QA Specialist

About The Role

Our Client is seeking an experienced Senior QA Specialist to support testing activities across the full delivery and product lifecycle of a large scale public sector technology initiative. This role is hands on and leadership focused, requiring strong expertise in test strategy, execution, defect management, and stakeholder collaboration.

The successful candidate will work closely with developers, business users, and project managers to ensure high quality, reliable solutions are delivered.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development of test strategies, test plans, test cases, and test scripts
• Plan, manage, and schedule end to end testing activities across multiple test cycles
• Execute and oversee manual and automated testing including system, functional, regression, integration, and UAT
• Track, manage, and triage defects using collaborative tools and communicate status to stakeholders
• Support and lead User Acceptance Testing, providing guidance to business users
• Review functional and technical specifications to ensure full test coverage
• Identify quality risks early and escalate issues to project leadership
• Prepare test data sets that reflect real world scenarios
• Execute database queries to validate and extract test data
• Collaborate with developers, vendors, QA teams, and business stakeholders to resolve issues
• Produce test summary reports and provide regular status updates
  
  

Must Have Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands on QA experience, including leading QA or testing teams
• Strong experience with defect tracking and test management tools
• Experience testing enterprise level applications and systems
• Knowledge of the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Hands on experience with technologies such as SharePoint, Web Services, HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, COTS, SaaS, and cloud based applications
• Experience using version control and DevOps tools (Microsoft DevOps preferred)
• Strong analytical, problem solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills
  
  

Nice to Have

• Experience with automated testing tools
• Experience supporting public sector or government projects
• Experience with performance, load, and data testing
• Experience facilitating defect triage sessions and UAT workshops