Senior Quality Engineering Lead

Senior Quality Engineering Lead
Initial Duration: 3 months
Work Arrangement: Remote
Role Overview
Our international client, is seeking an experienced Senior Quality Engineering Lead for an initial three-month interim engagement. Following an external quality review, the organization has identified a set of recommendations to strengthen its quality engineering and testing practices. The successful consultant will lead the implementation of these recommendations by establishing a practical, sustainable quality engineering governance model and testing framework.
This is a remote role requiring close collaboration with the client’s teams, business stakeholders, project teams and third party vendors. The focus is on building capability, improving consistency and ensuring the framework can be maintained by the client or an ongoing delivery partner after the engagement.
Key Responsibilities
• Quality Engineering Governance
• Standard Testing Framework
• Requirements Quality and Traceability
• Risk-Based Testing
• Azure DevOps Test Management
• Test Artefacts and Reporting
• SIT and UAT Readiness
• Test Environments and Data
• Transition and Handover
Essential Requirements
• Demonstrated experience establishing test governance, a quality engineering framework or organization-wide testing standards—not solely managing test execution.
• Proven experience implementing a risk-based testing approach and applying risk-based prioritization to testing activities.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps Test Plans, including test management and execution workflows.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (MS Dynamics CE).
• Experience coordinating SIT and UAT with business users, project teams and third-party vendors.
• Experience defining test strategies or approaches for data migration and system integrations.
• Ability to coach teams, transfer knowledge and hand over a framework that can be operated sustainably by others. Confidential | Headhunter Brief
• Excellent written and verbal English communication, with strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation and influencing skills.
Desirable Requirements
• Experience with test environment management and test data management.
• Experience in member-based organizations, insurance, not-for-profit or similarly service-oriented environments.
• ISTQB Advanced Test Manager certification or an equivalent recognized testing/quality qualification.

Work arrangement
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