Test Lead

Role Summary:

Key Responsibilities:

1. Test Strategy & Quality Assurance

• Define and maintain a unified test strategy and governance framework across all GMMCO digital products.
• Develop detailed test plans, test cases, and acceptance criteria for functional, integration, and regression testing.
• Establish a centralized test repository with traceability to business requirements and UAT outcomes.
• Lead manual and automated testing efforts to ensure high-quality, defect-free product releases.
• Implement automation frameworks to increase regression coverage and shorten release cycles.

2. Release Planning & Coordination

• Own the end-to-end release calendar across all internal and customer-facing platforms.
• Coordinate release readiness reviews with Digital, IT, and business teams.
• Manage release environments, ensuring proper version control, configuration management, and rollback planning.
• Ensure test sign-offs, change documentation, and release approvals are completed as per governance standards.
• Maintain visibility of all planned releases, hotfixes, and maintenance windows.

3. Stakeholder Management

• Serve as the single point of contact for release scheduling, readiness, and issue escalation.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Developers, Business Analysts, and Platform Owners to align test and release plans.
• Partner with Deloitte and other system integrators to ensure controlled deployments aligned with program timelines.
• Communicate release scope, impact, and dependencies clearly to leadership and business users.

4. Automation, Tools & Reporting

• Lead the adoption of test automation for regression and API testing (using Selenium, TestNG, Postman, JMeter, Power Automate, etc.).
  • Integrate testing and release activities within CI/CD pipelines to enable faster, high-quality deployments. • Establish and maintain QA and Release dashboards to track defect density, release cycle time, and quality metrics. • Monitor release health post go-live and coordinate hypercare support and stabilization activities.

5. Governance & Continuous Improvement

• Institutionalise Testing & Release Governance frameworks.
• Conduct periodic audits of release management processes and environment consistency.
• Lead post-release retrospectives to identify improvement opportunities and lessons learned.
• Drive a culture of Quality by Design and Release Discipline across Digital and IT teams.

Education & Experience

• Bachelors degree in Engineering / Computer Science / Information Technology.
• Certifications in ISTQB, ITIL, Agile Testing, or Release Management preferred.
• 1014 years of experience in Software Testing, Release Management, or QA Governance, including at least 3–5 years in a lead role.
• Hands-on experience in enterprise-scale digital systems testing and deployment (ERP, CRM, HRMS, WMS, etc.).
• Proven experience with test automation, release planning, and CI/CD environments.
• Exposure to SAP testing, integration validation, and data migration testing desirable.
• Strong understanding of Agile/DevOps frameworks and cross-system release orchestration.