetes.
  • Experience with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.
  • Maven.
  • AI experience.
  • Jira.
  • Confluence.
Languages/Frameworks: Java, JUnit, Maven; BDD with Cucumber/Gherkin.
Automation: Selenium WebDriver (today); informed experience with Playwright (Java/TypeScript) a plus.
CI/CD & SCM: Jenkins, GitHub Actions; GitHub for collaboration.
Observability & Metrics: Grafana (quality and performance dashboards).
Backend/Platform context: Spring Boot/Spring Security; Oracle DB; FileNet/content systems.
Scripting: PowerShell or similar for utilities.
Quality practices: Testing pyramid, risk-based design, code reviews, and environment parity.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:
Job Responsibilities:
  • Own the quality platform: Set strategy, architecture, and standards for automation—Java today, with pragmatic evolution to modern UI/API automation where it improves reliability.
  • Embed quality early: Drive PR-level tests, contract/API checks, and CI/CD quality gates for rapid, trusted developer feedback.
  • Apply AI where it counts: Use AI/LLM-assisted test generation, self-healing locators, flake triage, and test-impact analysis to reduce toil and raise signal.
  • Simplify the SDLC: With DevOps, streamline pipelines, test data management, environment provisioning, and release guardrails for faster flow.
  • Solve hard problems with architects: Tackle cross-cutting issues (auth, data, performance, flakiness) and retire tech debt with durable solutions.
  • Build the right tests: Expand reliable web/UI, API, and integration coverage; harden environments and test data.
  • Coach and elevate: Mentor QA engineers, review automation code, and set standards for readability, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Measure what matters: Stand up live dashboards (coverage, pass/fail, flakiness, MTTR) to inform decisions and continuously raise the bar.
  • Own root cause: Lead deep-dive debugging across test and prod, driving prevention—not just fixes.
  • GitHub-native CI/CD: Standardize on GitHub pipelines for frequent, automated deployments—define branch strategy, environment promotions, and reusable workflows that make shipping safe by default.
  • Reliable testing for high velocity: Build a strategy that scales with cadence—PR checks, contract/API tests, fast UI smoke suites, test-impact analysis, deterministic data & ephemeral envs, parallelization, and rigorous flake control.
  • AI-assisted, data-driven quality: Apply LLM-assisted test generation/self-healing and enforce quality gates backed by live dashboards (coverage, flakiness, MTTR, DORA) to boost signal and confidence.
  • Framework evolution (tool-agnostic): Evaluate and pilot modern UI/API automation options against clear criteria (reliability, speed, parity, maintainability, ROI) and recommend phased adoption that protects delivery.

Interested?
Qualified candidates should send their resumes to

V-Soft Consulting Group is recognized among the top 100 fastest growing staffing companies in North America, V-Soft Consulting Group is headquartered in Louisville, KY with strategic locations in India, Canada and the U.S. V-Soft is known as an agile, innovative technology services company holding several awards and distinctions and has a wide variety of partnerships across diverse technology stacks.

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