Project Test Manager

Introduction

Saab UK is part of Scandinavia's largest defence company, bringing together the best of Swedish and British innovation. Saab offers world-leading solutions and services in defence, aviation, space, and civil security to keep people and society safe. Our UK presence has been growing at pace, meaning we can offer a wide range of opportunities for personal fulfilment and career growth. We currently employ over 600 people across eight sites in the UK, and our specialisations include software engineering, underwater robotics, radars, AI, and armed forces training.

The Role:

This position will be working on new customer implementations or new product delivery projects delivering mission critical solutions across our emergency service's portfolio in our Public Safety Solutions (PSS) business unit, with accountability for testing across the full project lifecycle.

Project Test Management:

Provide overall test oversight for assigned delivery projects

Define and implement the project test strategy aligned to delivery timelines and milestones

Create and maintain formal test plans for all delivery phases (e.g. SIT, FAT, SAT, UAT, BCDR)

Produce and manage test schedules

Ensure testing is integrated throughout the full delivery lifecycle, including development and formal delivery phases

Manage stakeholders as a primary escalation point for quality issues within the project

Drive quality focus during the project to ensure the solution maintains mission critical reliability and meets security and compliance through adherence to QA and test processes

Early Lifecycle Involvement:

Engage from the requirements stage onwards, ensuring features are clearly defined, testable and aligned to user and operational needs

Review and challenge requirements and designs to identify gaps, ambiguity and risks early

Map functional test coverage to the requirement traceability matrix

Ensure key non-functional requirements (e.g. performance, usability, resilience) are considered before development begins

Feed identified risks, dependencies and constraints into project planning

Test Governance and Readiness:

Validate Definition of Ready and Acceptance Criteria during development phase

Plan and lead Test Readiness Reviews (TRR) and Test Wash-Up Reviews (TWR) for formal delivery phases

Adhere to quality and governance standards throughout the project

Define test environment requirements for each phase

Test Delivery Oversight:

Ensure test scope is aligned to requirements

Oversee and support test script creation at both project level and sprint/feature level

Oversee test execution across all phases, including testing during development

Ensure regression testing is maintained and executed regularly throughout delivery

Support the testers to manage any blockers

Defect & Quality Management:

Coordinate defect management across all test phases

Track and report on defect status and severity, and capture trends

Track and report on test execution progress, including status and test velocity

Reporting & Closure:

Produce test phase closure reports with a clear view of quality and risks

Provide stakeholders with confidence in system readiness for release

Continuous Improvement

Support the Quality Manager with driving continuous improvement of processes

Support Root Cause and Trend analysis

Qualifications and Skills:

Proficiency in developing Master Test Plans, estimating testing efforts, and defining test automation policies

Proven Project Leadership experience

Experience in full lifecycle project management

Experience and proficiency within a Methodology framework such as Agile, Waterfall, SAFe or similar

Strong organisational awareness to translate complex quality metrics into actionable insights for senior management.

Experience within Emergency/Critical Services and their Software's would be an advantage

By submitting an application to Saab UK you consent to undertaking workforce screening activities that may include but are not limited to: Baseline Personnel Security checks, National Security Vetting, reference checks, verification of working rights and in all circumstances preferred candidates will be placed through a security interview