Senior Test Lead Government Digital Services (Flexible)

scrumconnect ltd; Jersey Marine; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Scrumconnect Consulting in the UK is seeking a Test Lead/Test Manager to own the quality strategy for digital government services. You will lead testing across multi‑disciplinary teams in hybrid cloud and legacy environments, balancing reliability, security, accessibility and compliance.

The role combines hands‑on test leadership with strategic quality ownership, influencing go/no‑go release decisions and shaping environments, data, and processes to support trusted government services.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to define test strategies for complex, multi‑team digital programmes.
• Hands‑on experience designing and delivering test management plans in regulated environments.
• Experience with API, UI, and service layer automation (e.g., RestAssured, Cypress, Selenium, Playwright).
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI).
• Strong non‑functional testing knowledge: performance, resilience and security.
• Familiarity with WCAG 2.2 accessibility and GOV.UK design standards.
• Excellent communication and ability to articulate quality risk to senior stakeholders.
• Experience delivering testing in UK public sector/government contexts.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the overall test strategy across Java Spring Boot, AWS Serverless, Ruby on Rails with React, and Legacy Mainframe.
• Lead, mentor, and coach testers across one or more multi‑disciplinary teams.
• Plan and coordinate functional, integration, regression, performance, accessibility, and security testing.
• Establish quality metrics, reporting, and dashboards for stakeholders.
• Drive shift‑left testing within design, refinement, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Own end‑to‑end test environments and test data strategies.
• Lead defect triage and root cause analysis to drive quality improvements.
• Contribute to release planning and go/no‑go decisions.
• Ensure compliance with WCAG 2.2, security assurance, and service standards.
• Collaborate with security, architecture, product, and delivery leads.

Skills

Test leadership

Test strategy

Quality assurance

CI/CD testing

Non-functional testing

Accessibility testing

Security testing

Agile delivery

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Jira

Zephyr

TestRail

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Postman

Selenium

Cypress

Playwright

JUnit

Jest

Job description

Scrumconnect Consulting in the UK is seeking a Test Lead/Test Manager to own the quality strategy for digital government services. You will lead testing across multi‑disciplinary teams in hybrid cloud and legacy environments, balancing reliability, security, accessibility and compliance.

The role combines hands‑on test leadership with strategic quality ownership, influencing go/no‑go release decisions and shaping environments, data, and processes to support trusted government services.