Test Lead (Telco) Daily Rate

Daily Rate - 6 months+

Essence of Role - Key Accountabilities

PLANNING

- Responsible for development of test strategy and approach across multiple projects being delivered in a release or standalone
- Responsible for identifying which projects require cross vendor testing and which projects in a release require cross project testing
- Provide input into overall release planning as part of annual planning
- Create and maintain overall test plan (end to end view), to include cycles, scenarios and number of passes required to ensure end to end test coverage requirements are met
- Verify vendor test plans in terms of coverage, dependencies and schedule alignment
- Liaise with other testing stakeholders to agree their participation in End to End testing
- Identification of testing resource requirements from all impacted projects and stakeholders (Vendors/Operations/Business/Etc.)
- Development of testing resourcing plan, which clarifies vendor, 3rd party, contractor and VF allocation of resources
- Develop and provide test requirements and estimates for projects planning
- Responsible for development and management of test phase schedule and alignment of all phases/vendors
- Ensure all acceptance, entry and exit criteria are defined and agreed for each test phase
- Responsible for planning, set up and management of data requirements throughout all stages of testing life cycle and taking into account all stakeholder testing requirements
- Define test tool requirements and ensure tools are in place for test phases
- Co-ordinate, with vendors, management of system & environment requirements and transition of these through the each stage of project life cycle
- For projects which do not have their own Test Lead, prepare test approach/plan/material
- Liase with the Live Trials lead to ensure synergy in approach for Live Trial and test approach on previous phases of testing

EXECUTION

- Coordination of functional and non-functional test execution across all parties involved
- Responsible for ensuring execution of non-functional testing & Back End validation of updates across all impacted systems
- Responsible for ensuring that cross vendor testing within projects is planned and executed
- Responsible for ensuring that cross project integration testing is planned and executed
- Ensure appropriate level of negative testing has been performed
- Triage lead across multiple vendors to ensure that required end to end test coverage requirements can be met
- Responsible for Test Phase Signoff and Exit Reports (closeout)
- Tracking prioritisation, resolution and escalation of defects
- Ensure estimated timeframes are accepted and met
- Prepare test summary reports
- Test number management across all environments utilised for E2E testing

MANAGEMENT

- Prepare, document and communicate risk analysis of outstanding issues and defects
- Communicating - reporting of progress and effective escalation of issues
- Quality assurance of deliverables
- Review and management of project changes and impacts during project life cycle on testing plan
- Management of test resources during test life cycle stages
- Management of contingency/unplanned testing
- Manage planning and execution of Regression testing as required
- Communicate with all key stakeholders - eg Project Manager, participate in gate reviews, etc.
- Proactively engage with project managers/release managers to ensure timely resolution of issues
- Produce closeout documentation
- Development and support measurement of KPIs and service targets within each phase of testing life cycle