Job Description
QA Lead
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Location: Remote – CST or EST
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Duration: 6-month contract with potential for extension
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Position Overview
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We are seeking an experienced QA Lead to provide hands-on leadership and direction across a team of approximately seven QA professionals supporting Salesforce and other enterprise technology initiatives.
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This individual will serve as a key partner to QA leadership, helping establish priorities, provide guidance to QA resources, improve accountability, and ensure quality initiatives move forward successfully.
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This is not strictly a people-management position. We are looking for a hands-on QA leader who leads by example, understands the systems being tested, and is comfortable stepping into projects when additional direction or support is needed.
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Key Responsibilities
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- Provide day-to-day leadership, guidance, and support to QA team members.
- Help establish QA priorities across multiple projects and initiatives.
- Ensure testing activities and deliverables are progressing according to expectations.
- Provide hands-on support when projects or QA resources require additional direction.
- Review testing work and follow through to ensure commitments are completed.
- Identify gaps in testing processes and recommend improvements.
- Serve as a key point of coordination between QA leadership, project teams, and other technology stakeholders.
- Support Salesforce testing initiatives as well as other enterprise applications and projects.
- Guide manual testing practices while supporting the organization's continued progression toward test automation.
- Help develop test strategies, plans, and test cases that can ultimately support automation.
- Lead by example and promote strong ownership and accountability across the QA function.
- Provide support for audit and compliance activities as needed, including potential SOC audit responses.
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Required Qualifications
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- Significant QA/testing experience with demonstrated QA leadership responsibilities.
- Experience leading or providing direction to QA analysts/testers.
- Strong understanding of manual, functional, regression, and system testing.
- Salesforce experience.
- Ability to develop and review test strategies, test plans, and test cases.
- Experience working in environments that utilize or are transitioning toward test automation.
- Strong ability to prioritize work and coordinate QA activities across multiple initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to hold teams accountable and drive work through completion.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Hands-on leadership style with the ability to lead by example.
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Preferred Qualifications
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- Strong Salesforce QA experience.
- Experience supporting large Salesforce implementations.
- SOC audit or other technology audit experience.
- Experience preparing or supporting audit responses.
- Experience working within regulated environments.
- Experience leading QA teams through improvements to testing processes or automation maturity.
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Ideal Candidate
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The ideal candidate is an experienced QA professional who combines leadership with hands-on testing knowledge. They should be comfortable taking ownership, setting direction, following up on deliverables, and stepping in when a team or project needs additional support. This person should be able to quickly understand the current QA environment, establish credibility with the team, and become a trusted partner to QA leadership.
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The projected hourly range for this position is $65 to $75.
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On-Demand Group (ODG) provides employee benefits which includes healthcare, dental, and vision insurance. ODG is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.