Job Title: Test Lead
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Edge, South Manchester
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing Date: 19th August 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 Group’s 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. These roles form part of the Long Term Savings value stream.
We are seeking a Test Lead to join our dynamic team at Royal London. The Test Lead at Royal London supervises and manages system and acceptance testing within specialised teams or Agile squads. They ensure the integrity of testing activities, provide expert guidance, and define the test strategy. This role involves training, mentoring, and upskilling on all test processes, managing client relationships, and contributing to corporate testing standards. The position supports Royal London’s mission to enhance the mutual choice for customers.
You will be given the opportunity to grow your career within a team focussed on promoting internal career progression. This role is focussed on our exciting new Pensions platform and contributes to our purpose of strengthening the mutual choice for our customers, by providing the best technology solutions to our customers.
About The Role
- Oversee and manage testing activities, including planning and execution.
- Ensure validation and verification early in the life cycle.
- Coordinate all activities during each testing phase.
- Investigate and recommend alternatives for testing processes, implementing improvements.
- Document and manage testing-related risks.
- Provide expert advice on test planning and execution.
- Organise and lead meetings and workshops with clients.
- Develop and implement automated testing strategies.
- Mentor Test Analysts and promote automation and other testing methods.
- Collaborate with non-functional performance and security testers.
- Define roles for new team members and organise their training and development as needed.
About You
- Understand the needs, objectives, and constraints of other disciplines and functions.
- Organise and document techniques and methods for structured development, adopting a Devops approach.
- Proficient in collecting, analysing, and applying historical test measurements and future estimations.
- Skilled in managing the testing process and executing tests throughout development projects.
- Proficient in assessing and managing business risks.
- Expert in standards, practices, and certification programs related to testing.
- Drive positive change within the test services community.
- Experience with applications, processes, or products that benefit the test team.
- Specialist knowledge in one or more functions, technologies, or automation tools.
- Experience in creating and delivering effective learning and development strategies, including using modern online resources.
About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits
Inclusion, diversity and belonging. We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.
