Lead Software QA Analyst

Quick Facts

• Work Policy: May be remote or hybrid (U.S.-based)
• Job Type: Full Time
• Experience Level: Lead, 5+ years of software testing and test automation experience
• Schedule: Core hours of 9:00 am to 3:00 pm Central Time

About the Role

The Lead Software QA Analyst oversees the QA team and manages the end-to-end testing lifecycle, including defect management and reporting. The role keeps testing processes efficient, drives process improvements, and provides leadership to QA staff. The position reports to the Software Development Manager.

What You’ll Do

You’ll assign testing work across the QA team and help remove blockers, make sure critical testing, regression, integration, and UAT support are covered, and coordinate QA with developers, product owners, and other stakeholders. You’ll be the main contact for defect status and testing updates, mentor and develop team members, and evaluate and adopt new testing tools and methods.

On the hands-on side, you’ll collaborate on test plans, strategy, and risk-based test prioritization, create and maintain test cases, test data, and environment requirements, and perform manual testing, defect tracking in Jira, and ad-hoc testing. You’ll run regression testing, automate repetitive tests, and build, document, and report on automated test suites, while taking part in peer reviews, continuously improving processes, and following safety policies and procedures.

• Assign testing work across the QA team and help remove blockers
• Ensure critical testing, regression, integration, and UAT support are covered
• Coordinate QA with development, product owners, and other stakeholders
• Serve as the main contact for defect status and testing updates
• Mentor and develop team members
• Evaluate and adopt new testing tools and methods
• Collaborate on test plans, strategy, and risk-based test prioritization
• Create and maintain test cases, test data, and environment requirements
• Perform manual testing, defect tracking in Jira, and ad-hoc testing
• Run regression testing and automate repetitive tests
• Build, document, and report on automated test suites
• Take part in peer reviews and continuously improve processes
• Follow safety policies and procedures

What You’ll Need

• 5+ years of software testing and test automation experience with tools such as Cucumber, REST-assured, Selenium, and Postman
• 5+ years testing complex engineering applications
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Ability to perform cross-browser, load, and performance testing through automation
• Fluent English
• Legal authorization to work in the United States

Nice to Have

• Experience leading and mentoring a QA or testing team
• Agile methods and CI/CD pipelines
• XRay Test Management
• Selenium and C# programming

Working Conditions

Mostly indoor office work, with occasional travel or work outside normal hours for audits, releases, or incidents. The role involves light physical work, including lifting up to 20 lbs occasionally.