Testing Lead

Testing Lead If you'd like to be considered for this opportunity, we encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment as if applications are high the role will close before the closing date. Berkshire Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight.

We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application. Let us introduce the role To lead and oversee testing across digital and data delivery initiatives, embedding quality assurance practices throughout the delivery lifecycle.

The Testing Lead is responsible for defining and maintaining enterprise-wide testing standards, managing the testing team, and ensuring that all digital solutions meet quality, security, and performance expectations prior to deployment.

Key Accountabilities Standards and Policies: Accountable for owning and developing the enterprise testing strategy, standards, and frameworks, ensuring alignment with delivery and design governance. Testing Strategy and Governance: Define, own, and continuously improve the enterprise testing strategy, frameworks, and standards, ensuring alignment with delivery governance and architectural principles.

Quality Assurance Leadership: Ensure testing activities across all programmes and projects meet defined quality, coverage, and assurance standards, including functional and non-functional testing. Team Leadership and Capability Development: Ensure the right skills, tools, and resources are in place to support delivery at scale.

End-to-End Test Lifecycle Management: Oversee all phases of the test lifecycle-planning, execution, defect management, and reporting-across multiple concurrent initiatives. Operational Readiness and Risk Mitigation: Ensure testing contributes to secure, reliable, and fit-for-purpose solutions, supporting business readiness and minimising go-live risks.

Compliance and Audit Readiness: Ensure testing practices comply with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and audit standards. Key Responsibilities Define and maintain testing policies, frameworks, test plans, and quality metrics.

Support delivery teams in developing robust test strategies, including unit, system, integration, UAT, regression, performance, and security testing. Champion modern testing practices such as test automation, continuous testing, and integration into CI/CD pipelines.

Review and assure the quality of test artefacts including test cases, scripts, traceability matrices, and defect reports. Promote early testing engagement and embed 'shift-left' practices across the delivery lifecycle. Evaluate and implement testing tools and environments t...

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