Test Manager

Capgemini; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident Employer Level 2

Hybrid working

Learning opportunities

Extensive training programs

Job summary

Capgemini is seeking a Test Manager to join our Quality Engineering and Test Practice in the UK. You will lead testing strategy, governance, and end-to-end delivery across multiple projects, aligning with business goals and driving value with a strong testing culture.

You will manage Test Leads, Test Analysts, and QA teams, foster a high-performance environment, and collaborate with stakeholders across Agile, DevOps, and hybrid delivery worlds.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience managing testing across large programmes.
• Experience leading distributed testing teams with vendors.
• Expertise in test governance, risk control, and reporting.
• Knowledge of functional and non-functional testing incl. performance, security, accessibility.
• Familiar with test strategies and enterprise standards.

Responsibilities

• Manage test strategy, planning, governance, and delivery across projects.
• Lead Test Leads and QA teams, drive quality assurance alignment.
• Oversee end-to-end test delivery including UAT, performance, security.
• Define testing standards, governance, and metrics.
• Drive automation and AI-enabled testing initiatives.

Skills

Test management

Quality assurance

Agile

DevOps

Stakeholder management

Education

ISTQB Test Manager

ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

ALM

Job description

About the job you're consideringWe work closely with clients and partners to take full advantage of the opportunities of technology. We mobilize expert teams that create custom solutions from existing and emerging technology to deliver viable outcomes at speed. We call this 'Value in the making.'Part of the Capgemini Group, Sogeti makes business value through technology for organizations that need to implement innovation at speed and want a local partner with global scale. With a hands-on culture and close proximity to its clients, Sogeti is currently looking for a Test Manager to join our Quality Engineering and Test Practice, ensuring alignment with business goals and driving impactful value creation for our clients.Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)Your roleManage and oversee test strategy, planning, governance, and delivery across multiple projects, programmes, or portfolios.Establish and drive the overall quality assurance and testing approach, ensuring alignment with business objectives and delivery outcomes.Provide leadership and direction to Test Leads, Test Analysts, and Quality Engineering teams, fostering a high-performance culture.Accountable for end-to-end test delivery, including functional, integration, system, regression, performance, security, and user acceptance testing.Define testing standards, frameworks, controls, and governance processes to ensure consistency and quality across delivery teams.Own test budgets, resource planning, forecasting, and vendor management where applicable.Manage programme-level test risks, issues, dependencies, and defect governance, providing clear visibility to senior stakeholders.Establish and maintain quality metrics, reporting frameworks, and executive-level dashboards to support informed decision-making.Drive continuous improvement initiatives, including automation adoption, AI-enabled testing, process optimisation, and quality engineering transformation.Collaborate with programme managers, architects, product owners, business analysts, and delivery leaders to embed quality throughout the SDLC.Act as the senior testing authority, influencing stakeholders and providing assurance on delivery readiness and quality outcomes.Champion best practices across Agile, DevOps, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery environments.Your skills and experienceExtensive experience managing testing and quality assurance across large-scale, complex programmes and enterprise-wide initiatives.Proven track record of leading distributed testing teams, Test Leads, suppliers, and third-party vendors.Strong experience in test governance, quality management, risk control, and executive stakeholder reporting.Expertise across functional and non-functional testing disciplines, including performance, security, accessibility, and resilience testing.Experience defining enterprise test strategies, operating models, standards, and quality frameworks.Strong commercial awareness with experience in resource management, estimation, capacity planning, and budget oversight.Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leadership and delivery teams.Deep understanding of Agile, SAFe, DevOps, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies.Experience with test management and defect tracking tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, ALM, or equivalent platforms.Good understanding of automation strategies and working with Quality Engineering and Automation teams at scale.Experience leveraging Generative AI and Agentic AI technologies to improve test design, execution, and quality engineering outcomes.ISTQB Test Manager, ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst, or equivalent testing certification desirable.We are a Disability Confident Employer:Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:Declare they have a disability, andMeet the minimum essential criteria for the role.Please opt in during the application process.What does 'Get The Future You Want' mean for you?You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard Management or, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.Why you should consider Capgemini:Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.About Capgemini:Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.