RQ11722 - Test Lead - Senior

Maarut; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Maarut in Toronto seeks a senior QA Lead to own quality across the delivery lifecycle. You will define the test strategy, direct the development and execution of test plans, and drive defect management with dashboards and reports, applying automation where appropriate.

Lead testing across functional, integration, system, performance, accessibility, security, and user acceptance testing. Coordinate with business, development, architecture, privacy, and operations teams to ensure production

Qualifications

• Must have 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.
• Lead testing activities using manual and automated approaches, as appropriate.

Responsibilities

• Lead testing activities using manual and automated approaches, as appropriate.
• 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.

Skills

Test leadership

Test strategy

Manual testing

Automation testing

Defect management

Cross-functional coordination

Quality reporting

Tools

Test automation tools

CI/CD

Scripting

Job description

• 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.
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

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.
  

Skill Set Requirements:

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.
  

General Skills / Duties:

• 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.
  

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Test Leadership and Strategy:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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.