Test Lead

Working closely with the Test Manager, you will lead day-to-day testing activities across a range of projects, programmes and operational change initiatives. Your responsibilities will include:

• Planning, coordinating and reporting on testing activities across multiple initiatives.
• Supporting the development and continuous improvement of TPT’s testing strategy, governance and quality assurance framework.
• Coordinating testing phases including system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), regression, end-to-end, performance and operational readiness testing.
• Managing defect triage, prioritisation, escalation and resolution activities.
• Working with internal teams and third-party suppliers to ensure testing standards are consistently applied.
• Supporting major transformation initiatives including platform upgrades, cloud migration and process automation.
• Providing clear reporting on test progress, quality metrics, risks and issues to support effective decision-making.
• Contributing to the development of test automation capabilities and modern quality engineering practices.
• Helping to develop and support a collaborative, knowledge-sharing testing culture.

• Experience leading or coordinating testing within a regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies, quality assurance and test lifecycles.
• Experience with test planning, defect management and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience using tools such as Jira, Zephyr, Azure DevOps or TestRail.
• Technical testing experience including API, integration, data or non-functional testing.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills.
• ISTQB Foundation certification (or equivalent experience).

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys working across both technology and business change, leading testing activities while influencing stakeholders, improving processes and helping to build a modern, audit-ready testing capability. If this role interests you, apply today!

Competitive salary

Performance-related bonus

Pension scheme

Sports and social events

Training and development plan

Flu jabs

TPT Retirement Solutions (TPT) is one of the UK’s leading providers of workplace pensions with 80 years’ experience of managing defined benefit and defined contribution pension schemes. It has £11.4 billion of assets under management (as at 30 September 2025) and 490,000 members.

TPT’s mission is to make pension schemes perform better for everyone, from the sponsoring employers and trustees to the members who are saving for the future. They are an innovative, forward-thinking organisation, investing in technology to improve the services they provide. TPT are ultimately owned by a pension fund, providing genuine alignment of interests with those of their clients and scheme members.