Strategic Test Leader & Coordinator
Workplace: Enköping, Sverige
Expires: October 31, 2025
We are seeking a senior test leader with extensive experience to take on a key role combining operational responsibility with strategic leadership in a security-classified and socially important IT environment in Enköping. The role includes leading test efforts in projects, coordinating test and maintenance environments, developing test methods and environments, managing personnel, and ensuring quality and efficiency within the test function.
Main requirements:
- At least 12 years of test leadership experience, including at least 6 years in large organizations with geographically distributed operations.
- Minimum 2 years test leadership experience in IT infrastructure projects.
- Minimum 2 years test leadership experience in application development projects.
- At least 3 years experience planning and following up testing activities and test environments, including budget responsibility.
- At least 3 years experience leading at least two people in a central test function managing three or more parallel projects.
- At least 1 year experience leading verification, validation, acceptance testing, performance testing, and security testing.
- ISTQB Advanced and/or ISEB Practitioner Level certification.
- At least 5 years experience using HP ALM (version 11.x minimum, including 1 year with version 12.x).
- At least 2 years experience with Azure DevOps Server or equivalent.
- At least 3 years experience developing or maintaining a test center concept.
- At least 14 months experience in business or method development within testing.
- At least 2 years experience as a software developer or programmer.
- Proven strong communication and social skills.
- Fluent in Swedish and English, both spoken and written.
- Ability to pass security clearance as the work involves a security-classified environment.
Responsibilities:
- Lead testing efforts in projects while managing and coordinating a test function.
- Plan, coordinate, and follow up on test activities and test environments.
- Drive long-term development of test methods and test environments.
- Manage personnel resources within the test function.
- Ensure quality, efficiency, and governance of test operations.
- Combine operational test leadership (planning, execution, reporting) with strategic tasks (budgeting, capacity planning, development of test center concepts).
Required hard skills:
- Test leadership in large, distributed organizations.
- Experience in IT infrastructure and application development test projects.
- Test planning, coordination, and budget management.
- Personnel leadership and coordination across multiple projects.
- Verification, validation, acceptance, performance, and security testing.
- ISTQB Advanced or ISEB Practitioner certification.
- HP ALM (11.x and 12.x)
- Azure DevOps Server or equivalent tools.
- Test center concept development and maintenance.
- Business and method development within testing.
- Software development/programming experience.
Recommended hard skills:
- Experience establishing test environments with technical teams.
- Experience working in security-classified or regulated environments.
- Experience with test strategy improvement and quality assurance efforts.
Soft skills:
- Strong leadership and strategic thinking combined with hands-on operational ability.
- Ability to structure complex tasks and communicate clearly.
- Pedagogical and collaborative approach.
- Experience driving improvements in technical environments.
- Strong communication and social skills.
Coding languages:
- Not specifically required but understanding from programming experience is beneficial.
Natural languages:
- Swedish (Proficient)
- English (Proficient)
Cultural skills:
- Experience working in geographically distributed large organizations.
- Ability to work in security-classified environments.
- Collaborative and improvement-driven mindset.