21 Oct
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TATA Consultancy Services
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Toronto
21 Oct
TATA Consultancy Services
Toronto
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an equal opportunity employer, and embraces diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, gender, age, physical ability, neurodiversity, and sexual orientation, to create a workforce that reflects the societies we operate in. Our continued commitment to Culture and Diversity is reflected in our people stories across our workforce and implemented through equitable workplace policies and processes.
Tata Consultancy Services (BSE: , NSE: TCS) is the technology partner of choice for industry-leading organizations worldwide. Since its inception in 1968, TCS has upheld the highest standards of innovation, engineering excellence and customer service.
It has set an aspiration to become the world's largest AI-led technology services company and is enabling its clients to transform themselves across the full AI stack, from infrastructure to intelligence.
Rooted in the heritage of the Tata Group, TCS is focused on creating long term value for its clients, its investors, its employees, and the community at large. With a highly skilled workforce spread across 56 countries and 194 service delivery centers across the world, the company has been recognized as a top employer in six continents. With the ability to rapidly apply and scale new technologies, the company has built long term partnerships with its clients. Many of these relationships have endured into decades and navigated every technology cycle, from mainframes in the 1970s to artificial intelligence today.
Experience Range
- Significant experience leading testing for large, complex enterprise technology or infrastructure programs.
- Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end test strategy, governance,
planning and reporting across multiple workstreams.
- Experience coordinating internal teams, business stakeholders and third-party implementation partners.
- Strong knowledge of infrastructure, network, security, cloud, identity, endpoint and operational testing.
- Experience with pilots, migrations, production cutovers, rollback validation and go/no-go governance.
- Robust defect, risk, issue and dependency management capabilities.
- Ability to translate complex technical findings into clear executive-level recommendations.
Preferred
- Experience validating end-user connectivity, authentication, application access, monitoring, resiliency and security controls.
- Knowledge of ITIL change, release and operational acceptance practices.
- Relevant test management or project delivery certification.
Core Competencies
Competency What Good Looks Like
- Leadership Creates clarity and accountability across multiple teams without relying on direct authority.
- Risk-based judgement Prioritises testing based on business impact, technical complexity and residual risk.
- Technical credibility Can challenge designs, scenarios and evidence across network, security, cloud and end-user domains.
- Execution discipline Maintains traceability, controls, evidence and timely decisions throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Communication Converts detailed test results into concise, decision-ready reporting for senior stakeholders.
- Collaboration Builds effective working relationships across engineering, operations, business teams and vendors.
Indicative Success Measures
- Approved test strategy and integrated plan in place before formal execution begins.
- Full traceability for in-scope requirements and agreed acceptance criteria.
- Critical test dependencies, constraints and risks identified early and actively managed.
- No production deployment proceeds without documented readiness evidence and an accountable decision.
- Defect trends, residual risks and exceptions are visible and understood by decision-makers.
- Pilot and migration outcomes are captured and used to improve subsequent deployment waves.
Recommended Operating Model
Position the role as a program Test Manager reporting to the Program Manager, with a strong working relationship to the Technical Delivery Lead. The Test Manager should lead an integrated test function made up of workstream test leads, internal SMEs, business representatives and vendor testing resources.
For NMP, dedicated test leadership should be assigned at minimum across SASE and end-user connectivity, campus and SD-WAN, and enterprise perimeter and infrastructure. The central Test Manager owns integration, governance, consistency, evidence and programme-level readiness decisions
Position Summary
The NMP Test Manager is accountable for governing and coordinating the end-to-end testing strategy across the Network Modernization Program, including SASE, campus networking, enterprise perimeter se
📌 Program Test Manager (Toronto)
🏢 TATA Consultancy Services
📍 Toronto