Senior Testing Coordinator

Freelance Project: Senior Testing Coordinator

Duration: 6 months (until 28 February 2027)

Work Schedule: Full-time, single assignment

Location: Antwerp Region, Belgium (3 days per week on-site)

Languages: English (working language), Dutch is an advantage

Role Overview

A leading organization operating within the industrial IoT and connected technology sector is seeking a Senior Testing Coordinator to support a major integration program involving next-generation platform services, mobile applications, web portals, and CIAM capabilities.

The assignment is focused on establishing a sustainable testing organization across multiple parallel delivery streams. The consultant will take ownership of cross-team testing coordination, implement a scalable test data management capability, improve testing processes, and raise overall testing maturity. This is a hands-on leadership role combining strategic vision with practical execution.

Core Responsibilities

Testing Strategy & Coordination

• Build a collaborative quality culture across multiple teams
• Define the testing strategy, including manual, automated, pipeline, and scheduled testing approaches
• Manage integrated test planning and provide a consolidated view of test readiness across all delivery streams
• Develop and maintain a risk-based end-to-end test scenario catalogue
• Define test entry and exit criteria, testing definitions of ready and done, and cross-team defect triage processes
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Tech Leads, and key stakeholders

Test Data Management

• Design and implement a governed, reusable, self-service test data capability
• Establish dataset catalogues, ownership, version control, and documentation standards
• Support complex testing scenarios involving device types, configurations, licenses, user roles, and organizational structures
• Develop a repeatable CIAM role and permission testing matrix
• Translate test data requirements into backlog items and coordinate delivery with Product Owners

Environments, Devices & Test Coverage

• Define testing approaches for connected devices, gateways, controllers, sensors, and related hardware
• Establish provisioning, commissioning, firmware, and configuration validation processes
• Design and implement a device lab and hardware-in-the-loop testing strategy
• Determine appropriate usage of physical devices, simulators, and virtualized environments
• Reduce reliance on production data and production environments for testing purposes
• Create operational runbooks that allow non-specialists to execute complex validation scenarios

Migration & Compatibility Validation

• Define backward compatibility testing approaches for domain transitions
• Validate data consistency and integrity across legacy and target systems during migrations
• Implement dual-source validation patterns for coexistence and migration scenarios
• Communicate migration timelines, dependencies, risks, and readiness to stakeholders

Maturity Improvement & Knowledge Transfer

• Coach test engineers and technical teams to improve testing practices and maturity
• Support the adoption of relevant generative AI tools within testing activities
• Define KPIs, establish a baseline, and provide monthly reporting on progress
• Deliver a complete handover package including a documented 30/60/90-day continuation plan

Profile & Required Experience

Professional Background

• Minimum 10 years of experience in software testing
• Minimum 4 years of experience coordinating testing across multiple parallel teams within complex programs
• Proven experience designing and implementing test data management solutions, including synthetic data and governed datasets
• Strong hands-on approach with experience building test data generators, harnesses, and automated end-to-end scenarios
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments with multiple stakeholder groups
• Ability to influence Product Owners and Technical Leads without direct managerial authority
• Experience supporting teams with varying levels of testing maturity

Technical & Functional Skills

• API and integration testing
• End-to-end validation across backend, web, and mobile platforms
• Test automation within CI/CD environments
• Playwright
• BrowserStack
• REST API testing
• Python
• Azure DevOps
• Jira
• Confluence
• Test management tools such as Xray
• OAuth2 and OpenID Connect (OIDC)
• Identity and Access Management testing
• Role, permission, and multi-tenant access models
• Validation of data during platform migration initiatives
• Experience wi