Senior Test Lead

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 5 days onsite. 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.)

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