Testing Manager
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Role: NFT Manager
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Nottingham
Number of hours: 40 hours per week – full time
Ready to utilise your experience in Non‑Functional Testing?
We have an exciting opportunity for you – Non‑Functional Testing (NFT) Manager!
Careers at TCS: It means more
TCS is a purpose-led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve - our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects which demand ambitious innovation and thought leadership.
- Collaborate and contribute within a dynamic, high‑performing team environment.
- Tackle complex challenges with a proactive and solution‑focused mindset.
- Deliver excellence and measurable impact across critical transformation initiatives.
The Role
As a Non‑Functional Testing (NFT) Manager, you will be responsible for defining, leading, and governing the non‑functional testing strategy across complex enterprise programmes. We are looking for an experienced professional to manage performance, security, resilience, accessibility, and operational acceptance testing across multiple initiatives. You will work closely with project leadership, architecture, engineering, and delivery teams to ensure non‑functional requirements (NFRs) are clearly defined, planned, tested, and met. The role includes ownership of NFR test frameworks, tooling, reporting, and capability uplift, ensuring solutions meet enterprise quality, reliability, and scalability standards.
Key responsibilities:
- Define and own the overall non‑functional testing strategy, frameworks, standards, and best practices.
- Partner with Project Managers, Portfolio Leads, and senior stakeholders to plan, estimate, track, and manage NFR testing timelines, scope, and budgets.
- Lead performance, load, stress, volume, security, accessibility, and failover testing across programmes.
- Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to identify non‑functional requirements and translate them into measurable test criteria.
- Manage end‑to‑end NFR testing activities, including planning, environment readiness, data preparation, tool selection, and execution.
- Analyse test results to identify bottlenecks, provide tuning recommendations, and drive timely issue resolution.
- Establish monitoring and observability practices using APM tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, and Grafana.
- Produce high‑quality test reports, dashboards, and release readiness assessments for leadership and governance forums.
- Lead, coach, and mentor the non‑functional testing team, ensuring capability uplift and alignment to enterprise QA standards.
Your Profile
Essential skills/knowledge/experience:
- Strong professional experience within QA, performance engineering, or non‑functional testing leadership roles.
- Proven experience managing non‑functional and performance testing in complex enterprise environments with onshore–offshore delivery models.
- Strong expertise in performance testing tools such as JMeter, NeoLoad, and LoadRunner.
- Deep understanding of performance engineering concepts and performance architecture.
- Experience guiding teams through performance execution and producing detailed analysis reports.
- Proven ability to estimate QA scope, risk, effort, and budget on behalf of performance or NFR teams.
Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:
- Experience benchmarking performance results and identifying optimisation opportunities.
- Certifications such as ISTQB Advanced Test Manager, Performance Testing certifications, or equivalent.
- Experience working with microservices, APIs, and containerised platforms (Docker, Kubernetes).
Rewards & Benefits
TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.
We offer health & wellness initiatives and sports events; we are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon.
Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing
Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998.
We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer an interview to applicants with disabilities or long-term conditions who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Please email us at UKI.recruitment@tcs.com
If you are an applicant who needs any adjustments to the application process or interview, please contact us at UKI.recruitment@tcs.com with the subject line: “Adjustment Request” or call TCS London Office 02031552100 / +44 204 520 2575 to request an adjustment. We welcome requests prior to you completing the application and at any stage of the recruitment process.
Next Steps:
Application Process
- Online application: You can apply directly through LinkedIn/ by uploading your CV. In case you wish to submit your application via another format like audio/video, please, contact - UKI.recruitment@tcs.com
- Skill-Based discussion: This will be a level 1 interview with the project team, it can be via video or in-person. Details will be confirmed by your recruiter.
- Managerial discussion: This discussion will focus on behavioural aspects and person-organisation fit.
- HR Discussion: This will be with one of the members of the HR team and will cover your career journey, aspirations for growth, compensation and any other questions you may have.
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