Senior Programme Test Manager – Hybrid (UK & Ireland)

DCV Technologies; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

DCV Technologies is seeking a Programme Test Manager to lead end-to-end testing for a major protection insurance transformation and migration programme across the UK and Ireland. You will manage multiple test streams, drive quality governance and provide a single evidence-based view of quality and release readiness.

You will oversee test strategies, master test plans, and cross-vendor delivery, including offshore teams, ensuring regulatory alignment and robust defect governance.

Qualifications

• Extensive Programme Test Manager experience on large, complex transformation and migration programmes.
• Ownership of testing across multiple workstreams, vendors and locations, including offshore teams.
• Strong Policy Administration System experience in Life, Protection, Pensions, Annuities or Long-Term Savings.
• Significant data migration testing experience with reconciliation, transformation validation and production verification.
• Proven ability to define programme test strategies, integrated plans and governance.

Responsibilities

• Define, own and maintain the programme-wide Test Strategy across all delivery streams.
• Develop and govern the Integrated Master Test Plan across platform delivery, customization, migration, business testing, releases and cutover.
• Lead and quality-assure Test Managers and Test Leads across multiple vendors, locations and delivery teams.
• Establish common standards, quality gates, entry and exit criteria, metrics, reporting cadence and evidence requirements.
• Own programme-level assurance across system, integration, end-to-end, migration, regression, UAT, non-functional and operational readiness testing.

Skills

Programme Test Manager

Multi-vendor leadership

Policy Administration System

Data migration testing

Test strategy & governance

UAT & production assurance

Executive stakeholder management

Regulated UK/Irish FS

Jira/Confluence/Azure DevOps

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Azure DevOps

Job description

DCV Technologies is seeking a Programme Test Manager to lead end-to-end testing for a major protection insurance transformation and migration programme across the UK and Ireland. You will manage multiple test streams, drive quality governance and provide a single evidence-based view of quality and release readiness.

You will oversee test strategies, master test plans, and cross-vendor delivery, including offshore teams, ensuring regulatory alignment and robust defect governance.