System QA Lead

Southern Company•Atlanta, GA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The System QA Lead is accountable for system level quality, integrated testing orchestration, and readiness evidence across the Agile Release Train (ART). This role ensures deployment and release decisions are driven by explicit, risk-based validation and visible evidence, not late-stage testing or assumptions. The System QA Lead coordinates cross team testing activities while teams remain accountable for the quality and fixes of their own components. Candidates must reside within commuting distance of the designated office in Atlanta or Birmingham and be willing to be present at the office Monday-Thursday. The candidate may telecommute on Fridays.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree preferred
5+ years QA experience in a lead capacity
Strong analysis skills with ability to identify and document test plans, defects, and results
Meticulous attention to detail
Excellent root cause analysis skills & problem-solving skills
Acts with initiative, speed, and decisiveness
Effectively organizes tasks, manages multiple priorities/details, and meets tight deadlines
Learns quickly
Strong oral and written communication skills
Builds productive relationships with a focus on cooperation & teamwork
Communicate effectively and timely with customers, management, and team members
Display ability to work independently of direct supervision
Understanding of Agile processes
Build effective relationships with peers, management, and customers
Be a student of the business, taking care to understand the challenges & goals of our company
Exhibit Our Values

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of Tricentis Tosca Fundamentals preferred

Responsibilities

Own system level quality outcomes for the ART, ensuring the integrated solution is validated end to end.
Ensure system level testing validates integration and readiness and does not compensate for missing team level verification.
Provide a single point of accountability for ART level quality visibility and decision support.
Own and maintain the ART must pass scenario catalog, ensuring scenarios reflect business intent, deployment scope, and risk.
Curate, prioritize, and evolve scenarios based on escaped defects, deployment outcomes, and PI learning.
Ensure scenarios are executed consistently and results are recorded as readiness evidence.
Orchestrate system integration testing, end to end business scenario execution, and ART level regression in integrated environments (primarily QA).
Coordinate trigger-based regression execution (build, QA deploy, prerelease), ensuring failures are routed to owning teams for remediation.
Ensure regression coverage is layered, risk based, and scalable, not monolithic.
Own deployment, release, and feature flag readiness reporting, consolidating evidence for Sprint 2 and Sprint 4 deployments.
Ensure readiness decisions are based on explicit evidence, including: Regression outcomes Must pass scenario execution Feature flag ON/OFF validation Documented risks and waivers
Support GO / GO with risk / NO GO decision forums with clear quality signals.
Coordinate system level defect triage, ensuring ownership, prioritization, and visibility of cross-team issues.
Track and surface systemic quality risks and integration issues to ART leadership.
Ensure explicit risk acceptance is documented when defects or gaps are waived.
Track QA and UA environment stability and test data readiness as ART level risks or impediments.
Reinforce correct environment usage: QA as the primary integrated environment for functional confidence UA for selective business validation UA1, Batlab, and Production for deploy/ops verification only
Partner with DevOps and teams to resolve environment and data issues impacting system validation.
Consolidate quality inputs for Inspect & Adapt, including escaped defects, regression effectiveness, scenario coverage gaps, and environment issues.
Drive ART level quality improvements with named owners and funded capacity each PI.
Ensure learning results in measurable, planned change rather than ad hoc fixes.
Partner closely with: System Automation Tester on suite health, automation standards, and expansion Product Management and Business Owners on outcome validation and risk acceptance RTE on quality visibility, capacity funding, and escalation of systemic risks
Provide guidance and coaching on system level quality expectations and evidence standards.