Pricefx Testing Lead - 1099 Contractor

**Pricefx Implementation Testing Lead** ======================================= **Position Type: Independent Contractor (1099\)** **Engagement Duration: Anticipated 12 months (subject to project milestones and phase extensions)** **Estimated Effort: Variable, 20–40 hours/week** **Location: Remote (US\-based)** **Hourly Compensation Rate: Commensurate with specialized expertise** ### **About Canidium** **Canidium is a market leader in Sales Performance Management (SPM), Pricing, and CPQ solutions. We assist mid\-sized and Fortune 500 enterprise clients with implementing complex sales\-enabling technologies.** **We are seeking an experienced Independent Testing Lead Contractor to provide senior\-level quality assurance leadership and advisory services for a large\-scale, multi\-workstream Pricefx implementation.** ### **Engagement Overview \& Deliverables** **As the Testing Lead Contractor, you will be responsible for defining, orchestrating, and delivering the overarching quality assurance and testing framework across the enterprise Pricefx program. You will provide strategic testing guidance across two primary delivery workstreams, coordinating testing alignment across an extended team of approximately 20 project contributors.** #### **Core Deliverables \& Responsibilities:** **1\. Test Strategy \& Quality Governance Framework** * **Formulate and execute a comprehensive enterprise test plan covering Sprint Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and post\-go\-live verification.** * **Establish clear entry/exit criteria and acceptance standards for user stories and project milestones.** * **Maintain and adjust testing schedules relative to the release calendar, providing risk alerts to program management.** **2\. Workstream Testing Coordination** * **Task\-allocate, coordinate, and review the testing outputs of 3–6 dedicated testing resources across two delivery workstreams.** * **Coordinate with build, architecture, and integration leads to ensure proper staging of test environments, test data, and code deployments.** * **Lead defect triage sessions alongside the Solution Architect and Project Managers to validate severity and priority classifications.** **3\. Execution Across All Testing Phases** * **Sprint Testing: Validate functionality against acceptance criteria prior to story sign\-off.** * **SIT: Facilitate end\-to\-end integration flows across Pricefx, ERP, CRM, and middleware systems.** * **UAT: Prepare test scripts, structure data, guide customer business users through testing cycles, and compile sign\-off evidence.** * **Post\-Go\-Live \& Hypercare: Execute production verification, post\-launch regression, and establish a repeatable regression test suite.** **4\. Defect Reproducibility \& Requirements Analysis** * **Enforce rigorous defect reporting standards to ensure all logged issues are 100% reproducible (exact data setups, configuration details, environmen