Provide leadership, mentorship, performance management, and career development for the Test Engineering team, fostering a culture of quality, accountability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
Manage team capacity, workload balancing, and skill development to optimize testing efficiency and delivery outcomes.
Partner with the IT PMO to develop and maintain integrated testing and production release schedules.
Collaborate with project managers, developers, and business stakeholders to ensure testing requirements are defined, planned, and executed.
Own and maintain the Lightspeed production release calendar.
Define, implement, and continuously improve the Release Management strategy, processes, and governance framework.
Ensure all releases comply with Telesat's Change Management policies, procedures, and controls.
Plan and coordinate production deployments, release execution, change activities, and stakeholder communications.
Identify, assess, and mitigate risks that could impact release scope, schedule, quality, or system stability.
Lead Go-Live and post-release activities to ensure successful deployments and operational readiness.
Partner with development and Platform Engineering teams to enhance release automation, deployment pipelines, and testing capabilities.
Develop, maintain, and govern release, testing, and operational documentation, including procedures, dependencies, and communication plans.
Define and maintain the overall test strategy, methodologies, standards, and processes for Lightspeed applications and platforms.
Design, implement, and oversee functional, integration, performance, load, resilience, and operational testing activities.
Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks, scripts, and tools to improve quality, efficiency, and coverage.
Collaborate with Platform Engineering teams to ensure testing environments, infrastructure, and tools meet operational and quality requirements.
Establish and monitor key quality metrics, including test coverage, defect density, defect trends, release quality, and testing progress.
Develop dashboards, reporting, and trend analysis to provide visibility into testing effectiveness and release performance.
Lead the prioritization and coordination of testing activities across multiple projects and release streams.
Champion quality engineering, testing best practices, and continuous improvement throughout the organization.
Present testing, quality, and release status, metrics, risks, and recommendations to project teams, leadership, and other stakeholders.
The successful candidate is expected to demonstrate flexibility and commitment to meeting business objectives, including participation in after-hours testing, deployments, and operational support activities when necessary.
