Application Modernization Testing Lead

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🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $143.6k - $273k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Kyndryl

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2021

🏢 Enterprise

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

Enterprise • Cybersecurity • SaaS

Kyndryl is a leading IT infrastructure services provider, serving thousands of enterprise customers worldwide. The company specializes in designing, building, managing, and modernizing complex, mission-critical information systems. Kyndryl offers a range of services including IT consulting, cloud services, cybersecurity, data and AI solutions, and digital workplace transformation. With a strong focus on innovation, partnerships, and co-creation, Kyndryl helps businesses tackle IT complexity and drive operational excellence. The company operates across various industries such as automotive, healthcare, banking, and more, providing expertise and solutions to address industry-specific challenges. Kyndryl's global network and strategic alliances empower enterprises to adapt to the evolving technology landscape, ensuring their essential systems are reliable and efficient.

📋 Description

• Define and execute the enterprise testing vision for application modernization programs • Establish a scalable Testing COE operating model supporting multiple modernization engagements • Create testing standards, methodologies, governance processes, templates, accelerators, and reusable assets • Drive continuous improvement of testing practices through automation, AI, and modern quality engineering approaches • Develop a multi-year roadmap for testing modernization capabilities • Define quality strategies for Mainframe modernization, Cloud transformation, Monolith decomposition, API modernization, ERP modernization, Custom application modernization • Establish validation approaches for functional equivalency, regression testing, integration testing, data migration validation, performance testing, security testing, user acceptance testing (UAT) • Ensure modernization programs achieve business continuity and production readiness objectives • Define enterprise-wide automation architecture and tooling standards • Lead implementation of test automation frameworks, API automation, performance automation, CI/CD quality gates, service virtualization, synthetic test data generation • Drive adoption of Agentic AI capabilities including test case generation, test data creation, defect triage agents, test execution optimization, equivalence validation agents • Establish measurable automation adoption and coverage objectives • Define quality policies, KPIs, reporting standards, and executive dashboards • Monitor program-level quality risks and remediation plans • Lead quality reviews, release readiness assessments, and audit compliance activities • Serve as the escalation point for major testing, quality, and release risks

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of software testing, quality engineering, or application delivery experience • 8+ years leading enterprise-scale testing organizations or COEs • Proven experience supporting large-scale application modernization initiatives • Experience leading testing across: Mainframe applications, Distributed platforms, Cloud-native environments, SaaS ecosystems • Demonstrated success building global delivery organizations and governance frameworks • Experience managing executive stakeholders and complex transformation programs • Experience in financial services, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications, or other regulated industries (preferred) • Understanding of compliance frameworks and audit requirements (preferred) • Industry certifications such as: ISTQB Advanced Certified Agile Tester, SAFe Agilist, AWS/Azure Cloud Certifications, DevOps Certifications (preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical and dental coverage • Disability • Retirement benefits • Paid leave and paid time off • Kyndryl's discretionary annual bonus program