Responsibilities of A Test Manager and Test Lead (Shared Both)
The responsibilities of a test manager and test lead include building and leading the testing team, defining the testing scope, and deploying testing resources. A test manager additionally manages the testing department, allocates resources to projects, reviews status reports, and enforces quality processes. A test lead prepares test plans, checks test cases, provides technical support, tracks requirements, and acts as the point of contact between development and testing teams.
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Responsibilities of A Test Manager and Test Lead (Shared Both)
The responsibilities of a test manager and test lead include building and leading the testing team, defining the testing scope, and deploying testing resources. A test manager additionally manages the testing department, allocates resources to projects, reviews status reports, and enforces quality processes. A test lead prepares test plans, checks test cases, provides technical support, tracks requirements, and acts as the point of contact between development and testing teams.
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Responsibilities of a Test Manager and Test Lead (Shared both)
- Building up and leading the Testing Team to the success of
project - Defining the scope of testing within the context of each release / delivery - Deploying and managing resources for testing - Applying the appropriate test measurements and metrics in the product and the Testing Team - Planning, deploying and managing the testing effort for any given engagement. Responsibilities of a Test Manager - Manage the Testing Department. - Review of test plans - Allocate resource to projects. - Review weekly Testers' status reports and take necessary actions - Escalate Testers' issues to the Sr. Management. - Estimate for testing projects. - Enforce the adherence to the company's Quality processes and procedures. - Decision to procure Software Testing tools for the organization. - Inter group co-ordination between various departments. - Continuous monitoring and mentoring of Testing Lead/Test team members. - Attend weekly meeting of projects and provide inputs from the Testers' perspective. - Immediate notification/escalation of problems to the Sr. Test Manager / Senior Management. - Ensure processes are followed as laid down. - Participate in pre-sale of Testing project Responsibilities of a Test Lead - Prepare, develop and implemen the Software Test Plan. - Check / Review the Test Cases document - System, Integration and User Acceptance prepared by test engineers. - Analyze requirements during the requirements analysis phase of projects. - Keep track of the new requirements from the Project. - Provide technical support to the Testing team. - Forecast / Estimate the Project future requirements. - Arrange the Hardware and software requirement for the Test Setup. - Escalate the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware, Resources) to Project Manager / Test Manager. - Escalate the issues in the application to the Client. - Assign task to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the project. - Organize the meetings. - Prepare the Agenda for the meeting, for example: Weekly Team meeting etc. - Attend the regular client call and discuss the weekly status with the client. - Send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to the Client. - Frequent status check meetings with the Team. - Communication by means of Chat / emails etc. with the Client (If required). - Act as the single point of contact between Development and Testers for iterations, Testing and deployment activities. - Track and report upon testing activities, including testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines, etc. - Assist in performing any applicable maintenance to tools used in Testing and resolve issues if any. - Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and maintained. - Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes and procedures for testing is established as per standards defined by the organization. - Review various reports prepared by Test engineers. - Log project related issues in the defect tracking tool identified for the project. − Check for timely delivery of different milestones. − Identify Training requirements and forward it to the Project Manager (Technical and Soft skills). − Attend weekly Team Leader meeting. − Motivate team members. − Organize / Conduct internal trainings on various products.