Software Testing Team Lead

Job Description

• Define the testing type and testing strategy based on the project nature and approve it from Development manager for the release/ project.
• Identify how his/her test team align with the organization and how his/her team would achieve the roadmap identified for the project and the organization.
• Identify the tools for test reporting, test management, test automation, and educate the team on how to use those tools.
• Define the project/release risks and issues related to testing phase.
• Plan knowledge transfer sessions if required to the team members for the tools that they would use.
• Review the iteration test cases.
• Participate in release planning activities (user story writing workshop, size estimation, dry run, release date)
• Analyze and prepare impact analysis for proposed change requests.
• Meet with customers to understand the scope of projects as a needed
• Participate in the collection and documentation of user's requirements.
• Prepare testing work breakdown structure (WBS) for the user stories/ project.
• Prepare the effort estimation for testing task.
• Participate in preparing test cases and testing scenarios for the user's requirements (user stories/use case) as needed.
• Participate in execution test cases and test scenarios (manual or automated), and analyze results as needed.
• Participate in the integration and regression test on the iteration.
• Prepare the validation plan.
• Participate in the validation tasks on the final product according to validation plan.
• Participate in preparing test report for a final product.
• Participate in recording the bug in the bug tracking system.
• Track all major, critical and acceptance criteria bugs into closure.
• Participate in preparing the release note
• Re-plan test plan and tasks for approved change requests as needed.
• Ensure that there is no delay in achieving the schedule, hold discussions with testers to figure out the issues that they may be facing, and strive hard to resolve them.