Job Title: Senior Quality Assurance Test Lead
Pay Rate: Flexible
Location: Toronto, ON – Hybrid
Contract Length: 5 months
We at Raise are hiring right now for one of our Ontario Public Sector Clients. If you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.
Description
Standard Responsibilities:
Leading a team of testing professionals in providing a broad range of test services and solutions, ensuring established standards are met, planned objectives are achieved and assuring all work within the established LCBO Frameworks for testing planning, delivery, execution, measurement and continuous process improvement.
Pro-active engagement with all involved stakeholders (project team members, third party vendors/ service partners and IT teams) to deliver all phases of testing
Provide input to and review of Project Test Strategy, Test Plan and Entry/Exit criteria with appropriate project partners
Manage, create, and deliver testing plans that align with the SDLC selected for the project
Ensure the test process, methodologies and tools are applied appropriately and track test phase entry/exit criteria as agreed to by all stakeholders
Lead the team in planning, preparing and executing effective test efforts for all phases of FSM testing across multiple releases
Responsible for review and interpretation of requirement traceability matrix to driving testing business requirements
Primary liaison for testing resources and business participants on user acceptance test support
Manage and support the release QA team in creating reusable test assets for both manual and automated test scripts for all phases of testing
Monitor, assess and mitigate testing risks; monitor and track testing progress
Manage the defect process ensuring defects are documented, tracked and reported to facilitate timely fixes
Ensure timely notification of issues/problems and make recommendations for issue/problem resolution to project team and resolve and/or escalate testing issues where required
Report the status of test planning, defects and execution activities, including regular status updated to the project team using quality metrics
Prioritize testing tasks based on goals and risks of projects and ensure testing milestones, activities and tasks are completed as scheduled
Manage effective use of testing tools and testing automation process fundamentals
Contribute to project readiness assessments and participate and contribute to lessons learned
Lead the continuous, measured improvement of testing processes, strategies, plans and frameworks
Provide assistance/guidance to direct reports on policy, procedures, testing tasks and training in general.
Interpersonal Skills and Experience:
Minimum 10 years of experience working in an SAP as a Quality Assurance Lead/Manager or similar role
Minimum 10 years of experience working in an SAP project environment with +5 project implementations delivered
Expert knowledge of Business Processes in Supply Chain, Finance, Merchandising, Marketing, Retail, WMS an asset
Highly developed written and verbal communication skills, with the proven ability to communicate openly and effectively with all levels of diverse functional groups to achieve mutual understandings and results
Promotes an environment conducive to creativity; always seeking and receptive to new ideas and approaches
Strong analytical and technical investigation skills
Effective listening skills and flexibility in approach to solutions
Demonstrated ability to work independently
Ability to reliably execute to a plan and demonstrated dependability and ownership to ensure project success
Expert level experience in Test Management Tools; experience with Jira considered an asset
Experience in test integration
Experience in project management
Experience in coaching
Knowledge in best practice in quality assurance
Work Requirements:
Minimum 3 days per week onsite (one mandatory day per week on either Monday or Friday) to foster collaboration, ensure team alignment, and provide hands-on leadership within fast-moving retail transformation initiatives.
Project (already in flight):
LCBO embarks upon a multi-year, organization-wide program called Future State Modernization (FSM). FSM will re-build and strengthen the foundations of our IT infrastructure, systems, processes, and program management to create flexibility and agility to support our business model, increase efficiency, and enable our business to transform.
Must haves:
Minimum 10 years of experience working in an SAP as a Quality Assurance Lead/Manager or similar role
Minimum 10 years of experience working in an SAP project environment with +5 project implementations delivered
Nice to Haves:
Expert knowledge of Business Processes in Supply Chain, Finance, Merchandising, Marketing, Retail, WMS an asset
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