Test Lead

Overview

Location:
Hybrid Preferred (Greater Milwaukee WI / Chicago IL Area) | Open to Fully Remote Candidates

Employment Type:

Full-Time

Are you a seasoned Test Lead who thrives in complex enterprise environments and enjoys driving quality across large-scale transformation initiatives? Trissential is hiring a Test Lead to join our client's team and play a critical role in a major implementation program. This is an opportunity to lead testing strategy, collaborate with senior stakeholders, and ensure successful delivery across multiple business units and geographies.

If you're passionate about quality assurance, leadership, and delivering exceptional outcomes, we'd love to connect with you.

• Lead a high-visibility enterprise transformation program with significant organizational impact
• Own the end-to-end testing strategy and influence quality outcomes across the project lifecycle
• Work alongside business leaders, architects, developers, and program stakeholders on a critical implementation initiative
• Collaborate with globally distributed teams and gain exposure to complex business processes and integrations
• Drive quality improvements and testing best practices within a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Enjoy flexibility through a hybrid work arrangement, with consideration for fully remote candidates

• Develop, own, and execute the overall testing strategy, approach, and plans for project implementation initiatives
• Lead testing activities across functional, integration, regression, UAT, end-to-end user journey, data validation, and post-go-live smoke testing
• Mentor, guide, and coordinate testing teams across multiple business units, regions, and external partners
• Collaborate with business analysts, solution architects, developers, and stakeholders to understand business requirements and testing needs
• Translate business and technical requirements into comprehensive test scenarios, scripts, and validation plans
• Oversee the creation, review, and execution of test cases, test scripts, and test data to validate system functionality and integrations
• Manage defect tracking, triage processes, root cause analysis, and issue resolution activities
• Coordinate testing schedules and deliverables with program leadership, release management, and change readiness teams
• Ensure test environments, tools, and data are available and prepared for all phases of testing
• Define, track, and communicate quality metrics, KPIs, testing progress, risks, and outcomes to key stakeholders
• Support deployment activities and provide quality oversight through go-live and stabilization phases

• 8+ years of experience in software testing, quality assurance, or test management roles
• 4+ years of experience leading testing teams as a Test Lead, Test Manager, or comparable leadership position
• Proven experience supporting large-scale ERP implementations or similarly complex enterprise platforms
• Strong expertise in functional, integration, regression, UAT, and end-to-end testing methodologies
• Experience with data migration testing, data validation, and system integration testing
• Proficiency with test management and defect tracking tools such as Jira, Azure Dev Ops, ALM, or comparable platforms
• Demonstrated success leading distributed or geographically dispersed testing teams
• Strong stakeholder communication, facilitation, organizational, and leadership skills
• Ability to thrive in complex, fast-paced environments with multiple concurrent priorities
• Experience coordinating internal teams, vendors, contractors, and third-party partners

• Experience supporting large-scale transformation initiatives in highly regulated industries
• Familiarity with Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies
• Hands-on exposure to enterprise-wide data migration programs
• Experience implementing quality assurance best practices across large organizations
• Background working with multiple deployment waves and release management processes

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field (or equivalent…