Technical Test Manager

About the job you're considering

We work closely with clients and partners to take full advantage of the opportunities of technology. We mobilize expert teams that create custom solutions from existing and emerging technology to deliver viable outcomes at speed. We call this 'Value in the making.' Part of the Capgemini Group, Sogeti makes business value through technology for organizations that need to implement innovation at speed and want a local partner with global scale. With a hands-on culture and close proximity to its clients, Sogeti is currently looking for a Test Manager to join our Quality Engineering and Test Practice, ensuring alignment with business goals and driving impactful value creation for our clients.

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.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)

Your role

• Manage and oversee test strategy, planning, governance, and delivery across multiple projects, programmes, or portfolios.

• Establish and drive the overall quality assurance and testing approach, ensuring alignment with business objectives and delivery outcomes.

• Define testing standards, frameworks, controls, and governance processes to ensure consistency and quality across delivery teams.

• Establish and maintain quality metrics, reporting frameworks, and executive-level dashboards to support informed decision-making.

• Provide leadership and direction to Test Leads, Test Analysts, and Quality Engineering teams, fostering a high-performance culture.

• Accountable for end-to-end test delivery, including functional, integration, system, regression, performance, security, and user acceptance testing.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, including automation adoption, AI-enabled testing, process optimisation, and quality engineering transformation.

• Establish and implement automation, where appropriate, across the delivery lifecycle

• Manage programme-level test risks, issues, dependencies, and defect governance, providing clear visibility to senior stakeholders.

• Collaborate with programme managers, architects, product owners, business analysts, and delivery leaders to embed quality throughout the SDLC.

• Act as the senior testing authority, influencing stakeholders and providing assurance on delivery readiness and quality outcomes.

• Own test budgets, resource planning, forecasting, and vendor management where applicable.

Your skills and experience

• Extensive experience managing testing and quality assurance across large-scale, complex programmes and enterprise-wide initiatives.

• Proven track record of leading distributed testing teams, Test Leads, suppliers, and third-party vendors.

• Strong experience in test governance, quality management, risk control, and executive stakeholder reporting.

• Expertise delivering across functional and non-functional testing disciplines at scale, including functional automation, performance, security, accessibility, and resilience testing.

• Experience defining enterprise test strategies, operating models, standards, and quality frameworks, including automation and AI.

• Strong commercial awareness with experience in resource management, estimation, capacity planning, and budget oversight.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leadership and delivery teams.

• Deep understanding of Agile, SAFe, DevOps, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies.

• Experience with test management and defect tracking tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, ALM, or equivalent platforms.

• Experience leveraging Generative AI and Agentic AI technologies to improve test design, execution, and quality engineering outcomes.

We are a Disability Confident Employer:

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.

Please opt in during the application process.

What does 'Get The Future You Want' mean for you?

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 Management or, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

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 diverse 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 a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.