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- Employment type
- Contract
- Experience level
- Senior · 5+ years
- Posting language
- English
- Working hours
- 40 hours per week
Job summary
The Test Lead will define and maintain the overall test strategy and quality-management approach across the delivery lifecycle. They are responsible for directing the development and execution of test plans, managing defects, and providing evidence-based recommendations regarding release readiness.
Job details
Description: Leads quality assurance and testing across the delivery lifecycle. Defines the overall test strategy and directs the development and execution of test plans, scenarios, scripts, defect-management processes, and quality reporting, with test automation applied where appropriate. Requirements Experience and Skill Set Requirements: Must Haves: Experience leading testing for large, complex digital or enterprise solutions. Experience developing comprehensive test strategies, test plans, scenarios, scripts, procedures, and completion reports. Experience leading functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, security, and user acceptance testing. Experience both automation and manual testing Define and maintain the project’s test strategy and quality-management approach. Develop test plans, schedules, scenarios, scripts, procedures, and reports. Skill Set Requirements: Experience: Experience leading testing for large, complex digital or enterprise solutions. Experience developing comprehensive test strategies, test plans, scenarios, scripts, procedures, and completion reports. Experience leading functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, security, and user acceptance testing. Experience using test automation tools and approaches to support user-interface, API, or database testing where appropriate. Experience selecting and applying testing tools, programming languages, frameworks, and quality practices. Experience establishing test environments, test data, entry and exit criteria, and test schedules. Experience coordinating testing across business, development, architecture, security, privacy, and operational teams. Experience managing defects through identification, prioritization, resolution, retesting, and closure. Experience developing test metrics, dashboards, traceability reports, and quality assessments. Experience providing evidence-based recommendations regarding release readiness. General Skills / Duties: Define and maintain the project’s test strategy and quality-management approach. Develop test plans, schedules, scenarios, scripts, procedures, and reports. Lead testing activities using manual and automated approaches, as appropriate. Identify opportunities to use test automation to improve efficiency and coverage. Coordinate test environments, tools, accounts, data, and supporting resources. Establish requirements traceability and test-coverage reporting. Lead defect triage and monitor defects through resolution and closure. Identify testing risks, dependencies, constraints, and mitigation strategies. Report testing progress, quality indicators, outstanding defects, and release risks. Provide recommendations on solution quality and production readiness. Experience and Skill Set Requirements: Test Leadership and Strategy: Experience leading end-to-end testing for complex digital solutions. Experience developing test strategies, plans, schedules, quality criteria, and completion reports. Experience coordinating multidisciplinary testing activities. Test Execution and Defect Management: Experience leading functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, and acceptance testing. Experience managing defects, test evidence, requirements traceability, and test coverage. Experience assessing release readiness and residual quality risk. Communication and Reporting: Excellent leadership, facilitation, reporting, 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.
What you’ll do
The Test Lead will define and maintain the overall test strategy and quality-management approach across the delivery lifecycle. They are responsible for directing the development and execution of test plans, managing defects, and providing evidence-based recommendations regarding release readiness.
Requirements
Candidates must have extensive experience leading testing for large, complex digital or enterprise solutions using both manual and automated approaches. Proficiency in developing comprehensive test strategies, managing multidisciplinary teams, and reporting on quality metrics is required.
Listed skills
- Quality assurance · Preferred
- Leadership · Preferred
Other relevant skills
Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.
- Test Strategy
- Test Automation
- Defect Management
- Quality Assurance
- Test Planning
- Functional Testing
- Regression Testing
- Performance Testing
- Security Testing
- Accessibility Testing
- API Testing
- Database Testing
- Test Metrics
- Requirements Traceability
- Release Readiness
- Leadership
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Test Tools
- Quality Assessment
- Test Automation Tools
- Production Readiness
- Programming Languages
- Acceptance Testing
- Application Programming Interface (API)
- Automation
- Business Development
- Dashboard
- Code Coverage
- Communication
- Traceability
- Problem Solving
- Risk Management
- Manual Testing
- QC Reporting
- Quality Management
- System Testing
- Test Data Generation
- Test Execution Engine
- Triage
- User Interface (UI)
- Coordinating
- Mitigation
- Prioritization
Job areas
- Technology
- Software
- Management & Leadership
- Data & Analytics
- Test Lead/Manager
- Software QA Lead
- Software and Applications Developers and Analysts Not Elsewhere Classified
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
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