QA Lead

Harvard Business Publishing•Boston, MA

2d•$100,000 - $110,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) is seeking a QA Lead to ensure the highest level of quality for its applications. The QA Lead will work with a cross-functional team to verify that products meet business requirements. This role is part of an Agile team and requires collaboration with Product Owners, Developers, and Project Managers to understand business goals, user expectations, technical aspects, and project timelines. The QA Lead will be responsible for leading test execution, creating test plans and cases, reporting bugs, and developing QA dashboards. A key aspect of this role is designing and executing a test automation strategy and supervising off-shore QA Engineers.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, with a strong foundation in creating and executing test plans, test cases, test data, and traceability matrices
4+ years of experience leading QA efforts or test initiatives, including ownership of testing strategy and delivery across projects
Demonstrated experience managing the defect lifecycle, including logging, triaging, prioritizing, tracking, and validating resolution of defects
Hands-on experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, with the ability to adapt to iterative development cycles
Proven ability to collaborate effectively with distributed/remote teams across multiple time zones
Experience mentoring, coaching, or guiding QA engineers, supporting team development and quality standards
Strong expertise in functional, regression, and end-to-end testing, across both manual and automated frameworks
Experience testing multi-tier web applications, including front-end, back-end services, and database validation
Solid understanding of test automation tools and frameworks
HTML, CSS, Web browsers
Database and SQL language
API testing using tools such as RestAssured or Postman
Test Management and Bug tracking tools
Selenium/Java, Jenkins or other CI/CD tools
Understanding of software architecture, network layer, CPU utilization

Responsibilities

Be part of the Agile team and be a partner with Product Owners understanding the business goals, the users’ expectations, the business requirements
Work closely with the Developers, in understanding the technology, the application architecture and integration with third-part software
Work closely with the Project Managers in estimating test efforts, in monitoring test progress, establishing quality gates and in advocating quality goals
Lead the test execution during all phases of the SDLC, write test plans, test cases, report bugs, execute tests and develop QA dashboard with test metrics
Supervise off-shore QA Engineers
Design and execute a test automation strategy