The Company

We are an award-winning software product engineering company that has delivered bespoke web, enterprise, mobile, and cloud solutions to clients around the world for over 25 years. The company has recently expanded into AI-driven innovation, offering AI development, consulting and implementation, data engineering and master data management, and cloud architecture alongside its core software development services. We are a Microsoft Silver Partner and AWS partner, ISO certified, and a SLASSCOM member, and in 2025 won gold at every major national technology award ceremony in Sri Lanka.

With long-standing partnerships spanning 5 to 15+ years with global clients across healthcare, logistics, and enterprise software, we combine deep technical expertise with a client-first approach — helping start-ups and enterprises alike scale through digital transformation. The company prides itself on dedication, continuous improvement, and adaptability, building teams and solutions that grow and evolve alongside its clients' changing needs.

Role Overview

Our client, is seeking an experienced Senior Quality Engineering Lead for an initial three-month interim engagement. Following an external quality review, the organisation has identified a set of recommendations to strengthen its quality engineering and testing practices. The successful consultant will lead the implementation of these recommendations by establishing a practical, sustainable quality engineering governance model and testing framework.

This is a remote role requiring close collaboration with the client’s teams, business stakeholders, project teams and third-party vendors. The focus is on building capability, improving consistency and ensuring the framework can be maintained by the client or an ongoing delivery partner after the engagement.

Engagement Details

• Position: Senior Quality Engineering Lead
• Engagement type: Interim contract / consulting engagement
• Initial duration: 3 months
• Work arrangement: Remote
• Client: International

Key Responsibilities

• Quality Engineering Governance: Establish a QE governance model defining roles and responsibilities, decision rights, quality gates, governance forums and release-readiness controls.
• Standard Testing Framework: Define and document standard testing practices across test planning, design, execution, defect management, risk management, reporting and quality assurance.
• Requirements Quality and Traceability: Improve requirements testability by establishing clear acceptance criteria, traceability between requirements and tests, and alignment with business processes.
• Risk-Based Testing: Introduce a risk-based testing approach that prioritises critical business processes, system integrations, data migration and end-to-end member journeys.
• Azure DevOps Test Management: Improve the use of Azure DevOps Test Plans for test planning, test case management, execution, defect tracking, reporting and quality dashboards.
• Test Artefacts and Reporting: Define standard test artefacts and templates, including test plans, test scripts, defect taxonomy, test completion reports and release-readiness evidence.
• SIT and UAT Readiness: Strengthen System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) readiness, clarifying entry and exit criteria, stakeholder responsibilities, vendor inputs and business-user expectations.
• Test Environments and Data: Assess current test environment and test data practices and recommend practical improvements to support reliable, repeatable testing.
• Transition and Handover: Develop a practical transition plan, including documentation, ownership, knowledge transfer and recommendations, so the client or an ongoing partner can sustain the framework beyond the three-month engagement.

Essential Requirements

• Demonstrated experience establishing test governance, a quality engineering framework or organisation-wide testing standards—not solely managing test execution.
• Proven experience implementing a risk-based testing approach and applying risk-based prioritisation to testing activities.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps Test Plans, including test management and execution workflows.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (MS Dynamics CE).
• Experience coordinating SIT and UAT with business users, project teams and third-party vendors.
• Experience defining test strategies or approaches for data migration and system integrations.
• Ability to coach teams, transfer knowledge and hand over a framework that can be operated sustainably by others.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication, with strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation and influencing skills.

Desirable Requirements

• Experience with test environment management and test data management.
• Experience in member-based organisations, insurance, not-for-profit or similarly service-oriented environments.
• ISTQB Advanced Test Manager certification or an equivalent recognised testing/quality qualification.