System QA Lead

Southern Company • Atlanta, GA

21h • Hybrid

About The Position

The System QA Lead is accountable for system level quality, integrated testing orchestration, and readiness evidence across the Agile Release Train (ART). This role ensures deployment and release decisions are driven by explicit, risk-based validation and visible evidence, not late-stage testing or assumptions. The System QA Lead coordinates cross team testing activities while teams remain accountable for the quality and fixes of their own components. Candidates must reside within commuting distance of the designated office in Atlanta or Birmingham and be willing to be present at the office Monday-Thursday. The candidate may telecommute on Fridays.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree preferred; 5+ years QA experience in a lead capacity.
• Knowledge of Tricentis Tosca Fundamentals preferred
• Strong analysis skills with ability to identify and document test plans, defects, and results
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Excellent root cause analysis skills & problem-solving skills
• Acts with initiative, speed, and decisiveness
• Effectively organizes tasks, manages multiple priorities/details, and meets tight deadlines
• Learns quickly
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Builds productive relationships with a focus on cooperation & teamwork
• Communicate effectively and timely with customers, management, and team members
• Display ability to work independently of direct supervision
• Understanding of Agile processes
• Build effective relationships with peers, management, and customers
• Be a student of the business, taking care to understand the challenges & goals of our company
• Exhibit Our Values Southern Company Values Safety – We put safety first in everything we do. Integrity – We act ethically and do the right thing. Respect – We treat others with dignity and respect. Excellence – We strive for high performance and continuous improvement. Inclusion – We value different perspectives and work together as One Southern Company.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of Tricentis Tosca Fundamentals preferred

Responsibilities

• System Level Quality Ownership Own system level quality outcomes for the ART, ensuring the integrated solution is validated end to end. Ensure system level testing validates integration and readiness and does not compensate for missing team level verification. Provide a single point of accountability for ART level quality visibility and decision support.
• Scenario Governance & Must Pass Coverage Own and maintain the ART must pass scenario catalog, ensuring scenarios reflect business intent, deployment scope, and risk. Curate, prioritize, and evolve scenarios based on escaped defects, deployment outcomes, and PI learning. Ensure scenarios are executed consistently and results are recorded as readiness evidence.
• System & Regression Test Orchestration Orchestrate system integration testing, end to end business scenario execution, and ART level regression in integrated environments (primarily QA). Coordinate trigger-based regression execution (build, QA deploy, prerelease), ensuring failures are routed to owning teams for remediation. Ensure regression coverage is layered, risk based, and scalable, not monolithic.
• Readiness Evidence & Deployment Support Own deployment, release, and feature flag readiness reporting, consolidating evidence for Sprint 2 and Sprint 4 deployments. Ensure readiness decisions are based on explicit evidence, including: Regression outcomes Must pass scenario execution Feature flag ON/OFF validation Documented risks and waivers Support GO / GO with risk / NO GO decision forums with clear quality signals.
• Defect Triage & Risk Visibility Coordinate system level defect triage, ensuring ownership, prioritization, and visibility of cross-team issues. Track and surface systemic quality risks and integration issues to ART leadership. Ensure explicit risk acceptance is documented when defects or gaps are waived.
• Environment & Test Data Oversight Track QA and UA environment stability and test data readiness as ART level risks or impediments. Reinforce correct environment usage: QA as the primary integrated environment for functional confidence UA for selective business validation UA1, Batlab, and Production for deploy/ops verification only Partner with DevOps and teams to resolve environment and data issues impacting system validation.
• Continuous Improvement & Inspect & Adapt Consolidate quality inputs for Inspect & Adapt, including escaped defects, regression effectiveness, scenario coverage gaps, and environment issues. Drive ART level quality improvements with named owners and funded capacity each PI. Ensure learning results in measurable, planned change rather than ad hoc fixes.
• Collaboration & Enablement Partner closely with: System Automation Tester on suite health, automation standards, and expansion Product Management and Business Owners on outcome validation and risk acceptance RTE on quality visibility, capacity funding, and escalation of systemic risks Provide guidance and coaching on system level quality expectations and evidence standards.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level