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.
Location - Nottingham, UK (Hybrid)
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.
• Strong skills in identifying memory leaks, CPU issues, and performance degradation, and
collaborating with engineering teams on remediation.
• In-depth knowledge of APM, monitoring tools, bottleneck analysis, and distributed system
performance.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
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).