<p>We are looking for a QA Analyst to support a major automotive program in Southern California. This long-term contract opportunity is ideal for a quality specialist who can lead structured testing efforts, coordinate with cross-functional teams, and maintain strong visibility into readiness, risks, and outcomes. The role requires a hands-on approach to planning, execution, defect oversight, and reporting within a complex enterprise environment.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Develop and manage the overall quality assurance approach for the assigned program, including testing scope, readiness checkpoints, execution timelines, and status oversight.</p><p>• Produce and maintain core QA documentation such as test plans, schedules, scenarios, cases, data preparation plans, environment readiness plans, and approval milestones.</p><p>• Coordinate testing activities across business units, internal technology teams, external vendors, platform partners, integration teams, infrastructure groups, and security stakeholders.</p><p>• Monitor day-to-day testing progress by tracking coverage, execution results, defect activity, test data availability, environment status, dependencies, and unresolved decisions.</p><p>• Facilitate recurring QA review sessions to document progress, remove blockers, clarify next steps, and keep all participants aligned during execution.</p><p>• Identify emerging risks, issues, and dependency concerns early, then communicate business impact, recommended actions, and escalation needs to leadership.</p><p>• Lead defect review and resolution efforts by partnering with application teams, integration resources, vendors, downstream stakeholders, and business representatives.</p><p>• Maintain clear traceability between requirements, test cases, execution evidence, defect records, and release readiness decisions.</p><p>• Prepare detailed QA reporting that highlights delivery progress, defect trends, completed work, upcoming milestones, open risks, and decisions requiring stakeholder input.</p><p>• Support release preparation activities, including go/no-go readiness reviews, stakeholder updates, production validation planning, and post-cycle retrospective discussions.</p>

• Extensive experience leading QA activities for large-scale enterprise programs, complex implementations, or modernization initiatives.<br>• Strong hands-on background in building test strategies, test plans, test cases, schedules, test data approaches, and defect management workflows.<br>• Demonstrated ability to work within waterfall or hybrid delivery models, including formal planning, stage-gate testing, dependency coordination, and release readiness support.<br>• Proven leadership skills with the ability to guide cross-functional teams and drive accountability across business and technology stakeholders.<br>• Excellent communication and reporting skills, with experience presenting progress, risks, metrics, and recommendations to leadership audiences.<br>• Familiarity with integrated enterprise environments involving vendors, security considerations, cloud platforms, and connected downstream systems.<br>• Strong organizational and project coordination skills with a disciplined approach to planning, issue management, and execution tracking.

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