Job Description

Role: QA Lead - Product Development (Healthcare & Compliance Focus)
Position Summary
The QA Lead for Product Development owns the end-to-end quality strategy across the product lifecycle. This leader builds and manages the QA team, defines standards, integrates compliance into agile workflows, and ensures that all features are designed, developed, and tested for compliance and performance from day one. They are the strategic counterpart to the Compliance QA Specialist on the implementation side.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic QA Leadership

• Define the QA roadmap for the product (automation, performance, compliance testing strategies).
• Establish "shift-left" testing: ensure HIPAA, Medicaid, SOC2, and 508 acceptance criteria are in every user story.
• Partner with Product Owner to ensure compliance requirements are prioritized in backlog grooming.
• Team Leadership
• Lead a team of QA engineers/testers across product squads.
• Mentor team on secure coding, test automation, accessibility, and compliance-driven QA practices.
• Define QA KPIs and drive continuous improvement.
• Process Ownership
• Integrate automated compliance and security checks into CI/CD pipeline.
• Ensure traceability between regulatory requirements, test cases, and product features.
• Own test strategy for API integrations (e.g., Medicaid data, MCO systems, HL7/FHIR).
• Collaboration
• Partner with Engineering Lead to ensure security/privacy are considered in architecture.
• Collaborate with Compliance QA Specialist on the implementation side for handoff and release validation.
• Liaise with external auditors/regulators when needed for product-side validation.

Qualifications
7+ years in QA (with 3+ in leadership/management).

• Strong background in test automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and secure software testing.
• Deep familiarity with HIPAA, SOC2, Medicaid compliance requirements, and Section 508 accessibility.
• Experience managing QA in a regulated healthcare environment.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder communication skills.

KPIs

• % of features with compliance acceptance criteria embedded before dev starts.
• Reduction in compliance-related defects found post-release.
• QA automation coverage (% of regression/compliance suite automated).
• % of successful compliance test handoffs to Implementation QA Specialist.
• Accessibility compliance scores during development (not just post-release).

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