Project Test Lead

Pay Rate: $81.18/hour, depending on experience

Contract Length: 8 Months

Location: Calgary, Alberta

Raise is currently hiring a Senior Project Test Lead on behalf of our client. They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader. Our Client, is a major Canadian airline.

Note: The primary pay rate is based on T4 classification; however, we will also consider applications from candidates interested in an INC classification, where applicable.

Description

As our client continues to modernize their guest experience, they are seeking a highly skilled Project Test Lead to join our team. This pivotal role will focus on a critical business initiative: integrating a new Meal Voucher Vendor into our Disruption Management System to seamlessly handle rebooking’s and support impacted guests during flight disruptions.

The Project Test Lead will be responsible for developing a holistic test plan covering the end-to-end test scope for all teams and applications involved in this integration. You will ensure robust test coverage, strict traceability, and seamless defect management, while identifying and mitigating test-related risks across multiple overlapping workstreams.

The ideal candidate is a strong communicator who can collaborate effectively with business Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), product teams, and senior stakeholders to align on testing processes, ensuring a highly successful and reliable deployment.

Responsibilities

• Test Strategy & Planning
• Analysis & Scope: Perform thorough requirements and architecture analysis to gain deep technical and functional knowledge. Review test scope across all phases to ensure appropriate coverage, proactively flagging gaps.
• Master Test Plan: Create comprehensive test plans illustrating planned coverage, testing types/phases, application footprints, entry/exit criteria, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Data & Environment Strategy: Architect a centralized test data plan to service all test teams across every phase of the project lifecycle.
• Test Execution & Coordination
• End-to-End Coordination: Write clear E2E test scenarios and coordinate the creation and execution of E2E test cases across two or more distinct product teams and legacy airline systems.
• Traceability & Review: Review test cases across product teams and build a robust traceability matrix mapping test cases directly back to business requirements.
• UAT Support: Partner with Business SMEs to align on UAT coverage, provide requirement-to-test mapping, and publish known issues prior to the start of testing.
• Hands-on Support: Monitor resource plans to ensure workstreams are adequately staffed. If necessary, be prepared to step in and execute test cases if risk mitigation plans fall short.
• Process & Defect Management
• Tooling & Standards: Partner with the Quality Management Office (QMO) to define test and defect management tooling and develop highly efficient, reusable tracking processes.
• Defect Triage: Chair regular defect triage meetings, ensuring defect logging standards are met and appropriate severity/priority levels are assigned for swift resolution.
• Continuous Improvement: Hold comprehensive project test retrospectives to document lessons learned, successes, and actionable improvements for future phases.
• Stakeholder Communication & Reporting
• Communication Plans: Establish QA communication frameworks to provide clear lines of support for testers and set accurate status expectations for leadership.
• Metrics & Reporting: Actively track and communicate test execution status, defect metrics, quality indicators, and project risks to Project Managers and organizational leaders.
• Deployment Readiness: Produce high-level project test summaries detailing outstanding risks to directly inform go/no-go deployment decisions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on experience leading QA teams, test execution cycles, and cross-functional testing workstreams.
• 7+ years of experience evaluating complex technical test scope and authoring comprehensive master test plans.
• Proven expertise in requirements analysis, test case management, and defect triage management best practices.
• Direct experience building requirement-to-test case traceability matrices for complex multi-system integrations.
• Proven track record of conducting risk assessments and successfully executing QA-related mitigation plans.
• Education and Certifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Certifications (Nice to Have):
• ISTQB Advanced Level (Test Manager) or equivalent QA certifications.
• PMP (Project Management Professional) or CAPM is a strong asset.

Additional Information

Our client asks that candidates provide 2 Endorsements/References at the time of application: ( this could be a colleague/manager that worked with you on Recent Projects that relate to this role Ask them to provide a Quick Endorsement - testimonial in point form of your accomplishment / value added) to highlight your skills for this role

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