Test Lead - Senior

Job Summary

The Senior Test Lead will lead quality assurance and testing activities throughout the delivery lifecycle of complex digital and enterprise solutions. The successful candidate will define and maintain the overall test strategy, develop comprehensive test plans, coordinate manual and automated testing, and oversee defect management and quality reporting.

The role involves collaborating with business stakeholders, developers, architects, security specialists, privacy teams, and operational teams to ensure that solutions meet business requirements, quality standards, and production-readiness criteria.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the overall test strategy and quality-management approach.
  
  
• Develop test plans, schedules, scenarios, scripts, procedures, and completion reports.
  
  
• Lead end-to-end testing across functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, security, and user acceptance testing.
  
  
• Apply manual and automated testing approaches to improve test coverage, efficiency, and reliability.
  
  
• Identify and implement suitable test automation tools, programming languages, frameworks, and testing practices.
  
  
• Coordinate test environments, test data, accounts, tools, and supporting resources.
  
  
• Establish test entry and exit criteria, test schedules, and requirements traceability.
  
  
• Lead defect triage, prioritize issues, and track defects through resolution, retesting, and closure.
  
  
• Develop test metrics, dashboards, traceability reports, and quality assessments.
  
  
• Identify testing risks, dependencies, constraints, and mitigation strategies.
  
  
• Communicate testing progress, outstanding defects, quality indicators, and release risks to stakeholders.
  
  
• Provide evidence-based recommendations on solution quality and production readiness.
  
  
  
  
  

Requirements

Required Experience and Qualifications

Test Leadership and Strategy

• Demonstrated experience leading end-to-end testing for large, complex digital or enterprise solutions.
  
  
• Experience developing comprehensive test strategies, test plans, schedules, quality criteria, and completion reports.
  
  
• Experience coordinating testing activities across multidisciplinary business and technical teams.
  
  
• Ability to establish testing standards, quality processes, and effective test governance.
  
  

Test Execution and Defect Management

• Experience leading functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance, security, and user acceptance testing.
  
  
• Hands-on understanding of both manual testing and test automation.
  
  
• Experience developing and executing test scenarios, scripts, and procedures.
  
  
• Experience managing defects from identification and prioritization through resolution, retesting, and closure.
  
  
• Experience maintaining requirements traceability, test evidence, and test-coverage reports.
  
  
• Ability to evaluate residual quality risks and assess release readiness.
  
  

Communication and Reporting

• Strong leadership, facilitation, analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
  
  
• Experience communicating testing outcomes, quality risks, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
  
  
• Ability to coordinate business and technical teams during testing and defect resolution.
  
  
• Experience preparing test progress reports, dashboards, quality metrics, and completion documentation.
  
  

Technical Skills

Candidates should demonstrate relevant experience with:

• Manual testing methodologies and processes.
  
  
• Test automation tools, frameworks, and approaches.
  
  
• Functional, integration, system, regression, and acceptance testing.
  
  
• Accessibility, performance, and security testing.
  
  
• UI, API, and database testing approaches.
  
  
• Defect tracking and test-management tools.
  
  
• Test environments, test data management, and requirements traceability.
  
  
• Quality metrics, dashboards, and release-readiness reporting.