Software QA Lead (WFH)

Quick Facts

• Work Policy: Fully remote, permanent work from home
• Job Type: Full Time, Monday to Friday
• Experience Level: 6+ years in software quality assurance, testing, or quality engineering
• Schedule: Day shift on Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST)
• Industry: Technology

About PeoplePartners

PeoplePartners connects talented professionals with international opportunities and describes itself as a Great Place to Work certified company with a people-first culture built on collaboration, continuous learning, and career growth. You’ll work with global clients, expand your professional expertise, and enjoy the flexibility of working from home.

About the Role

You’ll join one of PeoplePartners’ Australian clients as a Software QA Lead, taking ownership of QA delivery, testing improvements, and team development. The role is part technical expert and part people leader: you’ll balance hands-on testing with coaching Test Analysts, strengthening test automation, and collaborating with Product, Business Analysis, and Engineering teams.

You’ll help introduce smarter, risk-based testing practices, explore AI-assisted testing tools, and identify quality risks earlier in the software development lifecycle. The aim is to build quality into the process rather than only test for it at the end, and you’ll still get your hands dirty with testing.

What You’ll Do

• Lead daily QA activities, testing priorities, and delivery across Agile sprints and releases
• Perform functional, integration, exploratory, regression, and automated testing
• Test web applications, APIs, integrations, and distributed services
• Manage, coach, and mentor Test Analysts, including performance management and skills development
• Design, maintain, and improve automated test suites and regression testing coverage
• Implement risk-based testing strategies focused on critical business functionality
• Investigate complex defects across UI, API, SQL databases, and backend services
• Identify quality risks, testing dependencies, and potential release blockers
• Collaborate with Product, Business Analysis, and Engineering teams to clarify requirements and improve testability
• Support defect triage, root cause analysis, and release-readiness assessments
• Evaluate AI-assisted testing tools to improve testing efficiency and coverage while maintaining reliability and security
• Identify opportunities to improve QA processes, testing workflows, and defect prevention
• Promote shared accountability for software quality across development teams

What You’ll Need

• 6+ years of experience in software quality assurance, software testing, or quality engineering
• Proven experience leading a QA team or function, including coaching, mentoring, and performance management
• Strong hands-on experience testing web applications, APIs, integrations, and distributed services
• Experience performing manual, functional, integration, exploratory, and regression testing
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining automated tests
• Strong troubleshooting and defect investigation skills across UI, API, database, and backend service layers
• Working knowledge of SQL for database validation and defect investigation
• Understanding of risk-based testing, test coverage, defect management, and software quality practices
• Experience working in Agile software development environments
• Ability to assess quality risks and communicate testing progress and release readiness
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to balance hands-on technical testing with QA team leadership responsibilities
• Experience testing applications or services hosted on AWS
• Experience using AI-assisted testing tools or techniques
• Experience improving automated regression testing coverage, reliability, and maintainability

Why Join PeoplePartners

• A Great Place to Work certified culture that values collaboration, respect, and employee well-being
• A 100% work-from-home setup
• International career exposure through collaboration with an Australian client
• Career growth and development, including leadership and technical advancement
• Continuous learning through knowledge sharing, practical learning, and exposure to emerging technologies
• Supportive and collaborative teams with open communication
• Employee engagement activities, including company initiatives and milestone celebrations
• Meaningful work with a direct impact on software quality, team development, and reliable product delivery

Benefits

• Permanent work-from-home setup and day shift schedule
• Company-provided equipment and a secondary Wi-Fi modem
• 21 leave credits annually, with leave benefits starting on day 1
• 100% conversion of unused leave credits
• HMO on day 1
• 13th month pay
• Monthly gift voucher
• Milestone tokens for birthdays, anniversaries, and Christmas
• Work-life balance, with in-person engagement such as the Christmas party and team building, plus virtual events such as town halls with prizes