BOR - One Senior Test Lead
Senior Test Lead to lead quality assurance and testing across the delivery lifecycle for complex digital or enterprise solutions.
- Organization
- Government Services Integration Cluster
- Location
- Toronto, Ontario
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Employment type
- Compensation
- $601/day
- Reference
- RQ11722
Overview
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.
Responsibilities
• 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.
Mandatory Qualifications
• 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.
Skills and Experience
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.
Test Leadership and Strategy - 40%
• 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 - 35%
• 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 - 25%
• 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.