IT Test Lead

Massachusetts  ‐ Onsite
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Description

GENERAL TEST LEAD JOB REQUIREMENTS
1. Manage all project test phases and testing activities including leads from all functional areas of testing, as applicable, including Test Estimates, Unit, Integration and System Testing, and Performance, Load and Stress Testing, and User Acceptance testing.
2. Review requirements, business and system use cases, technical specifications, test plans, test summary and testing deliverables provided to or by the testing team.
3. Develop the Requirements Ambiguity review.
4. Develop and complete the Test Strategy and Test Plan.
5. Coordinate the identification of Test data needs and timely test data preparation.
6. Coordinate with the Solution Architect and Technical Lead to manage the test environments.
7. Ensure the Test Cases and Test Scripts required to test all system interfaces are completed by assigned personnel on the testing team according to the project schedule.
8. Manage the testing activities of the testing team for Systems testing, Performance testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
9. Work with Standards & QA Team to manage all test activities in HP Quality Center and in accordance with the Quality Gate Reviews.
10. Perform a formal System Test Readiness Review and UAT Test Readiness Review.
11. Perform defect triage and resolution including recording details of test executions.
12. Report test status on a weekly basis - publish reports on Defect Management, Test Progress and Test Metrics.
13. Develop post-production quality metrics and participate in lessons learned document and project close out meeting.

PROJECT SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS
1. Demonstrated experience leading testing programs including test strategy, test plans, requirements traceability, developing test schedules and resourcing testing teams.
2. Knowledge of applying Quality Assurance (QA) checkpoints to monitor and improve testing in Real Time.
3. Demonstrated experience planning, executing and overseeing testing programs for Web or SaaS based applications that involve complex IT systems that comprise vendor supplied components and additionally require interfacing and integrating numerous internal and external interfaces for Legacy company IT systems.
4. Demonstrated experience designing and conducting testing programs for a project that includes both for traditional waterfall software development and also iterative/prototyping software development methodologies.
5. Experience with the HP Testing tools, including HP Quality Center, HP Performance Center, and HP Unified Functional Test.
6. Experience with Quick Test Professional test scripts.
7. Ability to partner with a vendor Test Lead and collaboratively execute and oversee a successful testing program.
8. Ability to summarize and communicate effectively at weekly status meetings with the project.
9. Lead and/or participating in testing/development team meetings to review work as needed.
10. May assist in the actual writing of test cases.
ADDITIONAL SKILLS AND TRAITS
1. Experience testing Web Services or Applications containing/using Web Services.
2. Familiarity in testing Web based applications.
3. Excellent time management skills.
4.,A background interfacing with users in Business Acceptance and User Acceptance Testing.
5. Familiarity and experience working with various SDLC methodologies and participating in all aspects of project life cycles.
Start date
n.a
From
Synectics
Published at
25.06.2015
Project ID:
931048
Contract type
Freelance
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