Senior Test Consultant

Bright Purple Resourcing Ltd; Cape Town; Remote; ZAR 1,583,000 - 2,154,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Purple Resourcing Ltd is seeking a Senior Test Consultant to influence quality across client programmes. This remote UK role includes 1-2 days per month in the Leeds office and a high-visibility leadership position with senior stakeholders.

You will lead testing across portfolios, run workshops, shape test strategy and oversee end-to-end testing with multiple teams. A strong consultancy background and experience managing managers are essential.

Qualifications

• Strong background in software testing, with progression to Test Manager/Programme Test Manager or above.
• Proven consultancy experience and ability to diagnose problems, present options and influence decisions.
• Excellent stakeholder management and senior-level trust-building.

Responsibilities

• Act as the go-to senior testing contact for client and supplier stakeholders, giving clear, honest advice on quality, risk and release readiness.
• Run discovery sessions, quality assessments and workshops, turning findings into practical, costed improvement roadmaps.
• Shape test strategy and quality standards across portfolios and ensure consistent application.

Skills

Senior testing leadership

Stakeholder management

Consultancy experience

Problem solving

Team development

Test strategy

Budget and scope awareness

Tools

Test automation

NFT testing

Test environments

Job description

Senior Test Consultant - Remote UK

Have you led testing across large, complex programmes and now want broader influence?

Our client is a respected software testing and quality engineering consultancy. They're looking for a Senior Solutions Consultant to become the trusted senior voice on quality for their key client accounts.

This senior role mixes hands-on consultancy, senior stakeholder engagement and leadership. You'll look across several programmes, and sometimes several clients, so you can see the bigger picture, spot problems before they escalation and help organisations release with confidence.

What is in it for you:

• Salary up to £85,000
• UK Remote working with 1-2 days a month into the Leeds office
• Brilliant company benefits
• A high-visibility senior role with real influence over client outcomes
• Varied, challenging work across different clients and industries
• A supportive leadership team that invests in its people

What you'll be doing

• Acting as the go-to senior testing contact for client and supplier stakeholders, giving clear, honest advice on quality, risk and release readiness
• Running discovery sessions, quality assessments and workshops, then turning what you find into practical, costed improvement roadmaps
• Shaping test strategy and quality standards across portfolios, and making sure they're applied consistently and sensibly
• Overseeing end-to-end and integration testing across multiple systems and suppliers, working closely with automation, performance and environment specialists
• Handling escalations calmly, agreeing recovery plans and seeing them through to resolution
• Leading and developing a team of Programme and Test Managers, helping them grow as delivery leaders and as people managers
• Defining meaningful quality and delivery measures, and using the data to tell a clear story to clients and senior leadership
• Keeping an eye on scope, budget and margin, and working with account teams to shape proposals and manage changes

What we're looking for

• A strong background in software testing, having progressed to Test Manager or Programme Test Manager level or above
• Proven consultancy experience and comfortable diagnosing problems, presenting options and influencing decisions
• Excellent stakeholder management, with the confidence to challenge constructively and build trust at senior level
• Experience overseeing testing across several programmes, workstreams or suppliers at the same time
• Broad technical understanding of test automation, non-functional testing (NFT), test environments and data, enough to ask the right questions and spot weak evidence
• Experience line-managing other managers or senior team members
• Good commercial awareness, including how resourcing, scope and delivery choices affect cost and profitability

Bright Purple is an equal opportunities employer: we are proud to work with clients who share our values of diversity and inclusion in our industry.