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Test Lead

The test lead has the responsibility for planning, performing, and evaluating tests before a system or products are released.

Description​

He/she collaborates with release owners, product owners, teams, and other stakeholders to understand the requirements and how to verify them.

The test lead ensures (together with test engineers) that the requirements are testable by working with the product owners to define the acceptance criteria for features. The test lead collaborates with the product owner and provides the result of the tests before the feature is closed.

The overall test result is communicated to stakeholders by the test lead. Critical and high-level bugs are followed up to closure with the teams. The test lead is also responsible for creating an efficient test process and test environment. He/she promotes automated tests when it is possible from a time/cost perspective.

The test lead role exists both in the system and development streams when there is a need to manage tests and coordinate test engineers from a product/system perspective.

Responsibilities​

  • Release-wise test strategy and plan document creation, considering all product integration test strategies at the system level.
  • Track all test artifacts and test metrics.
  • Highlight all issues/concerns/blockers.
  • In case of multiple locations involved, he/she should allocate epics in respective streams and synchronize.
  • Synchronize with other test leads and track the test progress.
  • If part of system stream, responsible for system integration test and system type test (STT) activities.
  • Focus on stabilization at the system level and validation of all functional & non-functional requirements on the Epics level and follow definition of done (DoD) with acceptance criteria defined and all system-level documentation validation.
  • Support DevOps & Operational Excellence (OpEx) for continuous feedback.
  • Provide demo to relevant stakeholders.