Test Lead

Job ref: 191473

TPR grade: TDD 7 - Lead Specialist

**About us**:
More than half the UK working population rely on The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to regulate their retirement savings. With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation that will impact on millions of lives for decades to come.

Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2 trillion of savings safe. We’re committed to bringing people into TPR who are ready to make a difference and put UK savers at the heart of what we do.

It is important to us that TPR remains a great place to work. We do all we can to help our people reach their full potential with learning, secondment, and development opportunities. We put our 900+ employees first, supporting flexible working and offer a diverse, lively, and inclusive environment. This includes our Disability Network, Family Network, LGBT+ Network (Proud), Minority Ethnic (ME) Network and Women’s Network, which offer spaces to connect.

Our new corporate strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the industry. We are at the start of that journey. Join us to find out what part you can play.

We operate a hybrid working model, with regular attendance in our Brighton office to connect with colleagues across the business.

**Role**:
Our Test Team works with our Agile teams to deliver positive outcomes on a range of projects and programmes for both the organisation, and saver, for years to come.

**Responsibilities**:
As a TPR Test Lead You will:

- support the delivery of excellent outcomes for Change and IT delivery
- actively participate in process improvement with regards to the functional and/or non-functional testing frameworks within TPR
- build End to End testing scenarios (manual and/or automated) to support Change and BAU
- supervise the building of robust regression packs (manual and/or automated) to support BAU releases
- focus on the quality delivery for product releases and report effectively on behalf of the deployed testers
- supporting line management and other management processes as delegated by the Test Manager

**Essential and desirable criteria**:
**Essential skills**:

- Demonstrable experience of testing techniques, standards, methodologies and best practice gained in a software development or testing environment including trouble shooting issues and help identifying the root cause.
- Working knowledge and experience of the end-to-end software testing process (from identifying test scenarios, to writing tests and raising defects).
- Good working knowledge of test management tools, for example, Test Rail, HPALM, Microsoft Test Manager.
- Ability to mentor test analysts on the team using their enhanced skills helping to identify relevant quality related training needs and assisting in delivering training.
- Lead a team working within a project or work stream, assisting within work streams t implement project improvement plans.
- Ability to work collaboratively with others to achieve the TPR goals set out in the TPR Test Strategy.
- Ability to co-ordinate testing supporting live incidents and the resolution of live issues and communicate at all levels for reporting and for critical issues / risks in a timely manner.

**Desirable skills**:

- ISTQB/ISEB Foundation Certificate or similar related work experience
- Experience with Microsoft Technology Stack and associated tools i.e., Azure Dev Ops.
- Working experience of testing methodologies including waterfall and Agile Scrum/Kanban

**Person specification**:

- Highly organised with good time management.
- Ability to prioritise and use initiative.
- Problem solving and analytical skills.
- Communication skills at all levels.
- Attention to detail and accuracy.
- Leadership skills.

**Salary and benefits**:
As well as a salary between £55,504 and £70,922, we offer:

- Civil Service Pension arrangements, which are recognised as some of the best in the pensions world
- discretionary bonus arrangements
- access to performance related pay progression
- 25 days annual leave provision
- flexible working arrangements
- development opportunities
- enhanced parental leave arrangements
- a free employee assistance programme
- an excellent office location in Brighton

**How to apply**:

- a covering letter with details of how your skills and experience meet the role requirements
- a copy of your CV
- details of your notice period

Applications will be considered on a part time and job share basis.

The Pensions Regulator is an arm’s length government body and part of the public service.