The IT Test Manager is accountable for end-to-end functional test leadership across products and projects, ensuring quality is embedded throughout delivery.
You will plan, direct, and execute testing activities, lead QA/Test resources, and partner closely with Product Owners, Delivery Leads, Business Analysts, Developers, Architects, Support, and third parties to deliver high-quality releases.
This role also includes a hands-on element: demonstrating effective testing practices, improving throughput, promoting reuse of test artefacts, and driving continuous improvement of QA and testing processes.
Key Skills for This Role
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Job Details
Location: France or UK
English and French language skills
Reports to: Head of Quality and Test (and/or QA Lead – TBC)
Team: QA Analysts, Testers; coordination with remote/3rd-party QA teams Tooling: Tricentis qTest (test/defect management)
Role purpose
The IT Test Manager is accountable for end-to-end functional test leadership across products and projects, ensuring quality is embedded throughout delivery. You will plan, direct, and execute testing activities, lead QA/Test resources, and partner closely with Product Owners, Delivery Leads, Business Analysts, Developers, Architects, Support, and third parties to deliver high-quality releases.
This role also includes a hands-on element: demonstrating effective testing practices, improving throughput, promoting reuse of test artefacts, and driving continuous improvement of QA and testing processes.
Key responsibilities
Test leadership and delivery
Own and lead functional test management for assigned products/projects/workstreams.
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Define test scope, approach, plans, and acceptance criteria alignment, ensuring requirements are testable.
Drive creation, review, and maintenance of test artefacts (test plans, scenarios, scripts, evidence).
Manage end-to-end test execution across teams (manual and automation aligned to standards).
Provide progress, coverage, and quality reporting, including release readiness input and metrics.
Quality governance and continuous improvement
Assure quality of QA/test artefacts and relevant development artefacts related to releases, fixes, integrations, and project deliverables.
Identify risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies; propose mitigation and escalate appropriately.
Contribute to and evolve QA processes, standards, frameworks, and ways of working; strengthen test efficiency and reusability.
Ensure adherence to defect management processes; drive effective triage, prioritisation, and remediation.
Test data, environments, and UAT
Coordinate test data planning, creation/curation, and test data activities across stakeholders.
Ensure data and configuration requirements are identified early (story refinement) and considered in CI/CD pipelines where applicable.
Lead UAT test management, including stakeholder engagement and coordination.
People and stakeholder management
Lead, coach, and mentor QA Analysts and Testers; identify training needs and drive capability uplift.
Manage capacity planning and allocation of internal, remote, and third-party QA resources.
Collaborate with Product, Delivery, Architecture, Development, and Support teams to embed quality throughout the lifecycle.
Key stakeholders
Project & Delivery Leads
Product Owners
Business Analysts
QA Analysts / Testing teams
Remote development QA team (3rd party)
Application Support teams
Release Manager / QA Leads / Head of Quality and Test (TBC)
Required experience and technical skills
Significant commercial experience leading QA and functional testing for enterprise systems.
Strong knowledge of testing methodologies, frameworks, and test management practices.
Proven experience with test/defect management tooling (qTest preferred).
Solid understanding of test data requirements and test environment management.
Practical experience with Agile and/or DevOps delivery approaches.
Good knowledge of CI/CD and functional testing methods.
Understanding of TDD/BDD concepts and techniques.
Advantageous experience
Automation and testing tools (e.g., Selenium, LoadRunner, Postman, Tricentis Tosca).
UI and accessibility testing.
SQL; Linux/Unix; Jenkins; Jira/Confluence.
Azure/AWS services; XML/JSON; working with large databases.
Knowledge of quality maturity models (e.g., TMMi), ISO 9000 series, and risk-based testing models.
Disaster recovery, high availability testing, backup/restore (where relevant to infrastructure-oriented initiatives).
Qualifications
ISTQB Foundation (minimum). Additional certifications beneficial.
Behavioural competencies
Self-starter with strong ownership and bias to action.
Excellent written and verbal communication; able to explain quality needs and outcomes to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Highly organised; able to plan, track, and report progress against commitments.
Strong analytical skills: translating requirements into test scenarios and scripts with attention to detail.
Proactive problem solver and sound decision-maker; able to present options and recommendations.
Influencer: able to challenge constructively and drive adoption of QA/testing best practices.
Coaching/mentoring mindset; actively supports capability growth across teams.
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Success measures (examples)
Improved defect containment (earlier detection), reduced UAT escape defects, and increased test coverage of E2E journeys.
On-time delivery of test milestones with transparent reporting.
Increased reuse of test assets; improved maturity and consistency of QA practices across teams.
Effective adoption and utilization of test across agreed projects.
What Cencora offers
Benefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.
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