Test Lead
Role Overview
Lead end-to-end testing activities, including requirement analysis, test planning, estimation, test design, execution, and defect management.
Collaborate with clients, business analysts, developers, and project managers to ensure quality deliverables and successful project execution.
Manage knowledge transition, resource planning, test environments, test data, and release coordination.
Drive process improvements, automation initiatives, quality compliance, audits, and metrics reporting.
Support UAT, defect prevention, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement through retrospectives and lessons learned.
Mentor team members, conduct performance coaching, identify training needs, and support overall team development.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role Summary
Lead end-to-end testing activities, including requirement analysis, test planning, estimation, test design, execution, and defect management.
Collaborate with clients, business analysts, developers, and project managers to ensure quality deliverables and successful project execution.
Manage knowledge transition, resource planning, test environments, test data, and release coordination.
Drive process improvements, automation initiatives, quality compliance, audits, and metrics reporting.
Support UAT, defect prevention, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement through retrospectives and lessons learned.
Mentor team members, conduct performance coaching, identify training needs, and support overall team development.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead test proposals by analysing requirements, effort estimation, resourcing needs, and recommending suitable testing tools.
- Manage knowledge transition activities, including KT planning, client coordination, documentation, and team training.
- Perform requirement analysis, create traceability matrices, identify gaps, and ensure completeness of test requirements.
- Develop test strategies, test plans, estimations, schedules, resource plans, and risk management approaches.
- Oversee test design, test data preparation, test execution, defect management, UAT support, and environment readiness.
- Coordinate release management activities, monitor project progress, and provide regular status updates to stakeholders.
- Drive process improvements, automation initiatives, knowledge management, and adoption of best practices.
- Ensure that team maintain manual and automated test cases using Selenium, UFT, Java, Cucumber/SpecFlow, and BDD frameworks.
- Ensure compliance with quality standards, audits, testing processes, and organizational guidelines.
- Prepare and analyse project metrics, SLAs, defect trends, and risk reports for management and clients.
- Conduct root cause analysis, retrospectives, test closure activities, and support go/no-go decisions.
- Mentor team members through performance management, coaching, training, conflict resolution, and leadership development.
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