Senior Testing Consultant

**Title: Senior Testing Consultant** **Location: Salem, OR (Remote)** **Duration: 7 Months** **Interview type: MS Teams** **Remote work/Telecommuting will be contingent upon the key person providing their own adequate office equipment and connectivity.** **Job Description** Clientseeks an experienced Senior Testing Consultant that serves as a subject matter expert in testing design, test execution, defect evaluation, and testing process improvement. Contractor's Key Person shall provide advanced testing support, guidance, and expertise to the SBM team. Contractor's Key Person shall support both agile and traditional delivery teams by designing, executing, and validating user acceptance testing (UAT), as well as collaborating closely with business users to ensure systems meet requirements and deliver expected business value. Tasks: **Contractor's Key Person shall:*** Review and analyze project requirements, user stories, process flows, and acceptance criteria for clarity, completeness, and testability. * Maintain and update the requirements traceability matrix (RTM). * Create, update, and maintain comprehensive test cases, test scenarios, and test suites. * Develop and update test plans that outline scope, approach, schedule, resources, and risks. * Execute manual UAT test cases, log test results, and ensure proper validation of functional and non\-functional requirements. * Participate in test case review sessions; identify candidates for automated testing as needed. * Conduct regression testing to validate system stability and verify fixes. * Support and sometimes lead bug hunts, exploratory testing, and ad hoc validation activities. * Log defects with clear reproduction steps, evidence, and expected behavior; retest defects and confirm resolution. * Conduct integration testing across systems, services, and interfaces. * Perform or support load, performance, security, integration and accessibility testing activities. * Prepare, request, or curate test data required for UAT. * Validate UAT readiness (requirements, data, environments, tools). * Participate in defect triage discussions; assist in determining priority, severity, and business impact. * Provide UAT guidance and support to business SMEs/testers during testing cycles and contribute to training, documentation, and testing best practices. * Develop and maintain testing best practices, training materials, templates, and documentation. * Provide daily/weekly test metrics, summaries, and status reports to stakeholders. * Participate fully in Scrum ceremonies (if applicable) including planning, refinement, standups, demos, and retrospectives. * Contribute to release readiness assessments and go/no go recommendations. * Apply knowledge of test automation concepts to identify automation candidates, support automation coverage planning, and collaborate with automation engineers on automated regression and smoke testing as needed. * Continuously identify oppo