Test Manager

NATS, a renowned organisation in the Defence & Security sector, is currently seeking a skilled Test Manager for a contract opportunity in Aberdeen. This role involves supporting the delivery of complex technical systems within a safety-critical environment, focusing on test planning, execution, defect management, quality assurance, and test assurance governance.

• Lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of testing activities across new and existing technical systems.
• Oversee the full end-to-end test lifecycle, ensuring activities are planned, controlled, executed, and evidenced to the required standard.
• Provide expert direction for the test strategy, planning, estimating, implementation, and conduct of test programmes.
• Develop, review, and maintain test strategies, test plans, test scripts, checklists, test reports, and supporting quality assurance documentation.
• Define test requirements and design tests to satisfy system, safety, user, and project requirements.
• Ensure requirements are testable, complete, and traceable, with clear linkage between requirements, test activity, evidence, and outcomes.
• Support the definition of acceptance criteria and contribute evidence and recommendations to acceptance reviews or acceptance panels.
• Manage test execution records, including test outcomes, evidence, completion dates, tester details, defe...