Responsibilities of a Test Manager / Lead

• Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project.
• Estimate and obtain management support for the time, resources and budget required to perform the testing.
• Organize the testing kick-off meeting
• Define the Strategy
• Build a testing team of professionals with appropriate skills, attitudes and motivation.
  Identify Training requirements and forward it to the Project Manager (Technical and Soft skills).
• Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan.
• Arrange the Hardware and software requirement for the Test Setup.
• Assign task to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient 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 Cases documents.
• Keep track of the new requirements / change in requirements of the Project.
• Escalate the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware, Resources) to Project Manager / Sr. Test Manager.
• Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to the Client
• Attend the regular client call and discuss the weekly status with the client.
• Communication with the Client (If required).
• Act as the single point of contact between Development and Testers.
• Track and prepare the report of testing activities like test testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines etc.
• Review various reports prepared by Test engineers.
• Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones.
• Prepares / updates the metrics dashboard at the end of a phase or at the completion of project.