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• Corp-Corp

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• No of position :- ( 1 )

• Post :- 17th Jan 2026

The client's new fare payment system will make paying for transit services in Massachusetts easier and more convenient with a full replacement of the client's automated fare collection system (the 'CharlieCard' system). The new system will include new hardware in stations, on vehicles and at other locations throughout the client service network and will be supported by a new back office. It will improve how the client currently collects fares and enable the sort of changes the client wants to make in the future.
 
About the Position
The Fare System Quality Assurance Lead – Fare Transformation will have overall responsibility for compliance demonstration, quality assurance, and defect resolution for the new fare system. They will lead test strategy, monitor vendor's progress towards demonstrating compliance with contractual requirements, manage QA activities, oversee test development and execution, manage the prioritization and handling of defects, and hold vendor accountable for maintaining test equipment in the test lab. They will work across all technical components including fare collection devices, fare vending machines, payments technology, website and mobile app, customer support software, retail solution, APIs, integrations with other internal and external systems, tap processing, and information security.
 
Primary Responsibilities

• Lead test strategy, balancing priorities such as test coverage, test quality, competing demands, and project schedule.
• Track, measure, and report on progress identifying, writing, and executing tests, and resolving defects.
• Identify systemic problems, inefficiencies, risks, and opportunities for improvement; work with workstream leads and vendor to develop and implement plans to address.
• Work with workstream leads and with vendor to set overall testing approach for different functional areas.
• Manage review of test scripts and witnessing of test execution by the vendor.
• Plan, coordinate, and conduct ad hoc testing independently from the vendor in both the lab and the field.
• Evaluate completeness of test coverage.
• Collaborate with workstream leads on implications of design changes to test scripts and implications of test findings to design.
• Monitor progress of vendor's compliance with contractual requirements.
• Evaluate ways to demonstrate compliance with a requirement.
• Review certifications and test waiver requests.
• Manage the compliance matrix, which tracks vendor progress toward meeting over 7,000 contractual requirements.
• Notify stakeholders of updates to compliance matrix, coordinate their review of changes, and manage preparation of comments and their transmittal to vendor.
• Manage defect handling, including reporting, prioritization, tracking, and validating resolution.
• Provide written and verbal explanations of technical issues non-technical stakeholders, clearly conveying information about impact to users and agency operations.
• Work with vendor to track, communicate, and validate deployment of features and bugfixes to lab environment.
• Hold vendor accountable for lab hardware and software availability.