About this role
Telecom E2E Test Manager (ID: 4029)
As a Telecom E2E Test Manager, you will:
- Lead end-to-end testing activities across complex telecom/network environments, ensuring quality, scope, timelines, and delivery objectives are met.
- Define and execute comprehensive test strategies, test plans, test scenarios, and test execution schedules.
- Coordinate testing across multiple teams, including development, integration, network, business, vendors, and operations.
- Manage SIT, E2E, UAT, regression, integration, and system validation activities.
- Ensure end-to-end validation of telecom services, applications, interfaces, and network components.
- Monitor test execution, defect management, test coverage, risks, dependencies, and overall quality metrics.
- Act as the central point of contact for testing activities and provide regular status updates to project and senior stakeholders.
- Drive defect triage, root-cause analysis, resolution, and escalation of critical testing issues.
- Ensure test environments, test data, tools, and dependencies are available and ready for execution.
- Support Go/No-Go and production readiness decisions by providing clear test results, quality metrics, and risk assessments.
- Promote testing best practices, automation, continuous improvement, and effective test governance.
What You Bring to the Table:
- 8+ years of overall experience in Software Testing, Test Management, or Quality Assurance, preferably within the Telecom/Telecommunications domain.
- Proven experience managing end-to-end testing for complex telecom projects and enterprise systems.
- Strong experience across SIT, E2E, UAT, Integration, Regression, and System Testing.
- Strong understanding of telecom applications, services, interfaces, and end-to-end service flows.
- Experience in test strategy, test planning, execution management, defect management, reporting, and test governance.
- Experience working with test and defect management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, ALM, or similar platforms.
- Good understanding of Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
- Strong stakeholder management and coordination experience across technical and business teams.
- Excellent analytical, communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills.
You Should Possess the Ability to:
- Manage multiple testing workstreams and coordinate end-to-end testing across cross-functional teams.
- Develop practical test strategies and ensure comprehensive test coverage.
- Lead test execution, defect triage, risk management, and issue resolution.
- Coordinate effectively with development, integration, network, business, and vendor teams.
- Identify testing risks and dependencies and implement appropriate mitigation plans.
- Prepare accurate test dashboards, status reports, quality metrics, and management updates.
- Support Go-Live readiness and provide testing inputs for Go/No-Go decisions.
- Drive continuous improvement in testing processes, governance, and automation.
What We Bring to the Table:
- Opportunity to work on complex telecom and end-to-end transformation programs.
- Exposure to large-scale enterprise testing, integration, and service validation initiatives.
- Collaboration with cross-functional technical, business, and vendor teams.
- Opportunities to work with modern testing tools, automation frameworks, and industry best practices.