Testing Lead

Who We Are

At Kyndryl, we run and reimagine the mission-critical technology systems that drive advantage for the world's leading businesses. We are at the heart of progress; with proven expertise and a continuous flow of AI-powered insight, enabling smarter decisions, faster innovation, and a lasting competitive edge. For our people-Kyndryls-that means doing purposeful work that powers human progress. Join us and experience a flexible, supportive environment where your well-being is prioritized and your potential can thrive.

The Role

The Testing Lead will coordinate functional, technical, regression, integration, performance, data validation, and user acceptance testing activities. The role will work closely with development teams, business users, architects, data teams, and operations teams to ensure defects are identified, prioritized, tracked, resolved, and validated in a controlled manner.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and manage the end-to-end testing strategy for application modernization initiatives.
• Coordinate test planning, test case design, execution, defect tracking, and test reporting.
• Ensure validation of legacy vs. modernized application behavior, including business rules, data outputs, interfaces, and batch/job processing.
• Lead functional, integration, regression, performance, data reconciliation, and UAT testing activities.
• Coordinate with development, business, architecture, data, infrastructure, and operations teams.
• Define entry and exit criteria for each testing phase.
• Manage defect triage, prioritization, root cause analysis, retesting, and closure.
• Ensure testing evidence, traceability, and quality metrics are properly documented.
• Provide clear status reporting on test progress, defects, risks, blockers, and readiness.

• Experience leading testing workstreams in application modernization, migration, or complex transformation programs.
• Strong knowledge of test strategy, test planning, functional testing, regression testing, integration testing, UAT, and defect management.
• Experience validating legacy-to-modernized application behavior, data reconciliation, and parallel testing is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with Mainframe, COBOL, Java, batch processing, databases, APIs, and enterprise integrations is a plus.
• Experience with test management and defect tracking tools.
• Strong analytical skills to identify gaps, exceptions, test coverage risks, and quality issues.
• Strong communication, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.