Test Manager

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities

Quality Strategy & Governance

• Develop and maintain quality approaches tailored to each programme or product, ensuring clarity and alignment across teams.
• Shape or validate test strategies to ensure comprehensive functional, non-functional, and process coverage.
• Consistently advocate for quality as a shared responsibility throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Conduct or coordinate formal quality reviews, assessments, and audits across teams or vendor partners.
• Identify gaps in processes, trace root causes, and recommend sustainable corrective actions.
• Verify the effectiveness of corrective actions and ensure compliance with standards and governance frameworks.

Risk Management & Testability

• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and product leads to anticipate risks early and influence design choices for improved testability and reliability.
• Lead release readiness assessments, ensuring coverage, defects, risks, and compliance are fully evaluated prior to go‐live.
• Communicate risks and issues clearly to technical and non‐technical stakeholders.

Team Guidance & Continuous Improvement

• Serve as the senior quality advisor, helping teams interpret expectations, select appropriate testing methods, and overcome delivery challenges.
• Provide mentorship to QAT engineers, automation specialists, and cross‐functional team members.
• Facilitate continuous improvement discussions grounded in data, insights, and practical constraints.
• Provide practical training, playbooks, and reusable patterns to embed best practices within teams.

Tools, Automation & Environment Readiness

• Review team test artefacts (test plans, automation frameworks, performance strategies) to ensure robustness and alignment with organisational expectations.
• Promote effective use of testing and quality tools, including automation frameworks, CI/CD integrations, and analytics dashboards.
• Support teams in adopting, improving, and optimising test environments, datasets, and toolchains.

Reporting & Stakeholder Communication

• Deliver reporting that highlights insights—not just metrics—to help leaders understand quality trends and make informed decisions.