Test Lead

Project description Test Lead for a leading Digital Bank as part of Core Banking Transformation. Responsibilities Participate in the planning, monitoring, and control of the testing activities and tasks. Actively participate in workshops, specification reviews, and technical reviews. Implement testing as per Test Strategy and provide inputs to Test Strategy. Create Test Plan, derive project-specific estimates. Plan and coordinate test activities/deliverables in accordance with test schedule. Facilitate the daily scrum and sprint initiatives. Communicate with stakeholders & provide Test Reports. Raise & manage project-specific risks and issues. Measure the quality of work & asses team members' work. Capture traceability metrics (requirements, test cases, test execution, defects). Build team & necessary documentation to enable mentoring of new members. Report upon testing activities, including Test Summary Reports Review testing entry/exit criteria Identify test environment requirements Coordinate shakedown testing for project test environments. Management of test data requirements SKILLS Must have 10+ years of experience in quality assurance 5+ years of experience as a Test Lead Strong experience in testing of Core Banking mainframe systems and testing banking Mortgages - Loan serving, end to end loan processing Participating in preparation of quality assessments, reports, and metrics formulating go-no go statement based on reports and metrics, test progress and defect status Presenting test improvements and developments in daily progress meetings including planned vs actuals. Acting as the main liaison communicating between the team the rest of the internal and external organization Lead execution of planned test cases, ensuring that all test results are correctly recorded against the system Develop detailed work plans for engagements, status tracking and reporting, and production of high-quality deliverables for clients Responsible for all Test, Test Tools Development and configuration management activities Experience in test planning and strategies Extended experience in SDLC and STLC QA methodology - Waterfall, Agile Testing and quality - Manual and test process management, testing governance, and guidelines Social skills - Interpersonal skills, Stakeholder management, conflict management Nice to have • Test Automation