Norwich SENIOR PROGRAM TEST MANAGER GBR

Job Description

Your Responsibilities

As the Senior Program Test Manager – Wealth & Retirement Platforms, you will:

• Define and lead test strategy, governance, release assurance and quality standards across Wealth & Retirement platform programmes.
• Influence product roadmap, architecture and solution design decisions to improve quality, testability, operational resilience and release readiness.
• Orchestrate complex dependencies across platform vendors, business stakeholders, release teams, environment teams and third-party suppliers.
• Drive quality transformation through automation, CI/CD quality gates, risk-based testing and productivity improvements.
• Provide executive-level reporting on delivery progress, release risks, defect trends, dependency management and quality outcomes.

Mandatory Skills

You will have a strong understanding of:

• Wealth & Retirement platforms, pensions, workplace savings, investment products and adviser-led wealth services.
• Test strategy, functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, UAT support and release assurance.
• Quality governance, defect management, test data strategy, environment readiness and risk-based testing.
• Stakeholder management across executives, delivery teams, suppliers and business partners.
• Automation strategy, API testing, CI/CD pipelines and quality engineering best practices.

Desirable Skills

Ideally, you will be familiar with:

• FNZ or comparable wealth platform ecosystems.
• Platform migrations, large-scale transformation programmes and release management.
• Architecture review, integration design, data flows, APIs, batch processing and operational controls.
• GenAI-enabled testing accelerators and quality transformation initiatives.
• Regulated financial services environments with strong audit, compliance and governance requirements.