Position: Senior Test Lead
Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite)
Job ID#: RQ11722
Duration: 12 Months
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Test Lead to lead quality assurance and testing activities across the solution delivery lifecycle. The successful candidate will define the overall testing strategy and oversee the development and execution of test plans, scenarios, scripts, defect management processes, and quality reporting activities. The role will leverage both manual and automated testing approaches to ensure solution quality and production readiness.
Key Responsibilities
Test Leadership & Strategy
- Lead
quality assurance and testing activities for large, complex digital or
enterprise solutions.
- Define
and maintain the project's testing strategy and quality-management
approach.
- Develop
comprehensive test strategies, plans, schedules, quality criteria, and
completion reports.
- Coordinate
multidisciplinary testing activities across various stakeholder groups.
- Establish
testing environments, test data requirements, entry and exit criteria, and
testing schedules.
Test Planning & Execution
- Develop
test plans, scenarios, scripts, procedures, and reports.
- Lead
testing activities using manual and automated testing approaches as
appropriate.
- Lead
functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility, performance,
security, and user acceptance testing.
- Identify
opportunities to increase testing efficiency and coverage through
automation.
- Coordinate
test environments, tools, accounts, data, and supporting resources.
- Establish
requirements traceability and test coverage reporting.
Defect Management & Quality Assurance
- Lead
defect triage activities and monitor defects through resolution and
closure.
- Manage
defects, test evidence, requirements traceability, and coverage reporting.
- Identify
testing risks, dependencies, constraints, and mitigation strategies.
- Assess
release readiness and residual quality risks.
- Provide
recommendations regarding solution quality and production readiness.
Reporting & Communication
- Report
on testing progress, quality indicators, outstanding defects, and release
risks.
- Communicate
quality risks, testing outcomes, and recommendations to senior
stakeholders.
- Coordinate
business and technical teams during testing and defect resolution
activities.
- Develop
test metrics, dashboards, traceability reports, and quality assessments.
Required Qualifications
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 supporting UI, API, and
database testing.
- 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.
Must-Have Skills
- Experience
leading testing for large, complex digital or enterprise solutions.
- Experience
developing comprehensive test strategies, plans, scenarios, scripts,
procedures, and completion reports.
- Experience
leading functional, integration, system, regression, accessibility,
performance, security, and user acceptance testing.
- Experience
with both automation and manual testing methodologies.
- Ability
to define and maintain testing strategy and quality management approaches.
- Experience
developing testing documentation, schedules, and reporting artifacts.
Work Arrangement
About Symbiotic Digital.
Symbiotic Digital provides the IT Experts you need that solve problems and get things done. See what the top 2% in their field can do for you. (Symbiotic Digital is a division of Symbiotic Group Inc.)
We serve customers in two ways, we provide:
- Digital
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- Recruitment:
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Serving IT & Business leaders, Symbiotic Digital provides a business system that enable us to provide the Expert Technical staff needed to solve challenging business and IT problems. IT leaders in the most reputable organizations in Canada have relied on Symbiotic Digital to help them staff difficult assignments with proven Experts uniquely evaluated by our proven QMS- Quality Management System Staff Development Model. We are a 100% Indigenous owned company.
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