Lead, QA & Testing

American Woodmark • Winchester, VA

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About The Position

The QA & Testing Lead reports directly to the Vice President, PMO, and serves as the foundational architect for the IT PMO Quality Assurance capability. This autonomous, strategic individual contributor owns the end-to-end testing charter, establishing test governance, quality gates, automation frameworks, and toolchains across enterprise initiatives. The role defines how quality is built and verified across enterprise systems, third-party integrations, and digital platforms, while also contributing hands-on by developing test plans, baseline scripts, and conducting initial defect triage.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience in software quality assurance, test engineering, or quality architecture.
• Proven experience building or standardizing testing frameworks across multi-application landscapes.
• Ability to combine high-level governance strategy with hands-on work, including writing test plans, establishing baseline scripts, and conducting initial defect triage.
• Strong technical background spanning enterprise systems such as ERP, supply chain, CRM, and integration middleware, as well as modern API/cloud architectures.
• Deep hands-on knowledge of test management platforms such as Jira or Azure DevOps, API testing tools, and modern automated testing engines.

Nice To Haves

• ISTQB (CTFL/CTAL), CSQE, or relevant test architecture credentials.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and roll out the enterprise QA strategy, operating model, and test governance policies across the PMO.
• Institutionalize consistent quality gates and entry/exit criteria for SIT, UAT, performance, regression, and cutover/hypercare verification across Waterfall and Agile delivery tracks.
• Evaluate, select, and integrate standard enterprise test toolsets, such as Jira/Xray and Azure DevOps, into CI/CD pipelines and PMO workflows.
• Establish standardized UAT playbooks, scripts, and defect-severity triage workflows, and coach business SME teams through User Acceptance Testing.
• Define quality expectations and audit testing deliverables from System Integrators, outsourced test execution teams, and software vendors.
• Establish executive-level quality dashboards tracking defect density, test automation coverage, defect leakage to production, and Mean Time to Resolution.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Health care benefits
• Paid holidays
• Paid vacation days
• Paid sick days
• 401(k) retirement savings plan and profit sharing
• Tuition assistance
• Relocation assistance when available

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed