AKKA Cluster - NP

QA Delivery Lead
Employment Type: Full-Time
Locations: Pittsburgh, PA I Cleveland, OH I Dallas, TX
Work Model: On-Site 5 Days a Week

Role Overview
The Delivery Lead is meant to oversee QA-focused delivery program supporting a mission-critical, legacy.NET application within a financial institution. This role is responsible for ensuring predictable, high-quality delivery across testing, defect management, and release readiness while navigating the complexity of aging systems, regulatory requirements, and multiple stakeholder groups. The ideal candidate blends strong delivery management, hands-on QA leadership, and deep experience with legacy enterprise systems. You will act as the primary point of accountability for QA outcomes, timelines, and risk management.

Key Responsibilities

• Delivery & Program Leadership
• Own end-to-end delivery of QA initiatives for a legacy.NET application, ensuring alignment to scope, timeline, budget, and quality expectations.
• Develop and manage delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, and risks for testing-centric workstreams.
• Drive execution across functional, integration, regression, UAT, and release-support testing phases.
• Proactively identify delivery risks related to legacy architecture, data dependencies, environment stability, and tooling limitations.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software delivery, QA leadership
• Proven experience leading QA-centric delivery efforts for large, complex enterprise systems.
• Strong background working with legacy .NET applications (monolithic architectures, batch jobs, integrations, limited test automation).
• Experience in financial services or regulated environments (banking, payments, lending, insurance preferred).
• Demonstrated ability to manage risk, dependencies, and competing priorities in high-stakes production systems.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

• Experience with commercial banking systems, core platforms, or enterprise financial applications.
• Familiarity with Agile, hybrid, or waterfall delivery models in legacy environments.
• Understanding of CI/CD challenges and incremental modernization in older platforms.
• Prior experience working with QA vendors or consulting partners.

About Techstra Solutions
Techstra Solutions helps leading organizations unlock the value of Digital and Talent Transformation. We combine business strategy, technology, and talent to guide clients through complex transformation journeys—from strategy through execution. We deliver our expertise through consulting, innovative staffing solutions, and software development, always focused on measurable outcomes and long-term impact.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Techstra Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. The Company makes its decisions on merit, and its policy of equal opportunity prohibits discrimination in all phases of the employment process, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, promotion, selection, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, compensation, benefits, and other terms and conditions of employment. The policy of equal opportunity applies without regard to race, color, creed, religion, gender,, sexual orientation, gender identification, pregnancy, marital status, national origin, ancestry, age, disability that can reasonably be accommodated without undue hardship, military status, veteran status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, alienage or citizenship, domestic partnership status, arrest or conviction record, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other protected categories under federal, state, or local law. The Company also prohibits discrimination or harassment based upon the perception that a person has, or is associated with a person who has, any of these characteristics.