Software Tester - Senior Consultant Closed

Strategy & Governance  

• Define and evolve the testing strategy (shift‑left, risk‑based testing, BDD/TDD, contract testing) across squads and products. 

• Establish common standards and templates (test strategy, plan, RTM, exit criteria) aligned to recognized practices (e.g., ISTQB foundations, ISO/IEC 29119 test documentation, OWASP Testing Guide). 

• Create and run quality governance (readiness/exit gates, defect SLAs, change failure rate tracking) and own QA OKRs for the division. 

• Maintain a test architecture roadmap (frameworks, environments, data, observability) and drive tool consolidation. 

Test Engineering & Automation 

• Own end‑to‑end automation strategy: UI, API, contract, component, and smoke/regression suites integrated into CI/CD. 

• Ensure maintainable frameworks, coding standards, and code reviews; champion modular page/object models, data builders, and parallelization. 

• Ability to define and achieve comprehensive test coverage across functional, non-functional, and automation layers to ensure quality and risk mitigation 

• Plan and execute performance, scalability, resilience, and security testing; collaborate with engineering on tuning and hardening. 

• Define SLOaligned test goals (latency, throughput, error rate) and bake checks into pipelines. 

Stakeholder Management & Communication 

• Partner with Product, Architecture, Cybersecurity, and Compliance to balance risk, speed, and regulatory requirements. 

• Provide clear dashboards and release readiness reports; communicate tradeoffs and recommendations to leadership. 

• Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary squad (automation, functional, performance, security) serving multiple applications; manage capacity, prioritization, and crossteam engagement.  

• Stand up shared services for regression, performance & security testing, test data management, and environment orchestration.  

• Coach squads on story quality (acceptance criteria, testability, Definition of Ready/Done) and facilitate test planning in sprint cadences. 

Continuous Improvement 

• Lead retrospectives and incident reviews (escaped defects, production issues) to improve prevention. 

• Drive skills development (automation, performance, security) and keep the team current with tooling and methods.