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Flemish BrabantOn siteHours negotiable<3months
An organization is seeking an experienced testing leader to support a major global transformation program within a complex aviation environment. This opportunity involves steering the quality assurance approach for a large-scale enterprise system rollout, with a strong focus on business process validation, user acceptance testing, and controlled deployment readiness.
What you will do.
- Define, lead, and execute the overall testing strategy in line with business objectives and quality standards.
- Set up and apply testing governance, defect management, and best-practice quality processes.
- Plan and oversee all major test phases, including:
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Integration Testing
- Regression Testing
- Performance Testing
- End-to-end business process validation
- Coordinate a distributed group of test resources, including business users involved in UAT.
- Collaborate with product owners, process leads, data migration leads, interface teams, training teams, and program management.
- Manage test preparation, execution, reporting, issue resolution, and quality assurance throughout the project lifecycle.
- Support cut-over testing, go-live rehearsals, deployment readiness, and post go-live triage.
- Identify testing risks and implement mitigation actions where needed.
- Provide clear reporting on progress, KPIs, quality metrics, and key risks to senior stakeholders.
- Contribute to ongoing improvement of testing practices and quality management.
Profile
- Strong leadership skills with a proactive, mature, and structured approach.
- Confident stakeholder manager, able to engage with senior business and technical stakeholders.
- Effective communicator in multicultural and cross-functional environments.
- Excellent planning, coordination, and organizational abilities.
- Comfortable working in fast-paced transformation programs with multiple priorities.
- Experience leading business-focused testing in complex COTS implementations.
- Ability to work with geographically distributed stakeholders, vendors, and implementation partners.
What they ask
- 10+ years of experience in software and business testing.
- At least 3+ years in a Test Manager, Test Lead, or similar leadership role.
- Proven experience with UAT and business process validation.
- Experience in large-scale enterprise transformation programs.
- Strong knowledge of defect management, test governance, and quality assurance frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with test management tools such as qTest, HP ALM, TestRail, or similar solutions.
- ISTQB certification.
- Strong reporting, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.
- Excellent command of English, written and spoken.
- Minimum 2 years of experience in the aviation industry or a closely related operational environment.
Preferences.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Aviation, or a related field.
- Experience with aviation maintenance information systems.
- Experience supporting system migrations.
- Exposure to Jira and qTest (Tricentis).
- Additional language skills such as Dutch, French, or German are considered an asset.
Practical
- Travel requirement: approximately 30%.
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