Test Manager

Test Manager

6 months (Glasgow/Remote)

490 p/d (Outside IR35)

We are seeking an experienced Test Manager to support the delivery and ongoing evolution of a secure digital platform within an agile environment. You will work closely with Scrum teams, a Service Owner and Lead Architect, ensuring effective test strategy, automation and quality assurance across complex technology programmes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and support a small team of SDETs
• Own and coordinate test planning, schedules and delivery
• Drive test automation across CI/CD pipelines
• Build and maintain testing artefacts, identifying risks and improvements
• Manage third‑party testing providers
• Support stable, secure and high‑quality releases

Skills & Experience

• Strong test management experience with the ability to assess overall test coverage, identify gaps and evaluate risk
• Proven capability to review project deliverables, define test cases and direct SDETs on testing priorities
• Experience assessing and selecting test tooling and frameworks, embedding best‑fit solutions across teams

• Strong agile delivery experience and stakeholder engagement
• Best‑practice test approaches and automation
• CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Selenium WebDriver
• Java, JavaScript, BDD (Gherkin/Cucumber)
• AWS environments
• Databases: MariaDB, Oracle, MySQL or AWS Aurora (2+)
• MySQL scripting (2+ years in the last 5 years)

This role supports the continuous evolution of a secure, modular digital platform delivering improved services and outcomes. Preference will be given to candidate with current BPSS and who are SC eligible.