Functional Test Lead

TekWissen•Mountlake Terrace, WA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Functional Test Lead organizes and manages testing processes and activities according to project requirements. The role plans and tracks testing, ensures test coverage and quality of deliverables, and produces test results, defect reports, test logs, root-cause analysis reports, and project status and metrics. It also supports adherence to engineering practices, processes, and standards; contributes to test automation and performance testing; and works with DevOps when needed to understand testing frameworks and QA processes for continuous testing. The position supports the team by coordinating test environments and test data, reviewing and executing test designs, preparing test summaries, analyzing requirements and user stories, identifying business-critical scenarios and risks, and managing test progress and defects. It also prepares estimates and schedules, tracks dependencies, maintains requirements traceability, contributes to knowledge management, and communicates with stakeholders through governance calls. This is a six-month temporary, onsite assignment in Mountlake Terrace, Washington. The posting identifies TekWissen as an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

Requirements

Ability to create, review, and manage a test plan.
Ability to prepare schedules based on estimates.
Ability to track and report progress and take corrective measures as needed.
Ability to identify test scenarios and prepare a requirements traceability matrix (RTM).
Ability to analyze requirements or user stories and prioritize testing.
Ability to conduct root-cause analysis (RCA).
Ability to capture and report metrics.
Ability to identify test data and test environment specifications.
Knowledge of estimation techniques.
Knowledge of testing standards.
Knowledge of identifying testing scope.
Knowledge of RCA techniques.
Knowledge of test design techniques.
Knowledge of test methodologies.
Knowledge of scope identification and planning.
Knowledge of test automation tools and frameworks.

Responsibilities

Create and organize the testing process based on project requirements and manage team test activities, estimates, and schedules.
Ensure test coverage and produce test results, defect reports, test logs, and reports as evidence of testing.
Publish root-cause analysis reports and preventive measures.
Ensure the quality of deliverables and report project metrics and status.
Ensure adherence to engineering practices, processes, and standards.
Contribute to test automation and performance testing, and work with DevOps as needed on testing frameworks and QA processes for continuous testing.
Ensure appropriate utilization and quality of team deliverables.
Coordinate test environment and test data provisioning.
Participate in test design, development, and execution, including reviews, walkthroughs, demos, and stakeholder sign-off.
Prepare test summary reports for modules and features.
Analyze and prioritize requirements, identify gaps, and create workflow diagrams based on requirements or user stories.
Participate in test management and prepare, track, and report test progress against schedules.
Identify business processes, conduct risk analysis, and ensure test coverage.
Prepare estimates and schedules and identify dependencies.
Consume, contribute to, and review knowledge materials, including best practices, lessons learned, and retrospectives.
Prepare test plans, create test cases and scripts, and execute tests.
Identify risks and issues and prepare mitigation and contingency plans.
Conduct root-cause and trend analysis of defects.
Identify test scenarios based on systems, interfaces, and applications, including end-to-end business-critical scenarios.
Create and review test scenarios and prepare a requirements traceability matrix (RTM).
Prepare time and effort estimates based on requirements or user stories and identify testing scope.
Define engagement KPIs and ensure adherence to them.
Handle weekly or monthly governance calls and represent team issues.
Track testing productivity, defect leakage, test-case reuse, execution coverage, defect acceptance, test review efficiency, delivery timeliness, effort variance, and test automation coverage.