Test Manager

Royal London; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider is looking for a Test Manager based in Edinburgh. This role involves managing and coordinating test activities across various teams and projects. The ideal candidate will define the test strategy, ensure governance, and manage test teams effectively. A strong background in test management and automation, alongside excellent leadership skills, is essential. The position offers competitive benefits, including a hybrid working model and comprehensive workplace perks.

Benefits

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Up to 14% employer matching pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Proven experience in test management across large-scale change initiatives.
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies and skilled in the test discipline.
• Experience with test automation frameworks and tools.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the test strategy for the value stream.
• Accountable for ensuring test governance in line with the defined strategy.
• Manage third party test teams and ensure alignment with delivery timelines.
• Champion continuous improvement in testing practices and tools.

Skills

Test management

Test automation

Performance optimisation

Coaching and mentoring

Tools

Azure tools

Job description

Job Title: Test Manager

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Edinburgh

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 26th January 2026

We have a unique opportunity to offer roles within the Chief Operating Office that will help shape the future of Royal London, across several disciplines.

Our Chief Operating Office (COO) works across Royal London to help deliver the Group's strategic ambitions. We work in partnership to deliver operational excellence, drive innovation, enhance customer experience, and protect our business from threats impacting our industry.

We are the largest business unit within Royal London, bringing together thousands of colleagues to look after millions of customers to deliver great outcomes for customers. Our business focuses on aligning colleagues, applications and projects with our three value streams: Long-Term Savings, Protection & Equity Release, and Long-Standing Customers & Annuities. This role is within the Individual Long-Term Savings value stream.

A Test Manager is required to manage and co-ordinate test activities across complex change deliveries, involving multiple teams and applications, in line with business priorities, technical roadmaps and broader strategic goals. To build and enhance test capabilities for the value stream, in relation to people, processes and technology, including recruitment, test strategy and test automation with some line management accountabilities.

About the Opportunity

• Modernising our technology is fundamental to realising our ambitions and achieving sustained competitive advantage. It will allow us to develop an innovative and leading proposition, achieve speed to market and ongoing pace of change, and maintain a competitive cost-to-develop and cost-to-serve.
• We are seeking a test manager to manage and coordinate test activities at the LTS value stream level.
• This is an exciting opportunity to influence the test strategy including leading on automation strategy to deliver value stream efficiency.

About the Role

• Define and own the test strategy for the value stream.
• Accountable for ensuring test governance in line with the defined strategy for all change initiatives under the value stream.
• Manage third party test teams and testers at a value stream level, ensuring clear allocation of responsibilities and alignment with delivery timelines.
• Collaborate and build trusting relationships with engineering leads, change managers, and other key stakeholders.
• Provide holistic reporting on testing, risks, and issues within the value stream to senior stakeholders.
• Champion continuous improvement in testing practices, tools, and automation, using key test metrics to drive the improvements roadmap.
• Line management of value stream level test roles and oversight of third-party roles.

About You

You will have:

• Proven experience in test management across large-scale change initiatives, ideally including system migrations and major upgrades.
• a strong understanding of testing methodologies and highly skilled in the test discipline.
• Proven experience with test automation frameworks and tools.
• Proven experience of enhancing test capabilities and delivering strategic improvements.
• Detailed understanding of performance optimisation and ensuring security and compliance using Azure tools.
• Significant experience of managing test, in both a matrix management and direct fashion, including coaching and mentoring.

About Royal London

We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions, and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We're an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected - whatever their background.