Test Manager

Key responsibilities

• Own and develop the programme's Quality Assurance and Testing strategy.
• Lead the planning, governance and execution of testing across the delivery life cycle.
• Ensure quality is Embedded from the earliest stages of delivery.
• Coordinate functional and non-functional testing across teams and environments.
• Establish appropriate test governance, reporting and quality controls.
• Manage defect governance, quality risks and risk-based delivery decisions.
• Monitor test progress and clearly report outcomes, risks and dependencies to senior stakeholders.
• Drive improvements to test processes, delivery efficiency and team capability.
• Coordinate handovers and testing outcomes across later test phases.
• Engage closely with programme leads, workstream leads, delivery managers and technical teams.

Essential experience

• Extensive experience operating as a Test Manager or Programme Test Manager.
• Proven ownership of test strategies for large or complex technology programmes.
• Strong functional and non-functional testing experience.
• Experience coordinating testing across multiple teams, workstreams and environments.
• Strong test governance, planning and delivery management capability.
• Experience managing defects, quality risks and readiness decisions.
• Strong technical awareness and the ability to work effectively with engineering teams.
• Experience presenting test progress, outcomes and risks to senior stakeholders.
• Evidence of test-process improvement and optimisation.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Additional requirements

• Candidates must be UK citizens, currently based in the UK.
• Candidates must have lived continuously in the UK for the past five years.
• BPSS is mandatory and will be arranged for the successful candidate.
• Candidates must be able to undertake occasional project-led travel within the UK.