Test Manager

Location: This is a Hybrid role. Whiteley, Hampshire

Clearance Required: This role will require attainment and maintenance of SC clearance

We're looking for a collaborative and forward-thinking Test Manager to join our team and play a key role in delivering a critical IT application and infrastructure solution.

Working alongside customers, technical specialists, and international delivery teams, you'll lead the testing and acceptance strategy across the project lifecycle. You'll be responsible for ensuring quality outcomes, managing risks, and driving successful delivery against project milestones and customer expectations.

This role would suit someone who is passionate about quality assurance, enjoys solving complex challenges, and thrives in environments where collaboration and continuous improvement are valued. Whether your background is in systems integration, software delivery, or large-scale transformation programmes, we'd love to hear how your experience can help shape our success.

What You'll Be Doing

As a Test Manager, you will:

• Lead the overall test and acceptance strategy across the programme.
• Manage integration, testing, and acceptance activities throughout project delivery.
• Develop and implement scalable test approaches, including automated and manual testing solutions.
• Create and maintain test plans, test designs, procedures, and supporting documentation.
• Ensure business and technical requirements are fully covered through effective testing.
• Identify and manage testing risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and opportunities.
• Work closely with customers, suppliers, and delivery teams to provide test assurance and quality oversight.
• Collaborate with Software Developers and Data Engineers to understand system functionality and improve test coverage.
• Manage the defect lifecycle, including investigation, prioritisation, reporting, and trend analysis.
• Produce clear test reports and acceptance evidence.
• Support and mentor other testers, helping to develop capability across the team.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What We're Looking For

We're interested in people who can demonstrate many of the following:

• Experience leading test activities within complex technology, transformation, or systems integration programmes.
• Strong understanding of the software testing lifecycle and a range of test methodologies.
• Experience with both manual and automated testing appr
• Coaches, including functional, non-functional, integration, and acceptance testing.
• Experience testing integrated solutions involving third-party systems, applications, databases, and data platforms.
• Ability to engage and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels to understand objectives and drive successful outcomes.
• Experience taking ownership of testing delivery and quality assurance activities.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex concepts clearly.
• An analytical and proactive approach to problem solving.
• Commitment to continuous improvement and sharing knowledge with others.

Relevant certifications, such as ISTQB, are welcomed but not essential.

It Would Be Great If You Also Have

• Experience working on complex integration or transformation programmes with significant data requirements.
• Experience leading, coaching, or managing small teams.
• Knowledge of Air Traffic Management (ATM) environments or related domains.
• Experience implementing modern testing practices, tools, and automation frameworks.
• Familiarity with cloud-based or modern digital platforms.

What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme and much more!)
• Flexi-Time Working

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.
 

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & Europe – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world.  You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team.  We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years.  Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.          

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

Pay Range:

£61,500.00-£78,800.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.