Program Test Lead

Job Title- Program Test Lead

Location - Kansas City, MO

Job Type - Full Time

Program-level Test Leadership

Define & own the program test strategy

Lead testing across 60+ applications, managing cross dependencies and coordinated End-to-End Testing

Establish Test governance, quality gates and go-live readiness criteria across all testing streams

Ensure each testing streams have the requisite plan and bandwidth to meet the critical timelines

Drive defect management at a program level

Own the master test plan with revisions and bring alignment across testing streams

Testing Scrum of scrums leadership

Plan, run, and govern the testing scrum of scrums across all applications testing stream

Ensure alignment on: Overall program plan

Resolve inter-team dependencies & blockers

Escalate through appropriate channels to directors for external vendor delays

Track program level defect ageing & risks from testing streams

Stakeholder & vendor management

Partner with Business, Technology, PMO by setting up regular cadence

Establish governance at multiple level for visibility

Coordinate testing across multiple streams for End-to-End Testing

TCoE Enablement

Ensure standards are maintained across testing streams to maximize visibility & metrics across testing stream partnering with TCoE implementation team & project streams

Identify enablement areas across testing streams and facilitate acceleration particularly in areas of automation and regression testing that impact speed & quality of testing

Identify bandwidth issues that may impact delivery predictability

Talent deployed must have the ability to work across multiple stakeholders independently such as testing streams, PMO, Technology, vendors & external partners, Business, etc.