Test Lead - Senior

Job Title: Test Lead - Senior

Location: Toronto

Work Model: Onsite

Duration: 11 months

Extension: 1 Time

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.

Description / Responsibilities / Skills

Description

• Leads quality assurance and testing across the delivery lifecycle.
• Directs defect-management processes and quality reporting, with test automation applied where appropriate.

Experience

• 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

• 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.

Experience & Skill Set Requirements

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 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.