Lead QA Developer Research and Development (R&D) Consultant

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Lead QA Developer

Location: United States, Indiana

Experience: Senior

Skillset: Quality Assurance (QA)

Job Type: Consultant

Department: Research and Development (R&D)

Job Mode: Remote

Lead QA Developer

Role Count: 2

The Lead QA Developer serves as the final quality gate for all code promoted to production. This role owns the end-to-end testing strategy and ensures all releases meet defined business, quality, and operational standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain automated testing strategies and frameworks (unit, integration, regression, system).
• Establish and enforce quality standards, test coverage requirements, and release readiness criteria.
• Partner early with architects and developers to embed testability into solution design.
• Review requirements and designs to identify gaps, risks, and unvalidated business assumptions.
• Lead defect root-cause analysis and drive continuous improvement across development and QA processes.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong Python expertise with the ability to review and critique production-quality code.
• Deep understanding of large-scale network environments and service workflows.
• Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., pytest), CI/CD pipelines, and API testing/mocking.
• Experience validating systems that integrate with APIs, network devices, and distributed systems.
• Strong documentation and communication skills to support release and quality governance decisions.

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Experience validating systems that integrate with APIs, network devices, and distributed systems.

Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., pytest), CI/CD pipelines, and API testing/mocking