Senior Test Engineer & Test Lead - Hybrid (SC Clearance)

InvitISE Ltd; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 96,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

InvitISE Ltd is seeking a Senior Test Engineer for a central government department. The role is hybrid across multiple UK sites with around three days on site weekly.

You will own the testing strategy, oversee delivery of testing activities, and drive standardisation of testing practices across teams. The position involves leadership, stakeholder communication, and shaping tooling decisions.

Qualifications

• Ability to define a testing strategy and lead multiple test teams.
• Experience planning and coordinating functional and non‑functional testing.
• Ability to manage defects with business stakeholders and report results.

Responsibilities

• Define the overall testing strategy and provide technical leadership across multiple test teams.
• Own delivery of testing activities against quality, time and cost objectives.
• Act as escalation point for defects and blockers.
• Shape test infrastructure and tooling decisions and share reusable libraries and lessons learned.

Skills

Defining test strategy

Leading test engineering teams

Planning testing (functional & non‑fun

Defect management & prioritisation

Communicating results to stakeholders

Tools

Informatica PowerCenter

Oracle

SQL

AWS

Automation testing

Job description

InvitISE Ltd is seeking a Senior Test Engineer for a central government department. The role is hybrid across multiple UK sites with around three days on site weekly.

You will own the testing strategy, oversee delivery of testing activities, and drive standardisation of testing practices across teams. The position involves leadership, stakeholder communication, and shaping tooling decisions.