Role overview

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.