Programme Test Manager - Insurance Transformation & Migration - 1 Year Contract - Inside IR35 - Manc

Key Responsibilities

• Define, own, and maintain the programme-wide Test Strategy across all delivery streams
• Develop and govern the Integrated Master Test Plan across platform delivery, customisation, migration, business testing, releases, and cutover
• Lead and quality-assure Test Managers and Test Leads across multiple vendors, locations, and delivery teams
• Establish common standards, quality gates, entry and exit criteria, metrics, reporting cadence, and evidence requirements
• Own programme-level assurance across system, integration, end-to-end, migration, regression, UAT, non-functional, and operational readiness testing
• Lead migration assurance, including transformation validation, reconciliation, controls, exception management, dress rehearsals, and production verification
• Establish cross-vendor defect governance and maintain end-to-end traceability from requirements through testing, defects, and acceptance evidence

What You Will Ideally Bring

• Extensive Programme Test Manager experience on large, complex transformation and migration programmes
• Demonstrable ownership of testing across multiple workstreams, vendors, and locations, including offshore teams
• Strong Policy Administration System experience within Life, Protection, Pensions, Annuities, or Long-Term Savings
• Significant data migration testing experience, including reconciliation, transformation validation, exception analysis, rehearsals, and production verification
• Proven ability to define programme test strategies, integrated plans, quality gates, and enterprise-level governance
• Strong defect governance and management-information discipline, translating complex data into a clear readiness position
• Experience governing UAT, business acceptance, operational readiness, major releases, cutover, and production assurance
• Strong executive stakeholder management, including engagement with Programme Directors, CIOs, Steering Committees, and senior business leaders
• Experience in regulated UK or Irish Financial Services, with strong audit, traceability, and evidence disciplines

Contract Details

• Duration: 1 year
• Day Rate: £475 per day
• Determination: Inside IR35
• Location: Edinburgh/Manchester - Hybrid, 3 days/week in office
• Start Date: ASAP