About the Role
We’re looking for a talented and motivated Testing Team Leader to support the delivery of high-quality digital products across our agile teams.
In this role, you’ll lead and support a small team of testers, providing day-to-day leadership, coaching and line management, while remaining close to hands-on testing activity within your product area. Working closely with Product Owners, Developers and Delivery Managers, you’ll help ensure structured, risk-based testing that supports sprint commitments and product goals.
If you’re passionate about quality, enjoy developing people, and thrive in a collaborative agile environment, we’d love to hear from you.
1. Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching and support to a small team of testers
2. Conduct 1:1s, set objectives and carry out performance reviews
3. Build team capability through mentoring, knowledge sharing and skills development
4. Support team wellbeing and effective workload management
5. Plan and lead testing activities within agile teams
6. Ensure test approaches are risk-based and aligned to product priorities
7. Oversee functional, regression and exploratory testing
8. Support the use of automation where appropriate
9. Ensure defects are clearly logged, managed and resolved efficiently
10. Work closely with Product Owners and Delivery Managers to align testing with sprint goals
11. Participate in backlog refinement, estimation, sprint planning and team ceremonies
12. Help teams understand acceptance criteria and quality expectations
13. Promote consistent testing practices across teams
14. Identify opportunities to improve testing processes, tools and techniques
15. Maintain and enhance test documentation and reusable assets
16. Champion a culture of quality, collaboration and proactive problem solving
Key Criteria:
17. Experience working as a Tester or Senior Tester within agile delivery teams
18. Experience coordinating testing across multiple workstreams
19. Strong understanding of testing practices
20. Experience with test management and defect tracking tools (e.g. Azure DevOps, Jira)
21. Ability to balance hands-on testing with team leadership responsibilities
22. Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
23. Good standard of education including Maths and English, and a degree (or equivalent practical experience) in a relevant field
Desirable
24. Experience line managing or mentoring testers
25. Knowledge of risk-based testing, exploratory testing or structured test design
26. Exposure to test automation tools or frameworks