Fruition Group
Test Lead
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Job Title: Test Lead
Location: Leeds/Hybrid (x2 days in office)
Salary: Competitive Salary
Responsibilities
- Lead the planning, coordination, execution, and reporting of testing across projects, programmes, and operational change
- Support the Test Manager in defining and improving test strategy, governance, standards, and QA processes
- Oversee SIT, UAT, regression, end-to-end, performance, and operational readiness testing, including OAT and non-functional testing
- Maintain an audit-ready testing framework aligned to regulatory, security, and compliance requirements
- Manage defect triage, prioritisation, tracking, and escalation
- Ensure test coverage across pensions administration systems, digital platforms, data migration, and regulatory reporting
- Coordinate internal teams and third-party testing suppliers, escalating risks and deviations
- Drive test automation, shift-left, and CI/CD integration
- Report clearly on progress, quality metrics, risks, and defects to stakeholders
- Mentor and develop the testing team
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Requirements
- Experience leading or coordinating testing in financial services - pensions, insurance, banking, or other regulated environments
- Strong background in test planning, defect management, risk assessment, and stakeholder engagement
- End-to-end testing experience across complex business and technology transformation programmes
- Hands-on with test management tools such as Jira, Zephyr, Azure DevOps, or TestRail
- Technical testing skills across API and integration testing, mobile testing, data validation and reconciliation, and performance and load testing
- Experience working with third-party testing suppliers
- Working knowledge of Agile, Scrum, DevOps, or hybrid delivery
- Exposure to test automation frameworks, CI/CD, SQL, and cloud environments (Azure or AWS)
- ISTQB Foundation (or equivalent)
- Desirable: UK pensions administration experience (DB, DC, or master trust), platform migration and data conversion, ISTQB Test Manager, PRINCE2/ITIL, or a pensions qualification
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