Quality Assurance Lead

The QA Lead is accountable for the quality assurance practice across product delivery, ensuring that software is testable, test execution is timely and transparent, critical defects are surfaced early, and releases meet agreed quality standards. This role leads day-to-day QA planning and execution, strengthens automation and regression coverage, coaches QA team members, and works closely with Product Owners and Engineering to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle rather than treating testing as a final-stage activity. The QA Lead is expected to create clear visibility into test readiness, progress, risk, and blockers. The role owns the operating discipline of QA: defining test approaches, ensuring execution begins when planned, maintaining useful quality metrics, driving defect triage, and escalating issues early when delivery or release quality is at risk. Key Responsibilities Quality Leadership & Accountability Own the day-to-day QA practice and establish consistent expectations for test planning, execution, documentation, and release readiness. Ensure QA work begins when planned and that delays, blockers, environment issues, data needs, or scope gaps are identified and communicated immediately. Create transparency into what has been tested, what remains untested, current defects, quality risks, and confidence in release readiness. Hold QA team members accountable for execution commitments, timely updates, accurate status reporting, and follow-thro