Lead QA/Test Manager

Nuffield Health; Epsom; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Lead QA/Test Manager for a 12-month maternity cover role. This position involves leading QA efforts across critical healthcare technology domains, ensuring the quality of care and tools for staff. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in QA/testing, strong leadership skills, and a deep understanding of software testing methodologies. A competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package are offered.

Benefits

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare areas: Secondary, Diagnostics, EPR, LIMS, PACS & RIS.
• Proven experience line managing, mentoring and coaching QA Managers and QA Analysts.
• Deep understanding of software testing methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate QA and testing efforts across healthcare technology domains.
• Impact the quality of care provided to patients and tools for staff.
• Balance multiple priorities while dealing with ambiguity.

Skills

QA/testing

Communication

Collaboration

Tools

Selenium

Cypress

Playwright

Job description

Lead QA/Test Manager

Epsom & Barbican | Hybrid (One day a week ) | Fixed-Term (Maternity Cover, 12 months from August 2025 to July 2026) | Full-Time

Competitive salary available, depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

At Nuffield Health, we’re building a healthier nation—one day at a time. From award-winning hospitals and cutting-edge diagnostics to community wellbeing programmes, everything we do is driven by our purpose: to improve the health of the UK. And it all starts with people who are passionate about quality. People like you.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Lead QA / Test Manager to join our team on a 12-month maternity cover contract.

In this pivotal role, you’ll lead and coordinate QA and testing efforts across several critical healthcare technology domains, including:

• Secondary care systems

• Diagnostics

• Electronic Patient Records (EPR)

• Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)

• PACS/RIS (Imaging and Radiology Systems)

Your work will directly impact the quality of care we provide to patients and the tools our staff rely on every day.

You should have:

• Experience in most of the following healthcare areas: Secondary, Diagnostics, EPR, LIMS, PACS & RIS.

• Demonstrable knowledge and experience in QA/testing and supporting others in the same.

• Proven experience line managing, mentoring and coaching QA Managers and QA Analysts.

• Experience recruiting the best QA Managers & QA Analysts.

• Experience matrix-managing multi-disciplinary, cross-functional teams, working with a wide variety of stakeholders including product owners, delivery managers, architects and end-users.

• Experience of balancing multiple priorities, whilst dealing with ambiguity.

• Experience in capacity management of team members.

• Deep understanding of software testing methodologies including functional, regression and performance testing.

• Experience of communicating and documenting test strategies.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a sharp attention to detail that ensures high-quality outcomes.

You might have:

• Solid understanding of HL7 messaging

• Experience with test automation frameworks (e.g. Selenium, Cypress, Playwright).

• Experience working in both agile and waterfall teams.

• Experience monitoring and reporting on QA metrics.

• Knowledge of compliance standards relevant to the healthcare industry

• Experience working with overseas partners.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices

• Experience with AI-driven testing

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.

At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

Apply today… It starts with you.