Tenth Revolution Group is working with a major public sector organisation that is looking for an experienced Test and Assurance Manager to lead its testing strategy across Microsoft Power Platform and a wider estate of integrated digital and data systems.
This is a senior, hands-on leadership role for someone who can define the organisation’s testing strategy, manage and develop a testing team, and provide technical quality assurance across complex programmes of work.
The current environment involves a significant amount of manual testing across numerous business-critical systems and third-party integrations. A key priority will be introducing a more automated, scalable and risk-based approach while maintaining the rigorous standards expected within a regulated public sector environment.
Key responsibilities
- Define and own the testing and quality assurance strategy across Microsoft Power Platform and integrated digital services.
- Lead and develop the testing team, overseeing workloads, performance, priorities and capability.
- Review and quality assure testing activity completed by internal teams and external delivery partners.
- Oversee functional, integration, user acceptance, regression, performance and other non-functional testing.
- Introduce modern testing practices, including automation-first, shift-left and risk-based approaches.
- Build reusable automation frameworks, regression packs and test assets.
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and wider application lifecycle management processes.
- Lead assurance across complex integrations, including APIs, data flows, security models, payment services and end-to-end business processes.
- Manage defects, testing risks, quality gates and release-readiness reporting.
- Provide clear recommendations to support go/no-go decisions.
- Ensure testing remains compliant with regulatory, security and data protection requirements.
- Manage quality standards across outsourced and multi-supplier delivery environments.
What we are looking for
- Significant experience leading testing across complex enterprise programmes and projects.
- Previous responsibility for defining and delivering an organisation-wide testing or quality assurance strategy.
- Strong experience managing and developing testers, including resource planning, mentoring and performance support.
- The technical knowledge required to review and quality assure the work produced by a testing team.
- Experience of both manual and automated testing, with evidence of improving automation capability.
- Strong knowledge of functional and non-functional testing, test planning, defect management and quality assurance.
- Experience testing complex systems involving multiple applications, integrations, APIs and data flows.
- Experience working with Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery methods.
- Knowledge of test management, automation and performance‑testing tools.
- Experience managing test environments and coordinating testing across multiple workstreams.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to communicate risks and influence senior decision-makers.
- Experience within a regulated, public sector or similarly complex enterprise environment would be highly beneficial.
- Microsoft Power Platform testing experience would be advantageous.
Salary and working arrangements
The role offers a salary of £55k – £65k depending on experience.
This is a hybrid position based in London, with an expectation of approximately one to two days per week in the office. Some flexibility may be available for exceptional candidates.
- 30 days’ annual leave.
- Employer pension contribution starting at 8%, increasing to as much as 14% with optional employee contributions.
- Life insurance worth four times your annual salary.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave.
- 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme.
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Subsidised restaurant at the London office.
- Season ticket loans.
This is an excellent opportunity to shape testing strategy and lead the transition from a heavily manual environment towards a modern, automated and quality‑first testing capability.
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