Quality Assurance Lead - Selenium/Test Strategy (

PNC • Birmingham, AL

7d • Onsite

About The Position

Operating in a global delivery model, the QA Lead provides strategic direction for testing and serves as a subject matter expert for both the quality discipline and supported line of business domain(s). This role is accountable for embedding quality as a core focus throughout the product development lifecycle, ensuring testing is planned early, executed effectively, and aligned with organizational standards, regulatory expectations, and business objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong foundation in software testing methodologies and product development lifecycle (PDLC) practices
• Demonstrated experience leading or coordinating testing initiatives
• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills
• Experience leading testing initiatives for medium to large scale projects
• Hands on experience formulating and executing quality strategies
• Experience writing and maintaining Test Strategies and Test Summary Reports
• Strong experience working closely with BSAs, Product Owners, Project Managers, and Engineering teams
• Experience identifying risks, defining contingencies, and communicating quality impacts to stakeholders
• Proven ability to align quality efforts with team objectives and organizational goals
• Leverage strong expertise in Java, Selenium, Cucumber, Karate, and API testing to drive automation maturity

Nice To Haves

• Experience operating within a global delivery or distributed team model in a banking domain
• Strong ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across cross functional teams
• Experience working in regulated or compliance driven environments
• Demonstrated leadership in mentoring and developing QA/QE team members
• Leading quality efforts across multiple applications or business domains
• Driving early quality engagement and shift left testing practices
• Developing and evolving testing standards, frameworks, and best practices
• Partnering across lines of business to ensure changes do not negatively impact downstream systems

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for testing across the product lifecycle, ensuring appropriate prioritization, coverage, and sign off of testing activities
• Serve as the subject matter expert for quality engineering practices and domain specific workflows within a global delivery model
• Lead the review and approval of testing artifacts, including test strategies, test plans, scripts, and test results
• Coordinate test strategy development, test scripting, execution, and defect resolution efforts across teams
• Ensure early engagement with internal partners to embed quality considerations early in the product lifecycle
• Take accountability for quality standards across the development, implementation, and maintenance of test assets and automation solutions
• Identify opportunities to improve automation coverage and testing efficiency
• Develop meaningful management metrics to gauge project health, identify trends, and drive continuous improvement across releases
• Proactively assess risks and ensure quality outcomes align with enterprise governance and compliance expectations
• Attend Scrum ceremonies and actively participate in planning, refinement, and retrospectives
• Communicate testing progress, risks, and blockers, and propose resolution strategies
• Work closely with testers to develop test cases and assess test execution results
• Review user stories to ensure test execution aligns with defined acceptance criteria
• Assist team members by removing blockers and providing guidance as needed
• Collaborate with team members on test automation and provide constructive feedback
• Coordinate with other lines of business to ensure changes do not introduce unintended impacts
• Motivate and mentor team members, fostering pride in quality outcomes and continuous growth
• Ensure teams clearly understand quality expectations and what is required to deliver secure, high quality releases

Benefits

• medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature)
• dental and vision options
• employee and spouse/child life insurance
• short and long-term disability protection
• 401(k) with PNC match
• pension and stock purchase plans
• dependent care reimbursement account
• back-up child/elder care
• adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
• educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
• a robust wellness program with financial incentives
• maternity and/or parental leave
• up to 11 paid holidays each year
• 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
• between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level