QA Governance Analyst

Must Have

• 6–10 years QA experience.
• 3+ years QA Governance / QA Process / QA Lead experience.
• Strong SDLC / STLC and Agile/Scrum knowledge.
• Strong test planning, QA governance and quality-gate experience.
• Strong defect management and RCA governance experience.
• Experience conducting QA process audits / compliance reviews.
• Jira / Azure DevOps or equivalent experience.
• Strong analytical, documentation and communication skills.

Good to Have

• QA COE / TCoE experience.
• Enterprise QA transformation experience.
• ITIL / Six Sigma / CMMI / ISO knowledge.
• Release governance experience.
• Power BI / QA dashboard experience.
• AI-assisted governance experience.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Operationalize and maintain QA COE governance framework and standards.
• Review Test Strategies, Test Plans, coverage, risks, traceability and test evidence.
• Maintain sprint/release quality gates and Go/No-Go checklists.
• Monitor defect classification, severity, priority, aging, leakage and RCA.
• Facilitate defect triage and release readiness reviews.
• Conduct periodic QA process audits and track corrective actions.
• Maintain governance artifacts, RACI, standards, templates and compliance evidence.
• Prepare QA governance, audit, defect and release readiness reports.