QA Lead #2587 – Location: onsite; Tamarac, FL
Position Summary:
Our partner, a technology-led manufacturer modernizing its software platforms while continuing to support deeply integrated physical systems, is adding a hands-on QA Lead to its team. This opportunity sits at the intersection of software, systems, and real-world hardware, where quality depends on understanding how everything works together in production. You’ll serve as the senior execution layer between QA leadership and the engineers doing the work, guiding day-to-day execution, improving release flow, and raising the bar on how issues are diagnosed, prioritized, and communicated. The work stays hands-on. You’ll test, investigate, ask hard questions, and help others do the same. As investment in the company’s business software platform continues, this role plays a key part in elevating technical depth, releasing confidence, and the overall maturity of QA across both software and on-site systems.
Experience and Education:
- BS in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent experience/field
- 10+ years of experience in quality assurance within software or systems-driven environments
- Background testing complex platforms spanning software, APIs, databases, and systems
- Exposure to release cycles, ticket workflows, and QA governance in growing organizations
- Hands-on testing experience across application, integration, and systems layers
- Experience supporting release cycles and QA workflows in Agile environments
- Hands-on experience with manual testing in production-facing systems
Skills and Strengths:
- Quality Assurance
- End-to-end testing
- Functional testing
- User acceptance testing
- API testing
- Postman
- SQL
- MySQL
- Database testing
- Data analysis
- Linux
- Linux command line
- Systems testing
- Software testing
- Release management
- Ticket management
- Root cause analysis
- SDLC
- Hardware Integration Testing
- Technical leadership
Primary Job Responsibilities:
- Remain hands-on with testing across software, API, database, systems, and hardware layers
- Help improve QA ticket intake, prioritization, and release coordination
- Delegate and guide QA work across engineers based on scope, risk, and release timelines
- Review use cases and functional requirements to identify test needs and coverage gaps
- Investigate failures beyond surface-level symptoms to identify root cause
- Perform API testing using Postman and validate backend behavior
- Write SQL queries to support reporting, data validation, and database testing using MySQL
- Test and troubleshoot in Linux-based environments using command-line tools
- Support lab-based testing involving physical hardware and real customer configurations
- Collaborate closely with development and DevOps teams during releases
- Provide guidance and technical support to less senior QA engineers
- Participate actively in planning and execution discussions, not just test execution
- Help reduce bottlenecks and over-dependence on QA leadership
