We are seeking a highly accomplished Test Lead to champion the quality assurance strategy, execution, and release-readiness pathways for high-profile, fast-moving retail transformation initiatives. In this role, you will hold end-to-end technical ownership of the testing lifecycle, directing multi-shore QA specialists across concurrent digital streams. Operating at the core of a modern agile pipeline, you will coordinate functional, non-functional, integration, and regression test suites, while integrating advanced digital testing plans directly into active CI/CD automation pipelines to ensure seamless, defect-free platform rollouts.
Location: Toronto, ON (Fully Onsite – 5 days/week required)
Duration: 9-month contract
Work Schedule: Flexibility to support extended hours and weekend work is required during deployment events and cutover execution.
Advantages
Cutting-Edge Tech Stack: Lead validation efforts across modern containerized ecosystems, mobile platforms, and advanced cloud architectures.
High-Impact Leadership: Direct multidisciplinary testing teams in a highly collaborative, onsite environment designed for real-time problem-solving.
Complex Scope Ownership: Build and refine end-to-end testing strategies for high-visibility eCommerce and API-driven retail transformation systems.
Structured Delivery Focus: Drive visible quality transformations in a fast-paced environment with clear, execution-focused timelines.
Responsibilities
Testing Strategy & Blueprinting: Define, document, and manage the master test strategy and low-level test plans covering functional, system integration testing (SIT), performance, and user acceptance testing (UAT) phases.
Agile Stream Management: Coordinate day-to-day testing operations across multiple digital product pipelines, assigning tasks, establishing priorities, and monitoring execution velocity.
CI/CD & DevOps Integration: Align and embed digital testing suites directly into automated continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
Defect Triage & Governance: Lead the defect management lifecycle, collaborating with development, architecture, and vendor teams to ensure software anomalies are accurately reproduced, prioritized, and resolved.
Requirements Translation: Analyze functional, technical, and non-functional requirements to write comprehensive test scenarios, risk-based validation plans, and positive/negative manual and automated scripts.
Multi-Shore Coordination: Align testing activities and resource allocations between onsite, near-shore, and off-shore testing teams to optimize delivery cycles.
Resource Coaching & Leadership: Directly supervise, mentor, and coach an integrated team of system testers, setting performance baselines and reviewing test evidence for quality standards.
Environment & Test Data Provisioning: Assist in configuring, managing, and maintaining isolated test environments and realistic, compliant test data pools.
Release Readiness & Sign-Off: Provide critical test coverage telemetry, progress metrics, and defect reports to project managers and executive leaders to support go/no-go release decisions.
Qualifications
Test Leadership Seniority: 5 to 8 years of progressive professional experience leading business application and software testing streams within enterprise environments.
ALM Tool Stack Mastery: 5 to 8 years of hands-on experience orchestrating test cases, runs, and defect workflows using HP ALM and/or Micro Focus Octane (Strictly Required).
Agile Framework Specialization: 5 to 8 years of dedicated experience leading quality assurance pipelines within mature Agile/Scrum environments (Strictly Required).
Multi-Platform Digital Testing: 5 to 8 years of verified experience directing quality gates for complex digital projects, including native mobile apps (iOS & Android), eCommerce engines, and RESTful API integrations (Strictly Required).
DevOps Pipeline Literacy: Proven practical experience integrating digital test plans with CI/CD tools and cloud platforms, specifically Jenkins, GitHub, Docker, Chef/Puppet, and cloud hosting environments (Strictly Required).
Methodological Depth: Expert background analyzing functional and non-functional specifications to design exhaustive risk-based test frameworks, test schedules, and QA budgets.
Soft Skills: Exceptional negotiation, verbal and written communication, and organizational capabilities, with a proven track record of managing project escalations and aligning technical teams under tight timelines.
Summary
If you're interested in the "Test Lead" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca. Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!
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