
Test Manager
- London
- £350 per day
- Permanent
- Part-time
📅 Contract: 6 months (initial)
💷 Rate: £350/day (Outside IR35)🔍 What You'll Be Doing:
- Own and manage the field testing programme across routes, devices, and user behaviours
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to define and execute test cycles (pre-release, regression, rollout validation)
- Continuously improve test plans, tooling, and workflows
- Coordinate a distributed team of ~6 part-time testers, scaling as needed
- Triage and escalate issues, managing the defect lifecycle through to resolution
- Communicate progress, risks, and issues to stakeholders
- Champion a quality-first mindset and advocate for the end-user experience
- Proven experience as a QA/Test Manager, ideally with mobile app testing in live environments
- Strong grasp of testing methodologies and tools (ISTQB or similar certification a plus)
- Ability to balance hands-on testing with coordination and reporting
- Excellent communication and organisational skills
- Calm under pressure with a pragmatic, delivery-focused approach
- Experience with location-based services, transport, or mobility products is a bonus