SENIOR PROGRAM TEST MANAGER

SENIOR PROGRAM TEST MANAGER Overview

This role is for a senior test leadership professional supporting Wealth & Retirement platform programmes. The position focuses on building and directing the testing approach across major delivery work, with responsibility for governance, release confidence, and overall quality outcomes. The successful candidate will help ensure that platform changes are testable, resilient, and ready for release, while also influencing wider delivery decisions that affect quality.

The organisation is a global technology services and consulting company that works across consulting, design, engineering, and operations. It supports clients with digital transformation and operates across many countries with a large workforce and partner network. The role is based in Norwich, Norfolk.

What you will do

• Own and direct the testing strategy for Wealth & Retirement platform programmes, making sure governance, release assurance, and quality standards are consistently applied.
• Work with product, architecture, and solution design stakeholders to improve how systems are built and delivered, with a focus on quality, testability, operational resilience, and release readiness.
• Bring together and manage complicated delivery dependencies across vendors, business teams, release managers, environment specialists, and third-party suppliers.
• Lead improvements in quality practices by increasing automation, embedding quality checks into CI/CD pipelines, using risk-based testing methods, and driving productivity gains.
• Produce clear reporting for senior leaders covering delivery status, release risks, defect trends, dependency issues, and the overall quality position.

Skills and experience needed

• Deep understanding of Wealth & Retirement platforms, including pensions, workplace savings, investment products, and adviser-led wealth services.
• Strong background in test management, including functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing support, and release assurance.
• Experience establishing and operating quality governance, managing defects, planning test data, ensuring environments are ready, and applying risk-based testing.
• Ability to manage stakeholders effectively at executive level and across delivery teams, suppliers, and business partners.
• Knowledge of automation strategy, API testing, CI/CD delivery pipelines, and quality engineering practices.
• Solid test management capability is explicitly required.
• Experience with FNZ or a similar wealth platform ecosystem would be beneficial.
• Background in platform migrations, large-scale transformation programmes, and release management would be an advantage.
• Helpful experience includes architecture review, integration design, data flow analysis, APIs, batch processing, and operational control design.
• Exposure to GenAI-enabled testing tools or other quality transformation initiatives would be desirable.
• Experience in regulated financial services environments with strong audit, compliance, and governance controls is preferred.

Additional context

The company positions this role within a broader transformation agenda and describes its culture as one that encourages reinvention, professional growth, and continuous evolution. It presents itself as a purpose-driven business that supports people in shaping their careers and developing their skills.

The employer states that it is an equal opportunity organisation and considers all qualified applicants without discrimination based on protected characteristics. It also says it is committed to an accessible, supportive, and inclusive workplace, and that reasonable accommodations will be provided to applicants, including people with disabilities, during the recruitment and selection process when communicated in advance where possible.

How to apply

Applicants can use the on-page application options, including the standard apply flow and the LinkedIn application route. The page also includes a talent network registration option and a job search link for exploring other openings.

The page warns candidates to be cautious of suspicious emails, advertisements, or individuals claiming to recruit for the company. It directs concerns about unethical or unfair hiring practices to the company’s Ombuds Group and notes that the recruitment helpdesk email should not be used for sending resumes because it is not monitored for applications.

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