Role Summary:
- Seek an experienced Contract Test Lead to support Project Petabyte TJ3, a high-visibility manufacturing and digital transformation initiative focused on standing up a new manufacturing facility.
- Lead the planning, coordination, governance, and quality oversight for testing across functional, integration/SIT, end-to-end, UAT, regression, and performance/load testing activities.
- Bring strong interpersonal skills, leadership presence, executive-level communication, and the ability to drive accountability across business, manufacturing, digital, infrastructure, MES, and application teams.
Test Strategy, Planning, and Governance:
- Develop and maintain the overall test strategy for Project Petabyte TJ3, including scope, approach, phases, quality gates, entry/exit criteria, and evidence expectations.
- Build a practical test plan aligned with project milestones, including Digital Go-Live, pilot production readiness, and full production readiness.
- Establish testing governance, templates, quality checkpoints, and milestone review structure for Central Testing and project stakeholders.
- Define and communicate testing expectations across functional, SIT, E2E, UAT, regression, and performance/load testing.
- Create and maintain a structured test asset model in Azure DevOps Test Plans, including scenarios, test cases, execution evidence, defects, and reporting dashboards.
- Drive traceability between business requirements, process/design flows, test scenarios, defects, and readiness decisions.
Cross-Functional Coordination and Leadership:
- Serve as the primary testing coordination lead across Central Testing, project leadership, business process owners, application teams, infrastructure teams, MES stakeholders, and performance testing resources.
- Lead testing discussions in project forums, critical path meetings, readiness reviews, and defect triage sessions.
- Coordinate with project teams to confirm test ownership across functional, SIT, UAT, performance, and defect resolution activities.
- Drive accountability for test deliverables, open dependencies, blockers, risks, and mitigation plans.
- Communicate clearly and confidently with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including project leadership.
- Provide concise, risk-based quality status updates for leadership review.
- Partner with project teams to define and track environment dependencies, access needs, test data setup, and readiness blockers.
- Help define a pragmatic approach for test data provisioning, refresh, masking where needed, and scenario-based data preparation.
- Ensure environment and data gaps are visible in readiness reporting and risk tracking.
Test Design and Readiness Enablement:
- Coordinate test case design for manufacturing, MES, digital applications, SAP/Vault touchpoints, and critical business process scenarios.
- Ensure test cases include clear steps, expected results, evidence requirements, data needs, and traceability.
- Partner with business users and SMEs to validate test scenarios against real manufacturing workflows.
- Support UAT preparation by helping business stakeholders understand test scope, execution expectations, and evidence requirements.
- Identify regression scenarios that can be reused or adapted from TJ2 / Coil artifacts.
- Facilitate creation of test scenarios/cases in Azure DevOps.
Defect Management and Quality Risk Reporting:
- Establish and enforce disciplined defect logging standards.
- Facilitate defect triage meetings and drive resolution follow-up with application, infrastructure, MES, and business teams.
- Track quality risks, blockers, open decisions, environment issues, test data gaps, and unresolved defects.
- Escalate critical risks early with clear impact statements and recommended actions.
Performance and Load Testing Coordination:
- Coordinate with the Performance Test Engineer to define performance testing scope, non-functional requirements, tooling approach, environment needs, and execution timeline.
- Help gather business scenarios, expected usage patterns, transaction volumes, peak load assumptions, and performance acceptance criteria.
- Ensure performance testing is planned early enough to support Digital Go-Live readiness.
- Track performance test dependencies, risks, results, findings, and remediation actions.
- Partner with stakeholders to translate performance results into quality and readiness recommendations.
