Test Manager - Contractor

Please note this is a Contractor role until March 2027 (possibility of extension)

Daily rate:- £600

Who are RECCo?

We are an independent, non-profit organisation responsible for the Retail Energy Code — a key part of how the GB retail energy market is regulated.

But we don’t just manage rules. We look ahead, not just react, helping the market change in the right way. We deliver secure digital services, clear governance, and practical solutions that protect consumers, support innovation, and help the energy system move towards net zero.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll own and coordinate end-to-end testing across:

• Tariff Interoperability – 2 days/week (average)
• Consumer Consent Solution – 3 days/week (average)

You’ll provide independent assurance that solutions are fit for purpose, ensuring supplier/user readiness through structured testing, attestation, evidence review, and pre-go-live monitoring. You will also ensure that partner‐led testing is appropriate, sufficient, and evidenced, and that end‐to‐end, organisational, and operational risks are understood and mitigated ahead of go‐live.

About the projects:

Tariff Interoperability

The Tariff Interoperability project aims to make energy tariff pricing data consistently accessible and interoperable across the retail energy market, enabling suppliers and authorised third parties to share and consume tariff information through standardised APIs. The project improves transparency and comparability of tariffs, supports the development of smart and flexible energy services, and lowers barriers for innovation by ensuring technical and operational consistency. Tariff Interoperability focuses initially on public tariff pricing data, with customer‐specific tariffs enabled through integration with the Consumer Consent Solution where consent is required.

Consumer Consent Solution (CCS)

The Consumer Consent Solution will deliver a secure, standardised digital service that enables energy consumers to easily grant, manage, review, and withdraw consent for the sharing of their energy data. The solution is designed to put consumers in control, strengthen trust and transparency, and ensure that data is shared in a way that is compliant with UK data protection requirements, including GDPR. By providing a single, consistent consent framework across the retail energy market, CCS supports innovation, competition, and better consumer outcomes while reducing risk and complexity for industry participants.

Your Responsibilities

End to End Test Ownership & Assurance

• Own and coordinate end to end testing across the Consumer Consent Solution (CCS) and Tariff Interoperability (TI) projects, providing independent assurance that solutions are fit for purpose and ready for go live.
• Orchestrate multi party testing across technology partners, suppliers, CCS Users, RECCo, and assurance providers, ensuring end to end service integrity across systems and organisations.
• Ensure functional, non functional, operational, integration, and security risks are identified, understood, and mitigated prior to go live.

Test Strategy, Governance & Planning

• Define, own, and maintain the overall Test Strategy, Test Approach, and Test Plans for CCS and TI, ensuring alignment with SteerCo approved scope, milestones, and delivery plans.
• Ensure testing strategies reflect complex, component based solutions, including platform services, APIs, integrations, monitoring tooling, and operational dependencies.
• Review, challenge, and assure technology partner and supplier test strategies, test plans, coverage assumptions, entry/exit criteria, defect management approaches, and reporting.
• Maintain alignment between testing activities, solution design, and operational readiness.

Cross Party Test Coordination

• Plan, sequence, and coordinate testing activities across multiple organisations, managing dependencies and ensuring timely execution across sandbox and production environments.
• Coordinate defect triage, prioritisation, resolution, re testing, and closure across delivery partners, suppliers, and CCS/TI users.

User & Supplier Onboarding, Testing & Attestation

• Establish and manage onboarding and off boarding processes for suppliers, CCS users, and TI users across sandbox and production environments.
• Define, communicate, and maintain standardised test scenarios and minimum testing requirements for suppliers and CCS/TI users.
• Manage testing and formal attestation processes, ensuring all parties evidence completion of required testing prior to go live.
• Coordinate pre go live monitoring and readiness checks, including API availability and operational health, prior to inclusion on the CCS Directory or TI Supplier Register.

Evidence, Risk & Assurance Management

• Assure the quality, completeness, and consistency of test evidence provided by suppliers, CCS users, and partners.
• Perform risk based reviews of test evidence in line with the agreed Test Strategy and Approach.
• Identify testing related risks, issues, and non conformances, escalating with clear impact assessments and mitigation actions where required.

Defect & Remediation Management

• Establish and manage remedial processes for non conformant suppliers or CCS users.Ensure defects impacting service readiness are clearly prioritised, owned, tracked, resolved, and successfully re tested ahead of go live.

Scope of Test Assurance

• Ensure testing covers, as appropriate across CCS and TI:
• Platform and central service components
• End to end functional and integration scenarios
• API build, monitoring, security, and automated compliance testing
• Information security testing, including negative scenarios and penetration testing coordination
• Non functional requirements (availability, performance, latency, capacity, resilience, retry and caching behaviour)
• Business continuity and disaster recovery testing (in partnership with technology providers)
• Operational readiness, monitoring, and performance assurance integrations
• End to end user and consumer journeys within CCS scope

Reporting & Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary testing interface between project teams, technology partners, suppliers, operational teams, assurance providers, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Provide clear, concise, and decision oriented testing status reporting to Steering Committees and Working Groups.
• Support SteerCo decision making relating to test approach endorsement, go live readiness, and testing related budget or resourcing matters.

About You

• 5+ years in Test Management/QA Management roles, preferably in large-scale digital transformation projects, involving involving 3rd party service providers.
• Hands-on experience with agile methodologies and sprint-based project delivery.
• ISTQB accreditation or equivalent certification in software testing/QA.
• Proven experience in developing and managing comprehensive QA frameworks, aligning testing strategies with project goals.
• Hands-on experience in independent testing and UAT processes.
• Good knowledge of test management tools and best practices in quality assurance.
• Commitment to collaborating with colleagues in cross-functional teams to achieve shared goals.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to liaise with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to manage testing activities across different teams, ensuring coordination and seamless delivery between service providers.

Our Commitment

At RECCo we are committed to cultivating an environment that promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We want you to bring your authentic self to work every day and feel comfortable being you, no matter your age, gender identity, ethnicity, religion, disability status or otherwise.