Test Manager

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Company Description

Legal & General supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses.

Our Retail division helps people enjoy a more colourful retirement, both directly and through their employers, including Lifetime Mortgages, Retirement Interest Only Mortgages and financial advice on our range of lending products.

We are the UK's number one individual life insurer, and also provide Group Protection products for employers - all helping people to plan for the unexpected. We support home buying through our Mortgage Club - the UK's largest - and our award-winning Surveying Services team. And our fintech team finds and supports socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas.

Joining us means helping create brighter financial futures for all our customers.

Job Description

Legal and General's Retail Test Team are hiring for a new Test Manager to join the team and help deliver against projects in the annuities and workplace spaces, before assuming responsibilities as a line manager to guide a small team through project planning and delivery.

This role will see you working across several domains such as cloud, applications, mobile apps and desktop across the workplace portfolio taking ownership for the planning, strategy, stakeholder management and risk management of the projects.

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What you'll be doing:

• Taking accountability for leading and managing testing in a product or project development team using different techniques and tools and overall accountability of all Test phases - FT, SIT, UAT, PAT, PEN/NFT, ensuring target dates are planned and tracked
• Leading and providing effective communication to your team, the Head of Test and other senior stakeholders to ensure effective decision making and integration
• Coordinating manual and automated testing with other test teams and interested parties to help ensure the successful delivery of work into different governance and delivery models
• Providing line-management, professional guidance, plan, and coordinate development and coaching for a team of 1-5 QA Team members and managing the team in accordance with the Company's policies and procedures
• Ensuring an understanding of the principles of Business Transformation and translating these principles into business/people change activities and project outcomes
• Taking responsibility for managing third party relationships ensuring that dependencies are identified and managed and deliverables are achieved, as defined in the project's Test Approach and without incurring unnecessary cost or delay to the project while implementing efficiencies or procedural change as required to the benefit of service

Qualifications

Who we're looking for:

• An expert understanding of software testing, why it's important, and how it fits into the software development process is essential
• An understanding of software development processes and frameworks is essential
• A strong understanding of how we can improve software quality before we start testing is essential
• An understanding of test automation techniques and tools is essential
• An understanding of the different drivers and needs of customers, distributors and partners is desirable
• A wider interest in technology and how it can be used is desirable
• Experience in leading test across multiple Development methodologies (V-Model, Agile, SAFe, Waterfall)
• Experience using Test Management tools to manage test execution and reporting specifically JIRA and XRay plugins
• Previous team leadership, coaching or people management experience is desirable

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years' service. There's also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice
• There are the many discounts we offer - both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Additional Information

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain's Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers' money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you'll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you're open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.

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