RQ11722 - Test Lead - Senior
- Toronto, ON, Canada
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Job details
- Job type
- Contract
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
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.
More about this job
Responsibilities
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.
Skills
- 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
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Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Management & Leadership
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- Test Strategy
- Quality Assurance
- Test Automation
- Defect Management
- Functional Testing
- Integration Testing
- System Testing
- Regression Testing
- Accessibility Testing
- Performance Testing
- Security Testing
- User Acceptance Testing
- API Testing
- Database Testing
- Test Plans
- Test Scripts
- Test Environments
- Test Data
- Requirements Traceability
- Quality Reporting
- Release Readiness
- Enterprise Solutions
- Digital Solutions
- Test Metrics
- Defect Triage
- Test Frameworks
- Programming Languages
- Test Tools
- Risk Mitigation
- Stakeholder Management