Role :Test Manager role in LATAM 
Location: Mexico or Columbia 
Total Experience: 10+Years

General Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain a comprehensive Master Test Plan that outlines the testing scope and approach, ensuring thorough tests coverage to deliver a high-quality product, including hardware and external interfaces.

• Define test timelines and required resource capacity in collaboration with Program Management, while regularly communicating test and quality status, risks, and critical updates to leadership and cross-functional teams.

• Standardize templates for test cases, test scripts, reviews, and bug reports, while defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and quality metrics.

• Determine the appropriate test levels and types, and review test cases to ensure alignment with functional and non-functional requirements. Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Engineering Leads at the P50 level to establish the test strategy and approach for each requirement and the overall project.

• Create traceability between requirements and testing artifacts, mapping test cases to corresponding requirements.

• Identify, document, and coordinate the required test environments, test data, external interface stubs, simulators, and integration points, while working with DevOps to provision and maintain these environments to ensure availability and consistency.

• Define the decision framework for releases (quality gates, critical defect thresholds, performance benchmarks, and security checks, etc.) while also ensuring verification readiness timely execution and completion of test activities.

• Analyze testing outcomes, metrics, and defect trends to identify bottlenecks and drive continuous improvement in testing efficiency and product quality.

• Lead a cross-functional QA team, ensuring that testers are well-trained in test plans and strategies, while building technical capabilities within the team and fostering a culture of quality.

Technical Responsibilities

• Understanding of large language models (LLMs), GenAI, and prompt engineering concepts.

• Integrate GitHub Copilot, MCP servers, and GenAI to automate QA workflows with AI-driven test generation and coverage optimization.

• Guide SDETs in the implementation and maintenance of modern test frameworks such as Playwright and k6.

• Set up and configure the Xray test management framework in Jira by organizing test repositories, defining workflows for test case creation, review, and execution.

• Create and maintain Jira/Xray dashboards to monitor test progress, test data/environment readiness, and real-time execution metrics such as pass/fail rates, defect trends, and quality indicators.

• Automate test execution in Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines with integrated reporting in Xray/Jira and real-time alerts for quality assurance.