Test Manager

Job Title: Test Manager

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Edinburgh

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date:16th October 2025

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 Groups 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

Were the UKs largest mutual life pensions and investment company offering protection long-term savings and asset management products and services.