Senior Test Manager

Coordinate testing activities across application teams, product owners, application test managers, EUC, infrastructure, security, network, and project teams. Establish testing governance and accountability across infrastructure, product, business, and testing teams.

Our Client, an IT Services and Consultant company, is looking for a Senior Test Manager for their Remote/Richardson, TX / Chicago, IL/Hybrid location.
 
Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Test Strategy
• Develop the overall testing and validation strategy for the One Browser Initiative.
• Define testing workstreams, scope, assumptions, risks, dependencies, and success criteria.
• Establish testing governance and accountability across infrastructure, product, business, and testing teams.
• Define testing types, required validation activities, and readiness criteria.
• Application Certification & Sign-Off
• Define application validation requirements and testing expectations.
• Establish evidence standards and certification criteria.
• Define business and application owner sign-off requirements.
• Ensure application teams provide documented proof of testing completion.
• Monitor and report application certification status and readiness metrics.
• Establish exception, risk acceptance, and remediation processes.
• Stakeholder Coordination & Testing Governance
• Coordinate testing activities across application teams, product owners, application test managers, EUC, infrastructure, security, network, and project teams.
• Facilitate test planning workshops and readiness reviews.
• Manage escalations, dependencies, and testing-related risks.
• Drive alignment and accountability across impacted stakeholders.
• Partner closely with application test managers to ensure consistency in validation and reporting.
• Future-State Environment Validation (AVD)
• Define the testing approach for the target-state AVD environment.
• Establish validation requirements for application testing within the future-state environment.
• Ensure application teams understand how to test and certify their applications using the approved migration environment.
• Define testing evidence and readiness requirements prior to business certification and deployment decisions
• Cross-Browser & Digital Experience Testing
• Develop the strategy for external user and member validation utilizing Perfecto or similar testing platforms.
• Establish browser support expectations for external-facing applications.
• Define validation requirements across Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, and applicable mobile browsers.
• Work with Digital and Product teams to ensure browser standardization efforts do not negatively impact external customer experiences.
• Readiness Reporting & Executive Governance:
• Establish enterprise readiness dashboards and reporting standards.
• Track application certification status, risks, dependencies, defects, and testing completion.
• Provide regular readiness assessments to program leadership.
• Support Go/No-Go decision-making for pilot activities and deployment waves.
• Escalate unresolved readiness risks that may impact migration success.

 
Requirements:

• The proposed resource must demonstrate experience in:
• Enterprise Test Strategy Development
• Large-Scale Technology Transformation Programs
• Browser Modernization Initiatives
• Application Certification and Sign-Off Programs
• Enterprise Test Governance
• Readiness and Release Management
• Risk-Based Testing Approaches
• Cross-Browser Testing Strategies
• Executive-Level Reporting
• Multi-Team Coordination and Escalation Management
• Leading Testing Across Large Application Portfolios
• Preferred Experience
• Microsoft Edge migration programs
• Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
• End User Computing (EUC) initiatives
• Digital experience testing platforms such as Perfecto
• Infrastructure and workplace technology transformations
• Healthcare industry experience
• Top 3 skills required for this role:
• The proposed resource must demonstrate experience in:
• Enterprise Test Strategy Development
• Large-Scale Technology Transformation Programs
• Browser Modernization Initiatives
• Application Certification and Sign-Off Programs
• Enterprise Test Governance
• Readiness and Release Management
• Years of Experience: 10+ Years of Experience

 
Why Should You Apply?

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities