In this study, using the ideas of subordination and the quantum-difference operator, we established a new subclass $ \mathcal{S} ^{\ast }\left(\delta, \sigma, q\right) $ of $ q $-starlike functions and the subclass $ \mathcal{S}_{\Sigma }^{\ast }\left(\delta, \sigma, q\right) $ of $ q $-starlike bi-univalent functions associated with the vertical strip domain. We examined sharp bounds for the first two Taylor-Maclaurin coefficients, sharp Fekete-Szegö type problems, and coefficient inequalities for the function $ h $ that belong to $ \mathcal{S}^{\ast }\left(\delta, \sigma, q\right) $, as well as sharp bounds for the inverse function $ h $ that belong to $ \mathcal{S}^{\ast }\left(\delta, \sigma, q\right) $. We also investigated some results for the class of bi-univalent functions $ \mathcal{S}_{\Sigma }^{\ast }\left(\delta, \sigma, q\right) $ and well-known corollaries were also highlighted to show connections between previous results and the findings of this paper.