Senior Testing Lead — QA Team Coach & Release Quality

Itproposal; Brussel Hoofdstad; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Itproposal in Brussels seeks an experienced Team Lead Testing to lead and coordinate a testing team responsible for planning and executing SAT, functional, sanity, regression and release-related testing.

The Team Lead will serve as a key contact between test coordinators, test managers, analysts and testing resources, combining test coordination, team leadership, coaching, planning, reporting and quality management. Testing is mainly Waterfall with Agile/Scrum practices gradually introduced.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of experience as a functional tester.
• Minimum 8 years of experience as a Team Lead in a testing environment.
• Minimum 8 years of experience coordinating distributed and complex teams.
• Minimum 6 years of proven experience as a people manager and coach.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Test Coordinator.
• Proven experience writing test strategies and preparing test scenarios.
• Strong knowledge of formal test methods and techniques.
• Proven experience with SQL, including writing and executing queries.
• Experience with SOAP/UI, XML and SQL.
• Strong experience with Waterfall testing methodology.
• Experience within the Belgian energy sector.
• Ability to read Technical Design Documents with if/then/else logic.
• CEFR C1 English
• CEFR C1 Dutch or French
• Experience as a tester in Agile/Scrum projects.
• Experience with DevOps and VBScript.
• Experience with test automation

Responsabilités

• Lead, coordinate and coach a testing team.
• Act as a central point of contact for test coordinators and test management.
• Ensure optimal team performance, knowledge sharing and resource allocation.
• Coordinate test planning and ensure required test resources are available.
• Define and maintain clear test scope, test scenarios and test strategies.
• Monitor testing progress, quality, risks and defects.
• Report test activities and risks to management and stakeholders.
• Identify knowledge gaps and performance issues and take mitigating actions.
• Ensure resources are allocated to testing activities efficiently.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and cross-testing across domains.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure product quality throughout the lifecycle.
• Support defect analysis and follow-up during major releases.
• Coordinate testing across distributed teams and stakeholders.
• Execute and coordinate functional, sanity and regression testing.
• Support ad hoc testing requests from analysts.
• Communicate with stakeholders in Dutch, French and/or English as required.

Connaissances

Functional testing

Team leadership

Distributed teams coordination

People management

Test coordination

Test strategies

SQL

SOAP/UI

XML

Waterfall

Agile/Scrum testing

English (CEFR C1)

Dutch/French (CEFR C1)

Formation

ISTQB Foundation level or higher

Outils

SQL

SOAP/UI

XML

VBScript

DevOps

Test automation tools

Description du poste

Itproposal in Brussels seeks an experienced Team Lead Testing to lead and coordinate a testing team responsible for planning and executing SAT, functional, sanity, regression and release-related testing.

The Team Lead will serve as a key contact between test coordinators, test managers, analysts and testing resources, combining test coordination, team leadership, coaching, planning, reporting and quality management. Testing is mainly Waterfall with Agile/Scrum practices gradually introduced.