Test Manager

Job Title: Test Manager

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Alderley Park

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 9th February 2026

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.

A Test Manager is required to manage and co-ordinate test activities across complex change deliveries, involving multiple teams and applications, in line with business priorities, technical roadmaps and broader strategic goals. To build and enhance test capabilities for the value stream, in relation to people, processes and technology, including recruitment, line management, test strategy and test automation.

About the Opportunity

• Modernising our technology is fundamental to realising our ambitions and achieving sustained competitive advantage. It will allow us to develop an innovative and leading proposition, achieve speed to market and ongoing pace of change, and maintain a competitive cost-to-develop and cost-to-serve.
• We are forming new testing capability in our Alderley Park office to deliver and maintain a new technology solution which will support our financial product offering.
• This is an exciting opportunity to be involved at the outset and shape the way the test team is set up for success.

About the Role

• Define and own the test strategy for the value stream.
• Accountable for ensuring test governance in line with the defined strategy for all programmes and projects under the value stream.
• Manage test teams (internal and/or third-party), ensuring clear allocation of responsibilities and alignment with delivery timelines.
• Collaborate and build trusting relationships with Technical Leads, Principal Engineers, Programme Managers, CIOs and other key stakeholders.
• Provide holistic reporting on testing, risks, and issues within the value stream programmes and projects to senior stakeholders.
• Champion continuous improvement in testing practices, tools, and automation, using key test metrics to drive the improvements roadmap.
• Recruitment and onboarding of test resources, including interim and permanent roles
• Line management of permanent roles and oversight of third-party roles.

About You

You will have:

• proven experience in test management across large-scale programmes, ideally including system migrations and major upgrades.
• a strong understanding of testing methodologies and highly skilled in the test discipline.
• proven experience with test automation frameworks and tools.
• proven experience of enhancing test capabilities and delivering strategic improvements.
• detailed understanding of performance optimisation and ensuring security and compliance using Azure tools.
• significant experience of recruiting and managing test teams, including coaching and mentoring.

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.