Líder de Testes de QA

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Líder de Testes de QA based in Brazil. We are looking for an experienced QA Test Lead to drive software quality and ensure reliable, high-performing solutions across new projects, system enhancements, and ongoing maintenance. In this role, you will collaborate closely with development teams and business stakeholders from the earliest planning stages through final delivery. You will define testing strategies, assess risks, establish test coverage, and oversee manual and automated testing activities. As a technical reference for the QA team, you will guide testing professionals, promote best practices, and encourage continuous improvement across quality assurance processes. You will also play a proactive role in identifying defects and removing delivery risks within an agile environment. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on software reliability while exploring innovative testing approaches, including AI-powered solutions.

Lead QA planning and strategy: Develop and guide comprehensive test plans and strategies for new projects, system enhancements, and maintenance activities, considering acceptance criteria, business priorities, risks, and available resources. Analyze business and technical requirements: Review functional specifications and requirements to identify testing needs, clarify expected behaviors, and ensure alignment between business objectives and technical solutions. Define test scenarios and cases: Create, review, and maintain test scenarios, cases, and execution steps covering positive, negative, and exceptional conditions to ensure adequate functional coverage. Manage testing execution: Perform and oversee manual and, where applicable, automated tests, prioritizing coverage according to functionality criticality, potential impact, and identified risks. Monitor and resolve defects: Document, register, track, and follow up on defects with development teams until resolution, ensuring clear communication and end-to-end traceability. Prepare and manage test data: Identify, create, and organize test data in advance to support effective test execution and reliable validation of system behavior. Oversee testing environments and tools: Ensure the appropriate use of testing environments, tools, and established procedures throughout the quality assurance lifecycle. Maintain testing documentation and reporting: Prepare test execution reports, organize supporting evidence, maintain documentation, and communicate progress, issues, and quality indicators to relevant stakeholders. Participate in agile ceremonies: Collaborate actively in planning sessions and other agile meetings, helping teams identify testing requirements, risks, dependencies, and potential impediments early in the development cycle. Promote preventive quality practices: Identify potential defects and quality risks before they affect production, integrating testing considerations throughout the software development lifecycle. Provide technical leadership: Guide QA analysts, review testing strategies and scenarios, support the resolution of technical questions, and help coordinate testing activities across the team. Manage risks and impediments: Monitor quality-related concerns, identify obstacles that could affect delivery, and communicate critical issues and recommendations to the appropriate stakeholders. Drive continuous improvement: Contribute to the standardization and optimization of QA processes, methodologies, documentation, and tools, incorporating new approaches and technologies where appropriate. Explore AI-enabled testing: Where relevant, evaluate opportunities to use artificial intelligence to generate, optimize, or maintain test cases and improve testing efficiency. Requirements: QA testing experience: Proven experience in software quality assurance, including functional analysis, test planning, scenario development, execution, and defect management. Requirements analysis: Ability to analyze functional requirements, understand business rules, and translate specifications into comprehensive and effective testing approaches. Test design and coverage: Experience creating test scenarios, cases, and execution steps, including positive, negative, and exception-based testing. Risk assessment: Knowledge of risk mapping, test prioritization, and coverage strategies based on functionality, business impact, and system criticality. Test data management: Experience identifying, preparing, and managing test data to support planned testing activities. Agile methodologies: Experience working in agile environments and collaborating with development and business teams from the initial planning stages. Defect lifecycle management: Ability to register, document, track, and maintain defect traceability, coordinating with development teams to support timely resolution. Testing standards and documentation: Knowledge of established testing practices and standards, with the ability to maintain clear, accurate, and organized documentation and execution evidence. Progress reporting: Ability to communicate testing status, identify blockers, report risks, and provide stakeholders with clear updates on quality and delivery progress. Technical leadership: Ability to guide QA analysts, review testing deliverables, share knowledge, and promote consistency in testing practices. Analytical and organizational skills: Strong attention to detail, critical thinking, planning, and prioritization skills, combined with a proactive approach to identifying defects and preventing quality issues. Communication and collaboration: Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with multidisciplinary teams, business stakeholders, and technical professionals. Test automation: Familiarity with test automation tools and methodologies is a plus. AI-assisted testing: Experience with automated testing using artificial intelligence, or with AI applied to test generation, optimization, and maintenance, is an advantage. Industry knowledge: Experience in the insurance and capitalization sectors is desirable. Benefits: Remote work: Work remotely from Brazil, with the flexibility to collaborate with distributed teams. Professional autonomy: Take ownership of testing strategies, quality standards, and continuous improvement initiatives. Technical leadership opportunities: Serve as a reference for QA professionals and contribute to the development of testing capabilities across the organization. Innovation and technology: Explore emerging approaches to software testing, including automation and AI-assisted quality assurance. Collaborative environment: Work closely with development and business teams in an agile setting where quality is integrated throughout the delivery process. Industry expertise: Gain exposure to software solutions designed for the insurance and capitalization markets. Contract arrangement: The position is offered under a Brazilian Pessoa Jurídica (PJ) contracting model.