EPS Engineering Test Manager
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
Job reference 328777
EPS Engineering Test Manager
Competitive salary plus £5,500 car allowance, healthcare, 18% annual bonus potential,25 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising with service and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Permanent, Full time
Royal Mail FarringdonAbout the roleAt Royal Mail we’ve served our communities for over 500 years, helping to lead and transform the postal delivery market on a global scale. We’re currently busy innovating and transforming our business for the future, and to get there, we need exceptionally talented, resilient, and driven people.The Platform Engineering Manager – EPS is responsible for providing leadership over all aspects of testing and quality assurance for EPS platform programmes.
Leads with clarity and purpose, guiding teams to build resilient, secure, and scalable systems. Champions automation, testing, and continuous delivery as foundations of quality. Skilled at translating complex technical needs into clear strategies, fostering collaboration across disciplines. Values observability, adaptability, and thoughtful design in every layer of the stack.
You will act a single point of responsibility for solution testing within program/platform. This will involve assuring the overall technical solution comprising of multiple projects and a mix of internal and supplier driven testing. Whilst leading resource planning, budgeting, and recruitment of test resources for a single programme. The successful individual will be able to manage complex, large scale programme test requirements, covering both Waterfall and Agile projects.Reporting into the Platform Test Manager - This is a hybrid working role with a requirement to attend our Head Office in Farringdon, London for 3 days per weekTeam size - 0 – 30+ and will be responsible for permanent and/or flex resourcesThe successful candidate for this role will join us at arguably the most exciting time in our history. If you have firsthand experience being comfortable designing systems that respond to events in real time at scale, with a strong grasp of testing, automation, and deployment best practices. Values reliability, security, and clear communication between services. Experienced in using infrastructure-as-code and building with resilience and observability in mind. This is an opportunity you don’t want to miss.Key Accountabilities
- Testing Leadership & Execution
- Test Strategy & Design
- Resourcing & Budgeting
- Supplier & Stakeholder Management
- Tool and Automation Selection
- Architectural Engagement & Coverage
- Quality Ownership
- Release Readiness
- Program Test planning, management, and execution
- Evaluate test resource management, including budgeting and recruitment
- Supplier management, including management of third-party test resources and management
- Supplier work package negotiation, including assurance / oversight of testing undertaken by RMG suppliers
- Strong problem solving and the ability to lead on resolving programme test planning and execution issues
- Technically competent with cloud native solution, web server / services, middleware technology, and APIs and database technologies
- Strong analytical skills, preferably developed as part of any performance engineering orientated background
- Experience of working with collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence, Microsoft Azure/GCP
- Agile training/qualifications or experience incl. Scrum & Kanban
- Programme Test Management in large scale programme environments with multiple projects and vendors
- Programme level leadership on Quality Assurance in hybrid environments comprising of internal and supplier engineering teams.
- Resource and budget planning and management for test resources within programmes up to £Xm
- Working within a matrix management structure, leading on balancing programme level demands with alignment to the overall RMG Test Strategy and platform teams
- Firsthand experience comfortable designing systems that respond to events in real time at scale, with a strong grasp of testing, automation, and deployment best practices. Values reliability, security, and clear communication between services. Experienced in using infrastructure-as-code and building with resilience and observability in mind
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- ISTQB/ISEB certification advantageous
- Certified Agile Tester (CAT) preferred
- Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
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- Supportive and generous company sick pay
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