Senior Quality & Release Lead

About the Role

The Senior Quality & Release Lead owns QA strategy, automation standards, quality gates, and release management across multiple development teams. This role involves leading QA owners for individual journeys, coordinating UAT and release readiness, and tracking metrics including AI-assisted testing outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategy & Governance: Define overall QA strategy, risk-based testing approaches, automation standards, quality gates, and release exit criteria (test execution, defect severity, regression results).

• Cross-Team Coordination: Coordinate testing activities, UAT planning, and release readiness across multiple teams. Maintain traceability from requirements to test cases/defects.

• A.I.-Led Innovation: Drive AI-assisted test design and automation adoption. Ensure human review/validation of AI-generated assets (test scripts, reports).

• Metrics & Reporting: Track defect escape rates, release stability, automation coverage, and A.I-testing metrics.

• Risk Management: Coordinate triage with engineering/product stakeholders to mitigate quality risks.

Requirements

• Mandatory Experience (10+ years): Leading QA across multi-team programs, defining automation standards, coordinating releases/UAT, enforcing quality gates. Proficiency in Azure DevOps Test Plans or comparable tools.

• A.I.-Assisted Testing: At least 1 year driving A.I-assisted testing/QA; experience using AI for test design/automation/reporting.

• Leadership: Coaching QA leads across distributed teams and ensuring traceability from requirements to defects.