Job Description

Lead Tester

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Role overview:

Own the ESCS test strategy and lead coordinated assurance across functional, integration, non-functional and user acceptance testing. The Lead Tester ensures that quality, traceability, environments, data and evidence are planned from the outset and integrated with delivery.

The role you will play:

• Set the risk-based test approach and quality controls across ESCS.
• Coordinate test teams, suppliers, environments, data and entry/exit criteria.
• Provide clear evidence of solution quality and readiness for acceptance.

Primary responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the test strategy, master test plan and assurance reporting.
• Define coverage across functional, integration, regression, performance, resilience, security and operational testing.
• Establish requirements-to-test traceability and quality gates.
• Lead test automation strategy and continuous testing integration.
• Coordinate test environments, test data, supplier evidence and defect management.
• Plan and support system integration testing and user acceptance testing.
• Report quality trends, risks, defects and readiness to programme governance.
• Coach test engineers and assure the consistency of test artefacts and evidence.

Required skills and capabilities:

• Test strategy and test management
• Risk-based testing and requirements traceability
• Systems integration and end-to-end testing
• Test automation strategy and continuous testing
• Performance and non-functional test governance
• Security testing governance and coordination
• Test environment and test data management
• Defect management, quality metrics and reporting
• Supplier test assurance and evidence review
• Leadership, planning and stakeholder communication

Required experience:

• Leadership of testing on large or complex systems integration delivery.
• Experience defining test strategies, plans, methods, entry/exit criteria and reporting.
• Experience coordinating multiple test phases, teams, suppliers and environments.
• Strong understanding of functional and non-functional testing.

Desired experience:

• Cloud and SaaS platform testing.
• DevSecOps quality gates and automated pipelines.
• Public sector or regulated delivery.
• ISTQB Advanced Test Manager or equivalent.

Clearance requirements:

• SC required to start
• SC required for the role

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Leidos UK! Join our team and discover a culture of collaboration, innovation, diversity, trust, caring management, communication transparency, work-life balance, and overall job satisfaction...

What we do for you:

At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
• Flexible Working Scheme

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & EUROPE – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

£73,700.00-£97,000.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.