Project Testing Coordinator

The Project (Testing) Coordinator role is tasked with the overall responsibility for the test planning and management, and escalation of issues that impede the test effort. This includes negotiating the ongoing purpose and deliverables of the test effort, ensuring the appropriate planning and management of the test resources, assessing the progress and effectiveness of the test effort, advocating the appropriate level of quality by using a risk-based testing approach, and advocating an appropriate level of testability focus in the software development process.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project.
• Estimate and obtain management support for the time and resources required to perform testing.
• Work with Project Managers and Workstream Leads to assign testing resources to specific processes within workstreams.
• Ensure all test scenarios have been provided by Workstream leads.
• Coordinate and follow up on the development of test scripts.
• Ensure data has been staged to support test scenarios and scripts.
• Collaborate with workstream leads/resources to ensure testing steps are sequenced correctly.
• Collaborate with workstream leads/resources to ensure test data is accurately identified for each test script.
• Ensure access to test environments and application security has been completed to facilitate testing activities.
• Arrange the facilities and any equipment requirement for the testing.
• Ensure that testing responsibilities are assigned to all testing team members and that all understand their testing work in the project.
• Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents/artifacts is documented and maintained.
• Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing as per standards defined by the organization.
• Check / Review the test script documents.
• Keep track of the testing outcomes including but not limited to new requirements or changes to requirements.
• Escalate testing results that impact project requirements.
• Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report.
• Attend the regular project team meetings and discuss the weekly status with the team.
• Communication with the testing resources as needed.
• Track and prepare the report of testing activities including testing results, test case coverage, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines etc.
• Review various reports prepared by Testers.
• Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones.

Skills and Competencies:

• Strong organizational skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with testing software and technology.