QA Team Leader

We have a need for a full-time QA Team Leader.
he duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
Responsible for managing QA personnel and quality assurance activities of our products.
Hands-on at least 50% of the time
Review and evaluate testing tools and services for applicability to in-house needs
Devise improvements to current QA processes and procedures and implement ongoing improvements to support release quality, reliability and schedule objectives.
Provides vision, leadership, and framework to identify needs, resolve issues, and align quality assurance and requirements strategies with business goals.
Oversee the definition and execution of end-to-end testing and requirements strategies.
Provide technical consulting on projects and tasks within the QA team scope of work
Provide QA oversight and guidance for system validation activities such as development of requirements, test plans, test cases and test scripts definition, as well as operation and performance qualification.
Suggest and implement automation testing for hardware and software products.
Setup, perform and manage integration and alpha testing activities.