Test Lead
- Gmmco
- 10 - 14 years
- Chennai
- 1 month ago
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Job Description
Role Summary:
The Test Lead & Release Manager will play a dual role in ensuring digital platform quality and controlled release management across GMMCOs enterprise ecosystem.
This role combines testing leadership to ensure product readiness, reliability, and integration quality with release governance to coordinate, validate, and manage production rollouts across GMMCOs multiple business systems. Key Responsibilities:
1. Test Strategy & Quality Assurance
- Define and maintain a unified test strategy and governance framework across all GMMCO digital products.
- Develop detailed test plans, test cases, and acceptance criteria for functional, integration, and regression testing.
- Establish a centralized test repository with traceability to business requirements and UAT outcomes.
- Lead manual and automated testing efforts to ensure high-quality, defect-free product releases.
- Implement automation frameworks to increase regression coverage and shorten release cycles.
2. Release Planning & Coordination
- Own the end-to-end release calendar across all internal and customer-facing platforms.
- Coordinate release readiness reviews with Digital, IT, and business teams.
- Manage release environments, ensuring proper version control, configuration management, and rollback planning.
- Ensure test sign-offs, change documentation, and release approvals are completed as per governance standards.
- Maintain visibility of all planned releases, hotfixes, and maintenance windows.
3. Stakeholder Management
- Serve as the single point of contact for release scheduling, readiness, and issue escalation.
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Developers, Business Analysts, and Platform Owners to align test and release plans.
- Partner with Deloitte and other system integrators to ensure controlled deployments aligned with program timelines.
- Communicate release scope, impact, and dependencies clearly to leadership and business users.
4. Automation, Tools & Reporting
- Lead the adoption of test automation for regression and API testing (using Selenium, TestNG, Postman, JMeter, Power Automate, etc.).
Integrate testing and release activities within CI/CD pipelines to enable faster, high-quality deployments.
Establish and maintain QA and Release dashboards to track defect density, release cycle time, and quality metrics.
Monitor release health post go-live and coordinate hypercare support and stabilization activities.
5. Governance & Continuous Improvement
- Institutionalise Testing & Release Governance frameworks.
- Conduct periodic audits of release management processes and environment consistency.
- Lead post-release retrospectives to identify improvement opportunities and lessons learned.
- Drive a culture of Quality by Design and Release Discipline across Digital and IT teams.
Education & Experience
- Bachelors degree in Engineering / Computer Science / Information Technology.
- Certifications in ISTQB, ITIL, Agile Testing, or Release Management preferred.
- 1014 years of experience in Software Testing, Release Management, or QA Governance, including at least 35 years in a lead role.
- Hands-on experience in enterprise-scale digital systems testing and deployment (ERP, CRM, HRMS, WMS, etc.).
- Proven experience with test automation, release planning, and CI/CD environments.
- Exposure to SAP testing, integration validation, and data migration testing desirable.
- Strong understanding of Agile/DevOps frameworks and cross-system release orchestration.
Job Classification
Industry: Industrial Equipment / Machinery (Construction Equipment)Functional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QARole Category: DBA / Data warehousingRole: Database Developer / EngineerEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: GmmcoLocation(s): Chennai
Keyskills: Automation Testing Quality Assurance Test Strategy Release Management Governance Framework Stakeholder Management
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