Job Description
Job Summary:
The Test Lead - Senior is responsible for leading quality assurance and testing activities across the delivery lifecycle of large, complex digital or enterprise solutions. This role involves defining test strategies, managing test execution, coordinating cross-functional teams, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software through both manual and automated testing approaches.
Responsibilities:
- Define and maintain the overall test strategy and quality management approach for projects.
- Develop comprehensive test plans, schedules, scenarios, scripts, procedures, and reports.
- Lead testing activities including functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, security, and user acceptance testing.
- Identify and implement opportunities for test automation to enhance efficiency and coverage.
- Coordinate test environments, tools, test data, and supporting resources.
- Establish requirements traceability and test coverage reporting.
- Lead defect triage sessions and monitor defect lifecycle from identification to closure.
- Identify testing risks, dependencies, constraints, and develop mitigation strategies.
- Report on testing progress, quality metrics, outstanding defects, and release risks.
- Provide evidence-based recommendations regarding release readiness and solution quality.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary testing activities across business, development, architecture, security, privacy, and operations teams.
Required Skills:
- Proven experience leading testing for large, complex digital or enterprise solutions.
- Expertise in developing comprehensive test strategies, plans, scenarios, scripts, procedures, and completion reports.
- Strong knowledge and leadership in functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, security, and user acceptance testing.
- Experience with both manual and automated testing methodologies.
- Ability to define and maintain project test strategies and quality management approaches.
- Experience coordinating testing activities across diverse multidisciplinary teams.
- Proficient in defect management processes including identification, prioritization, resolution, retesting, and closure.
- Experience developing test metrics, dashboards, traceability reports, and quality assessments.
Desired Skills:
- Experience using test automation tools for user-interface, API, or database testing.
- Familiarity with selecting and applying testing tools, programming languages, and frameworks.
- Strong leadership, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience communicating quality risks and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
- Ability to coordinate business and technical teams during testing and defect resolution.
- Knowledge of accessibility and security testing best practices.
Rated Criteria:
- Test Leadership and Strategy - 40 Points
- Test Execution and Defect Management - 35 Points
- Communication and Reporting - 25 Points
Total: 100 Points Deliverables:
- Comprehensive test strategy documentation.
- Detailed test plans, schedules, scenarios, scripts, and procedures.
- Test execution reports including defect logs and resolution status.
- Traceability matrices and test coverage reports.
- Quality metrics dashboards and final test completion reports.
- Recommendations on release readiness and quality assessments.
Must Haves:
- Experience leading testing for large, complex digital or enterprise solutions.
- Proven ability to develop and maintain comprehensive test strategies and plans.
- Expertise in conducting functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, security, and user acceptance testing.
- Hands-on experience with both manual and automated testing approaches.
- Strong leadership skills to coordinate multidisciplinary teams and manage defect lifecycles.
- Ability to produce detailed quality reports and provide release readiness recommendations.
Public Sector Experience:
Preferred
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