Test Director

<div><p>We are looking for<b>a Senior Test Delivery Manager / Test Program Director</b>to lead the quality engineering and testing delivery for a large-scale telecom transformation program. The role requires strong leadership in managing complex testing portfolios, large, distributed teams, and multi-vendor ecosystems, while ensuring delivery excellence and financial discipline.</p><p>The leader will be responsible for end-to-end test strategy, delivery governance, demand management, and resource optimization, while driving AI-first quality engineering practices to improve productivity, predictability, and business outcomes.</p><p>This role will work closely with client leadership, program directors, architecture teams, and delivery partners to ensure quality objectives are achieved across all releases in the transformation program.</p><h3>Key Responsibilities</h3><h3>Test Program Leadership</h3><ul><li>Own and drive the overall testing strategy and execution for a large telecom transformation program.</li><li>Lead testing across multiple transformation workstreams.</li><li>Establish quality governance frameworks aligned with program milestones and release plans.</li><li>Manage large, distributed testing teams and multiple vendor partners.</li><li>Ensure testing delivery meets fixed bid contractual commitments related to scope, cost, timelines, and quality.</li><li>Drive cost optimization, productivity improvement, and margin protection through automation and AI-led efficiencies.</li><li>Manage program-level testing budgets, forecasting, and resource utilization.</li><li>Establish strong governance for scope management, change control, and risk mitigation.</li></ul><h3>Demand Management&Resource Planning</h3><ul><li>Manage testing demand across multiple workstreams and releases in alignment with program priorities.</li><li>Lead capacity planning, resource forecasting, and skill-based allocation to ensure optimal utilization.</li><li>Establish structured resource scheduling models aligned with release cycles and delivery milestones.</li><li>Collaborate with leadership teams to address demand-supply gaps, ramp-up planning, and skill transformation initiatives.</li></ul><h3>AI-First Quality Engineering</h3><ul><li>Drive adoption of AI-enabled testing across the testing lifecycle.</li><li>Leverage AI agents and intelligent automation to accelerate testing cycles and improve quality.</li><li>Define AI adoption roadmap for quality engineering within the program.</li><li>Build a highly automated testing ecosystem across functional and non-functional testing.</li><li>Drive shift-left and shift-right quality practices to enable faster feedback loops.</li></ul><h3>Stakeholder&Client Engagement</h3><ul><li>Act as the primary QA leader interfacing with senior client stakeholders.</li><li>Provide strategic guidance on quality engineering practices and transformation initiatives.</li><li>Facilitate program-level quality reviews, defect governance forums, and release readiness discussions.</li><li>Provide executive dashboards and quality insights to program leadership.</li></ul><h3>Risk&Quality Management</h3><ul><li>Establish proactive mechanisms for risk identification, quality assurance, and defect prevention.</li><li>Implement predictive quality metrics and analytics using AI-based insights.</li><li>Ensure strong governance for all testing lifecycle activities.</li></ul><h3>Required Skills&Experience</h3><h3>Experience</h3><ul><li>18+ years of experience in Quality Engineering and Testing</li><li>8+ years managing large transformation programs</li><li>Experience delivering complex telecom programs under fixed bid or outcome-based models</li><li>Proven leadership managing large, distributed QA teams (100+ resources)</li><li>Telecom Domain Expertise and AI&Modern Testing experience</li><li>Strong program governance and stakeholder management</li><li>Experience managing multi-vendor delivery environments</li><li>Expertise in demand management, capacity planning, and workforce scheduling</li><li>Proven ability to drive quality transformation initiatives</li><li>Strong background in Agile delivery</li></ul></div>#J-18808-Ljbffr