End to End Test Lead (with Retail Banking)

The End-to-End (E2E) Test Lead is responsible for leading testing activities across complex banking programs, ensuring high-quality delivery through effective test planning, execution, automation, defect management, and stakeholder collaboration. The role drives testing strategy, risk management, and continuous improvement while leading testing teams across multiple applications and platforms.

Hybrid working :

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your Role:

• Define and manage end-to-end test strategy, scope, and plans.
• Lead test execution, defect management, and reporting across projects.
• Drive test automation adoption, framework improvements, and tool selection.
• Manage test environments, test data, and integration dependencies.
• Conduct risk assessments and ensure adequate test coverage.
• Collaborate with business, development, architecture, and delivery teams.
• Monitor testing progress, identify risks, and escalate issues proactively.
• Mentor and support test analysts and junior team members.
• Ensure compliance with quality standards, regulatory requirements, and internal controls.

• Strong experience leading E2E testing for large-scale banking or financial services programs.
• Expertise in test planning, execution, automation, and defect management.
• Good knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and DevOps delivery models.
• Experience with tools such as JIRA, HP ALM/Quality Center, Selenium, Jenkins, and API testing tools.
• Understanding of system integration, middleware, data testing, and mainframe/open systems environments.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.

Domain Knowledge

Experience in Retail/Personal Banking, including:

• Payments and Cards
• Savings and Insurance Products
• Customer & Risk Systems
• General Ledger and Accounting
• Online and Mobile Banking

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

• You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard Manage Mentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion. Make it real | www.capgemini.com .