Quality Assurance Lead; MNSITE

Company Description

Integres, LLC is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) which was established to provide high quality, insightful, agile information technology-based solutions to its customers. Integrity is a foundational element of everything we strive to do. We seek to develop solutions which respond to the evolving challenges that today’s organizations face using our own unique combination of industry best practices, and evolving techniques and technologies.

We started Integres with the intent of building "a company with a soul". As such, we take a servant‑leadership approach as the long‑term strategy for our success. We are cultivating a corporate family culture which demands excellence and accountability while putting a premium on work/life balance. We empower and support our employees to contribute to achieving our corporate goals by interacting with our customers as true partners, rather than treating their engagement as just another job.

We seek to be good corporate citizens and encourage and promote employee participation in community and volunteer work.

Solicitation Number: MNSITE-3672

Client: Metropolitan Council

Location: 390 Robert Street North, St. Paul, MN 55101

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (Minimum 1 day onsite per week; additional onsite as required)

Interview Mode: In‑person interview required in St. Paul, MN

• Serve as the Program QA Lead for multiple large‑scale, enterprise‑wide initiatives within the BPSI Program.
• Develop and implement comprehensive QA strategies, standards, and test frameworks across projects.
• Provide hands‑on leadership for testing efforts, including test plan creation, test case development, and defect management.
• Direct and mentor multiple QA Analysts while managing individual work streams and contributing to active testing.
• Oversee and validate vendor‑led testing activities, ensuring alignment with program standards and integration requirements.
• Develop and manage QA schedules, testing dependencies, and risk mitigation strategies across concurrent projects.
• Execute manual test scenarios and perform regression, functional, and integration testing across diverse solutions.
• Support configuration management and release control, maintaining traceability and documentation throughout the QA lifecycle.
• Define and track QA performance metrics such as defect density, coverage, and exit criteria for release readiness.
• Collaborate with program management, business analysts, developers, and vendors to prioritize defect resolution and testing scope.
• Provide QA governance and oversight throughout all project phases, ensuring adherence to enterprise standards and methodologies.
• Mentor business analysts and project team members in QA best practices to promote consistent quality across program initiatives.

• Ten (10) years’ experience in software quality assurance or software testing roles.
• Five (5) years of QA leadership experience managing or directing QA efforts on programs.
• One (1) year of experience with cloud‑based SaaS implementations
• Two (2) years’ experience leading QA activities in multi‑vendor or multi‑system integration environments.
• Two (2) years’ experience performing manual and automation testing.
• Two (2) years’ experience (cumulative) developing QA strategies, test plans, test cases, and metrics to measure quality and readiness.
• One (1) year of experience using either Azure Dev Ops, JIRA, or HP ALM
• Two (2) years of experience applying QA processes within Agile, Iterative, and Waterfall development methodologies.
• Able to work onsite at least one day per week and more frequently as business needs dictate

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related discipline
• Experience working within government or regulated industries implementing mission‑critical systems.
• Experience with mass transit technology solutions, including fare collection, asset management, or operational analytics systems.
• Prior experience in public sector, utilities, or transportation
• Familiarity with test data management, performance testing, and vendor validation processes.
• Working knowledge of…