Test Manager

HCLTech; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

HCLTech in the United Kingdom seeks a Test Manager to define and govern test strategy, tooling, and quality standards across delivery teams. The role demands extensive QA leadership and the ability to drive automation maturity independently.

You will own QA strategy, automation governance, release assurance and quality gates across delivery teams, partnering with product and engineering to ensure quality at every release.

Qualifications

• Extensive QA leadership across delivery teams.
• Experience defining test strategy and governance.
• Proven ability to drive automation maturity.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern the overall QA strategy and governance.
• Lead tooling selection and automation initiatives.
• Own release assurance and quality gates across delivery teams.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to ensure quality at every release.
• Provide clear QA metrics and stakeholder reporting.

Skills

Playwright

Jira

Selenium

Qase

Postman

REST API testing

Functional & Regression Testing

Test Planning

release assurance

release quality gates

Tools

CI/CD Test Integration

UAT

quality metrics reporting

Test team leadership

Quality metrics

Job description

A Test Manager to define and govern test strategy, tooling, and quality standards across delivery teams. The role requires extensive QA leadership experience and the ability to drive automation maturity independently and Own QA strategy, automation governance, release assurance and quality gates across delivery teams.

Primary Skills

• Playwright
• Jira
• Selenium
• Qase
• Postman
• REST API testing
• Functional & Regression Testing
• Test Planning
• release assurance
• release quality gates

Secondary Skills

• CI/CD Test Integration
• UAT
• quality metrics reporting;
• Test team leadership
• Quality metrics

Key Behavioral Requirements

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Confident presenting ideas, progress updates, and recommendations to senior stakeholders and leadership
• Good experience on Defect triage; Quality metrics and reporting; Stakeholder communication; Team coordination; AI Squad experience only when vacancy-specific
• Strong active listening skills and the ability to ask the right questions to clarify requirements and resolve ambiguity
• Able to work autonomously and take full end-to-end ownership of deliverables without requiring close supervision
• Proactive in identifying problems, proposing solutions, and driving them through to resolution independently
• Collaborative team player who shares knowledge, supports colleagues, and contributes to a positive team culture