Senior Testing Consultant

Senior Testing Consultant

Senior Testing Consultant Gavin Heath is partnering with a client in Salem, OR looking to add a Senior Testing Consultant to their team. The role is a contract position.

Responsibilities include:

• Leading User Acceptance Testing (UAT) efforts from planning through production readiness.
• Developing testing strategies, test plans, test scenarios, test cases, and Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTMs).
• Reviewing business requirements, user stories, process flows, and acceptance criteria to ensure complete and testable requirements.
• Coordinating manual UAT execution while ensuring comprehensive validation of functional and non-functional requirements.
• Leading regression, integration, exploratory, accessibility, performance, and security testing efforts.
• Managing defect lifecycle activities including defect documentation, triage, prioritization, retesting, and validation.
• Assessing testing risks, identifying coverage gaps, and recommending mitigation strategies.
• Defining testing approach, quality gates, entry/exit criteria, and release readiness standards.
• Developing testing metrics, dashboards, status reports, and executive summaries for project stakeholders.
• Supporting test data preparation, environment readiness, and release planning activities.
• Partnering with business users, product owners, developers, vendors, and project teams to ensure successful delivery.
• Mentoring business testers and QA team members while promoting testing best practices and continuous process improvement.
• Participating in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, standups, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
• Collaborating with automation engineers to identify automation opportunities and improve regression testing coverage.

Qualifications include:

• 10+ years of experience leading Quality Assurance and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for complex enterprise applications.
• Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile methodologies, and quality assurance best practices.
• Experience developing enterprise test strategies, test plans, Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTMs), and release readiness documentation.
• Experience designing and executing complex functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing scenarios.
• Strong knowledge of defect management, risk-based testing, quality gates, and release management.
• Experience using Jira, Azure Dev Ops, Client ALM, or similar test management and defect tracking tools.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work effectively across technical and business teams.
• Experience leading cross-functional testing efforts with minimal supervision.

Gavin Heath is an equal opportunity employer. Gavin Heath will extend equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, disability, age, creed, ancestry, genetic information, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws.