Test Lead & Coordinator

Key Responsibilities

• Cook up test planning, schedules, and execution activities across multiple projects, releases, and environments.
• Maintain visibility into test readiness, dependencies, environment availability, and impacted downstream teams.
• Partner with project managers, technology leads, testers, and business stakeholders to ensure test coverage is complete and aligned to scope.
• Track execution progress, blocked tests, defects, retesting needs, and open risks.
• Support creation and organization of test plans, test cases, and test scripts with a strong focus on traceability and completeness.
• Manage defect follow-up, coordinate triage discussions, and ensure issues are progressed through resolution and retesting.
• Maintain accurate testing status, issues, and reporting in Jira or similar tools.
• Communicate clear, fact-based updates on testing progress, blockers, risks, and decision needs.
• Identify gaps, conflicts, and improvement opportunities across the testing lifecycle.
• Help strengthen repeatable testing processes, governance routines, dashboards, and reporting practices.

Requirements

• Experience in test coordination, test lead, quality assurance, technology delivery, or project execution roles.
• A strong understanding of test planning, test case management, test execution, defect tracking, retesting, and completion reporting.
• Experience working with Jira or similar agile/project tracking tools.
• The ability to manage multiple testing cycles, priorities, dependencies, and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify gaps, risks, dependencies, and incomplete coverage.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to summarize testing status, issues, and risks clearly.
• The ability to work independently, organize complex information, and drive follow-up without constant direction.
• Comfort working with technical teams, project managers, application owners, testers, and downstream consumers.
• A strong attention to detail and commitment to accurate status reporting.
• The ability to challenge assumptions constructively and think beyond obvious test scenarios.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise data, data integration, batch processing, interface testing, or downstream data consumption.
• Experience coordinating testing across multiple applications, workstreams, or environments.
• Familiarity with test dashboards, reporting metrics, execution tracking, and defect aging reports.
• Experience with QV or similar non-production testing environments.
• Experience supporting integration testing, regression testing, release testing, or production readiness validation.
• Experience documenting testing strategies, operating models, process flows, or governance routines.
• Familiarity with automation opportunities related to test execution, reporting, or evidence capture.
• The ability to understand data movement, upstream/downstream dependencies, job execution, and operational impacts.
• Experience with SQL, GCP, and Python to support data analysis, validation, troubleshooting, and testing activities.