Functional Test Lead

The QA Lead / QA Tester would lead the three-person QA team across thez Development application portfolio with primary ownership a multi-tier enterprise platform built on Java/Spring services, a React single-page application, and a legacy Grails core. The role involves test execution, regression validation, data workflow testing, release-readiness coordination, and establishing QA standards, while coordinating test planning, release signoff, and defect triage across all three applications.

Responsibilities

• Understand the values and vision of the organization
• Adhere to all the policies and procedures
• Lead the QA team and coordinate test planning, release signoff, defect triage, and QA practices.
• Define and enforce QA standards, test strategy, regression scope, and release-readiness criteria across the application portfolio
• Execute test plans, validate regression scope, support release-readiness checks, and perform production validation.
• Validate complex business workflows involving data ingestion, validation, metric calculation, notifications, and user interaction
• Test RESTful APIs, backend services, database-driven workflows, scheduled jobs, and event-driven processing
• Perform test data setup, data validation, troubleshooting, and reconciliation using SQL
• Support UAT, defect triage, retesting, release signoff, and quality communication across development, and business stakeholders
• Validate modernization changes as the platform migrates away from legacy Grails/GSP, ActiveMQ/JMS, and Apache Storm components
• Use QA automation and AI-assisted tools where appropriate to accelerate test design, regression scripting, and test maintenance
• Mentor QA testers and support cross-training of QA resources across all three applications

Essential Skills

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• 6-10 years of experience in QA, software testing, or quality engineering for enterprise web applications, with demonstrated QA leadership or team coordination experience
• Experience executing test plans, validating regression scope, supporting release-readiness checks, and performing production validation
• Strong ability to validate complex business workflows involving data ingestion, validation, metric calculation, notifications, and user interaction
• Experience testing RESTful APIs, backend services, database-driven workflows, scheduled jobs, and event-driven processing
• Strong SQL skills for test data setup, data validation, troubleshooting, and reconciliation
• Experience defining test strategy, test plans, test scope, and release-readiness criteria
• Ability to support UAT, defect triage, retesting, release signoff, and quality communication across stakeholders

Personal

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage with all levels of employees and management
• Demonstrated leadership abilities in managing, mentoring, and guiding a QA team
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• A proactive, ownership-driven approach to quality, release readiness, and process improvement

Preferred Skills

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• Experience using QA automation or AI-assisted tools to accelerate test design, regression scripting, and test maintenance
• Experience with VersionOne, Jira, or equivalent Agile ticketing systems for test planning and defect tracking
• Familiarity with AWS-based platforms, messaging systems (SQS/SNS, JMS), and event-driven architectures
• Exposure to testing Java/Spring, React, and legacy Grails-based applications

Other Relevant Information

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• 6-10 years of experience in QA, software testing, or quality engineering, preferably for enterprise SaaS platforms
• Willingness to cross-train and provide QA coverage across multiple applications