Testing Manager in Nottingham

Ready to utilise your experience in Non‑Functional Testing? We have an exciting opportunity for you – Non‑Functional Testing (NFT) Manager!

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The Role

As a Non‑Functional Testing (NFT) Manager, you will be responsible for defining, leading, and governing the non‑functional testing strategy across complex enterprise programmes. We are looking for an experienced professional to manage performance, security, resilience, accessibility, and operational acceptance testing across multiple initiatives. You will work closely with project leadership, architecture, engineering, and delivery teams to ensure non‑functional requirements (NFRs) are clearly defined, planned, tested, and met. The role includes ownership of NFR test frameworks, tooling, reporting, and capability uplift, ensuring solutions meet enterprise quality, reliability, and scalability standards.

Key responsibilities

• Define and own the overall non‑functional testing strategy, frameworks, standards, and best practices.
• Partner with Project Managers, Portfolio Leads, and senior stakeholders to plan, estimate, track, and manage NFR testing timelines, scope, and budgets.
• Lead performance, load, stress, volume, security, accessibility, and failover testing across programmes.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to identify non‑functional requirements and translate them into measurable test criteria.
• Manage end‑to‑end NFR testing activities, including planning, environment readiness, data preparation, tool selection, and execution.
• Analyse test results to identify bottlenecks, provide tuning recommendations, and drive timely issue resolution.
• Establish monitoring and observability practices using APM tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, and Grafana.
• Produce high‑quality test reports, dashboards, and release readiness assessments for leadership and governance forums.
• Lead, coach, and mentor the non‑functional testing team, ensuring capability uplift and alignment to enterprise QA standards.

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience

• Strong professional experience within QA, performance engineering, or non‑functional testing leadership roles.
• Proven experience managing non‑functional and performance testing in complex enterprise environments with onshore‑offshore delivery models.
• Strong expertise in performance testing tools such as JMeter, NeoLoad, and LoadRunner.
• Deep understanding of performance engineering concepts and performance architecture.
• Experience guiding teams through performance execution and producing detailed analysis reports.
• Proven ability to estimate QA scope, risk, effort, and budget on behalf of performance or NFR teams.
• Strong skills in identifying memory leaks, CPU issues, and performance degradation, and collaborating with engineering teams on remediation.
• In‑depth knowledge of APM, monitoring tools, bottleneck analysis, and distributed system performance.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, analytical, and problem‑solving skills.
• Experience benchmarking performance results and identifying optimisation opportunities.
• Certifications such as ISTQB Advanced Test Manager, Performance Testing certifications, or equivalent.
• Experience working with microservices, APIs, and containerised platforms (Docker, Kubernetes).

TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network. We offer health & wellness initiatives and sports events; we are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon.

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing

Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998. We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role. As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer an interview to applicants with disabilities or long‑term conditions who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

Next Steps

Application Process

• Online application: You can apply directly through LinkedIn/by uploading your CV.
• Skill‑Based discussion: This will be a level 1 interview with the project team, it can be via video or in‑person.
• Managerial discussion: This discussion will focus on behavioural aspects and person‑organisation fit.
• HR Discussion: This will be with one of the members of the HR team and will cover your career journey, aspirations for growth, compensation and any other questions you may have.

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