Senior Test Lead

Senior Test Lead at First Command Financial Services, Inc.

Location: Fort Worth, TX

Salary: $-$

The Senior Test Lead role will have a significant impact by driving consistent high-quality testing across multiple agile teams and enterprise-level initiatives. By standardizing QA processes, supporting test automation, and monitoring key quality metrics, the role will improve software reliability, reduce production defects, and enhance delivery predictability.

• Define test approaches, strategies, and quality controls for projects and releases.
• Ensure test plans, scenarios, and scripts align with business requirements, compliance, and risk considerations.
• Provide direction on QA tasks and practices, offering ongoing technical guidance and peer mentorship.
• Set guidance, priorities, and quality expectations to ensure timely and effective test execution.
• Review test deliverables from quality engineers to ensure consistency and accuracy.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, test cases, and defects.
• Report test progress, coverage, and defect trends to leadership and stakeholders.
• Recommend go/no-go decisions based on test results and risk assessment.
• Implement and monitor QA processes, including automation, test data/environment management, and metrics reporting.
• Ensure team compliance with QA standards, processes, and best practices.
• Partner with Product Owners, Developers, and Business Analysts to identify test needs early.
• Support development teams in implementing shift-left testing practices.
• Champion testing standards, tools, and processes across teams.
• Identify gaps in testing coverage, process, or tooling, and propose improvements.
• Support adoption of automation, performance, and data-driven testing initiatives.

Education:

• Required – Bachelor’s degree

Work Experience:

• 10+ years’ QA experience

Certifications:

• Preferred:
  Any ISTQB Certification

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Experience working in agile environments and strong understanding of QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Experience in E2E QA landscape – core testing, test data management, test environment and tool management.
• Ability to work effectively with development teams and other business stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of metrics measurement and reporting.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues.
• Highly desirable:
  Experience in automated testing tools and frameworks.
• Highly desirable:
  Hands on experience/understanding of Salesforce landscape.
• Nice to have:
  Exposure to/experience in performance and security testing.
• Nice to have:
  Experience in Financial domain.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

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