Test Manager (Financial Services)

Location: Hybrid role based in London, Greater London, England

Salary: £75k–£85k per year

Company

Private Markets investment organisation operating in the Financial Services sector and delivering a broad portfolio of technology transformation initiatives.

What you will do

• Own and coordinate testing across multiple transformation programmes and development squads.
• Define test strategies, plans, quality gates, entry and exit criteria, and release-readiness reporting.
• Lead SIT, integration, regression, UAT, and end-to-end testing across complex business and technology environments.
• Coordinate testing with development teams, business users, third-party vendors, and external suppliers.
• Manage defects, risks, dependencies, test environments, and Go/No-Go readiness.
• Drive testing best practices while remaining hands-on with automation, technical testing, investigation, CI/CD, and AI tooling.

Requirements

• Significant Test Manager or Test Lead experience in Asset Management, Investment Management, Wealth Management, or a closely related Financial Services environment.
• Strong experience leading testing across complex transformation or platform implementation programmes.
• Hands-on C# experience is essential, through test automation, software development, or maintenance of technical testing frameworks.
• Strong understanding of Azure services, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Recent experience with test automation frameworks and the ability to remain technically hands-on.
• Experience with SIT, integration, UAT, regression, defect management, quality gates, and release governance.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across engineering, product, business, and third-party teams.

Nice to have

• Exposure to Investment Management platforms such as Aladdin, Charles River, SimCorp, eFront, DealCloud, ThinkFolio, or similar.
• Practical experience using AI tools such as Copilot, ChatGPT, or Claude to improve testing efficiency.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent position within the Technology function of a global Private Markets investment organisation.
• Work closely with the Head of QA, Application Engineering, delivery teams, business users, and external suppliers.
• Approximately 75% test leadership and coordination and 25% hands-on technical testing.
• Hybrid working arrangement based in London.