Mission Overview:
Join Keystone Solutions as a consultant to lead testing and UAT initiatives for our client within a dynamic program environment. As a Keystone Solutions consultant, you will collaborate closely with the client's stakeholders, work partially on-site in Belgium, and drive end-to-end testing strategy, planning, execution, and reporting. This consultancy mission places you at the center of quality assurance leadership, automation integration, cross-team communication, and governance—delivering robust outcomes while leveraging Keystone Solutions' supportive, growth-focused consultancy framework.
Key Responsibilities:
As a Keystone Solutions consultant working with our client, you will be responsible for the following:
Test Planning & Strategy
- Define the test approach, scope, objectives, resource needs, timelines, and deliverables for each project, ensuring alignment with overall program plans and release schedules.
- Develop the overall test strategy in collaboration with external partners, ensuring effective internal reporting and structured communication across teams.
- Plan and coordinate the integration of automated tests into the overall testing framework, supporting the transition toward increased automation maturity.
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Set up, coordinate, and supervise UAT activities for clients, ensuring smooth execution, timely issue resolution, and high-quality outcomes.
- Ensure that test environments and test data are properly prepared, stable, and available in line with project schedules.
Quality Assurance & Continuous Improvement
- Oversee test case design, execution, and coverage to ensure all functional and nonfunctional requirements are adequately tested.
- Stay up to date with best practices, tools, and emerging trends to propose targeted quality improvements.
- Manage the defect lifecycle: track, prioritize, and drive resolution in collaboration with development and business teams, ensuring timely communication and documentation.
- Validate partner proposals and deliverables through sample testing and performance evaluation.
- Take a proactive role in identifying, discussing, and implementing testing improvements with the Project Manager and other stakeholders.
- Assess and help evolve partner testing standards and procedures to enhance UAT effectiveness.
Team Leadership
- Lead and coordinate a team of testers (onshore and offshore).
- Assign tasks, provide coaching, and foster a collaborative, high-performance work environment.
Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication
- Act as the central point of contact for PMs, BAs, developers, testers, and external partners.
- Communicate clearly, consistently, and proactively with all stakeholders on test progress, risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Work closely with Project Managers and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into test plans and strategies.
- Actively drive discussions around test quality, process improvements, and risk mitigation, ensuring testing activities remain aligned with overall project objectives.
Governance, Metrics & Reporting
- Define, monitor, and enforce testing governance across assigned projects, serving as the escalation point for quality-related decisions and ensuring alignment with organizational standards.
- Establish and maintain testing standards, processes, and methodologies in line with industry best practices.
- Identify potential testing risks early and develop mitigation strategies to minimize their impact.
- Continuously monitor test progress and quality metrics to ensure compliance with organizational standards.
- Produce concise weekly test dashboards and contribute to Go/No-Go readiness reports to support informed decision-making.
- Provide concise follow-up reports regarding ongoing testing activities to ensure transparency and stakeholder alignment.
- Define, track, and report on key test metrics (e.g., defect density, test coverage, execution progress, UAT success rate) to provide actionable insights to stakeholders.
- Collaborate with release and deployment teams to ensure testing activities align with release timelines and do not introduce project delays.
- Monitor project changes and assess their impact on testing plans, proactively adjusting test scope and resources.
Cost Awareness
- Monitor and manage the cost implications of proposed testing solutions and improvements, balancing quality and budget efficiency.
CONFORMITY CRITERIA
- Overall Testing Experience: Minimum 5 years of hands-on functional software testing.
- Test Management Experience: Minimum 3 years leading test strategy, planning, and execution.
- UAT Coordination: Minimum 2 years coordinating or supervising UAT activities.
- Agile Product Ownership: Minimum 3 years as Product Owner or equivalent.
- Distributed/Offshore Teams: Proven experience working in projects involving distributed or offshore teams (e.g. collaboration with remote QA or development teams).
- Domain Requirement: Min. 1 year experience in the Railway Sector especially in the planning department
- Office Presence: You need to be Onsite (Belgium) - 2 days per week
- English: Full professional proficiency and French or Dutch: Native or full professional proficiency.
EVALUATION CRITERIA
- 1) Core Testing Expertise
- Degree of completeness and complexity of testing activities performed in previous projects
- Types of testing covered (regression, integration, system, E2E)
- Level of involvement in defect lifecycle management
- Complexity of test scenarios handled
- 2) Test Strategy & Planning
- Depth of involvement in defining and executing test strategy and planning
- Responsibility level (definition vs. execution)
- Experience in managing test campaigns
- Ability to identify automation opportunities (risk/ROI-based)
- 3) Tools & Technical Proficiency
- Level of practical experience with key tools required for the mission
- Use of Jira and Confluence (scope and purpose)
- Experience with Postman for API testing
- Use of SQL for data validation
- 4) Agile Ways of Working
- Relevance and depth of experience in Agile environments
- Participation in Scrum ceremonies (planning, refinement)
- Role in ensuring testability of user stories
- Interaction with product backlog and stakeholders
- 5) Leadership & Coordination
- Level of responsibility in managing and coordinating testing activities
- Team coordination (size, role, responsibilities)
- Risk management and reporting activities
- Contribution to Go/No-Go decisions
Consultancy at Keystone Solutions
- Consultancy nature of work: You will operate as a Keystone Solutions consultant embedded with our client, working closely with their PMs, BAs, developers, testers, and partners to deliver the testing outcomes listed above. Expect a hybrid delivery model with on-site presence in Belgium and coordinated collaboration across distributed teams.
- On-site client collaboration: Engage on-site with the client a minimum of two days per week to accelerate decision-making, foster stakeholder alignment, and ensure timely UAT execution and governance adherence.
Dynamic Projects Across Clients
- Work on high-impact testing missions across varied client environments, including complex domains such as railway planning, where your UAT leadership, governance discipline, and automation integration expertise will be highly valued.
- Benefit from exposure to diverse platforms, processes, and partner ecosystems, sharpening your ability to scale best practices and deliver quality at pace.
Learning and Development at Keystone Solutions
- Turbo-charged growth through curated learning paths, coaching from seasoned test leaders, knowledge-sharing rituals, and access to modern QA tooling to advance automation maturity and governance excellence.
- Backed by Keystone Solutions' community of practice, you will continuously refine test strategy, UAT orchestration, and metric-driven reporting skills.
Career Growth in a Consultancy Framework
- Ambition skyrocketing: Build a visible impact track-record across engagements, evolve into principal-level advisory roles, and shape testing standards that ripple across multiple clients.
- Opportunities to lead distributed teams, influence Go/No-Go decisions, and mentor peers within Keystone Solutions and on client projects.
Keystone Values in Every Engagement
- As a K-Stone, you bring excellence, ownership, collaboration, and integrity to every client mission—translating business goals into actionable test strategies, ensuring transparent communications, and driving continuous improvement with measurable results.
Role-Specific Consultancy Opportunity
- Apply your test leadership to real-world client scenarios that demand robust UAT coordination, structured governance, rigorous metrics, and cost-aware quality improvements—particularly valuable when collaborating with external partners and distributed teams.
- Leverage your experience within the railway sector planning context to elevate domain-relevant testing standards and enhance UAT effectiveness across engagements.
How to Apply
If you are ready to tackle technical and strategic challenges in a dynamic consultancy environment, apply today .
