Senior Test Manager

at  Transport for London

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Leadership & Strategic Oversight: Define and oversee the test strategy across multiple project streams and teams, ensuring alignment with business objectives and quality expectations. Provide strategic direction across teams to ensure consistency in testing practices and adherence to project timelines.
Multi-Team & Resource Management: Manage the allocation of resources across multiple teams and projects, ensuring each team is equipped with the skills and tools required to achieve project ob-jectives. Regularly review and adjust resource allocation based on project needs, priorities, and team workloads in collaboration with the Head of Delivery and Test.
Standardisation & Methodology: Establish consistent testing methodologies across all project streams, ensuring best practices and compliance with organisational and industry standards across multiple teams. Maintain standardised processes for multi-vendor projects to streamline delivery.
Automation & Efficiency: Lead efforts to integrate test automation within teams, promoting tools that enhance productivity, accuracy, and efficiency across all testing activities. Ensure automation solutions are scalable and reusable, providing long-term cost savings.
Metrics & Reporting: Develop KPIs, metrics, and regular reporting to monitor productivity and quali-ty across teams. Deliver concise and actionable reports to stakeholders, tracking overall perfor-mance, defect resolution, and risk management.
People Leadership & Development: Recruit, develop, and manage multiple cross-functional testing teams, promoting a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and innovation. Conduct per-formance reviews, set team goals, and foster a strong technical skill base across teams.
Risk Management: Conduct proactive risk assessment across all project streams, implementing ro-bust risk mitigation strategies to maintain quality standards and minimise delivery delays.
Stakeholder & Vendor Engagement: Build and maintain effective relationships with internal stake-holders and external vendors, ensuring alignment on quality standards and contractual testing re-quirements.

KNOWLEDGE

• Extensive knowledge of Agile methodologies, test automation frameworks, and quali-ty assurance best practices, with the ability to manage cross-functional testing across multi-ple teams.
• Proficient in software testing and development management tools, such as Microsoft Visual Studio Test and Azure DevOps.
• Skilled in scaling testing strategies to accommodate multiple, simultaneous project streams within complex enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with regulatory safety standards, quality legislation, and relevant industry standards.
• Degree in a relevant subject area or ISEB certification is desirable.

SKILLS

• Multi-Team Leadership: Exceptional ability to lead and allocate resources across multiple testing teams, ensuring alignment with project requirements and quality goals.
• Strategic Test Management: Skilled in developing and executing comprehensive test strategies for complex, multi-stream projects, ensuring quality and consistency across all teams.
• Automation Leadership: Strong experience in overseeing test automation integra-tion across teams, promoting efficiency and reusability of testing solutions.
• Communication & Stakeholder Engagement: Excellent verbal and written skills with a demonstrated ability to convey complex information to various stakeholders, fostering clarity and understanding across teams.
• Collaboration & Influence: Proven capacity to inspire and influence multiple teams, driving quality-focused practices and fostering alignment across all testing functions.

EXPERIENCE

• Extensive experience managing multiple teams within large, multi-vendor systems development projects.
• Proven ability to deliver multi-stream test operations in Agile environments, with strong alignment to CI/CD, TDD, BDD, and high levels of automation.
• Demonstrated success in managing budgetary and resource allocation for large test-ing operations across various project streams.
• Strong background in leading test strategy development, defect prioritisation, and stakeholder engagement for complex, high-impact projects.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Please note that you must apply by using your CV and a covering letter. Please think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience outlined in the job description and ensure your CV reflects the requirements of the role.
We will endeavour to give candidates as much notice as possible however some interviews/assessments will be organised at short notice and will require a degree of flexibility.

Please refer the Job description for details