Test Lead

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. 

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders. 

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.  

Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best.  

Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day. 

We’re looking for a Test Lead to join our Group Functions Technology & Data team, supporting a range of projects and business-as-usual delivery across a complex enterprise environment. This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping and enhancing testing capability, with a strong focus on improving quality, driving automation, and supporting large-scale transformation initiatives.

You’ll be working across a diverse application landscape, collaborating with stakeholders and delivery teams to ensure testing is efficient, effective, and aligned to business needs. This role offers the chance to influence how testing is delivered while helping to build and mature testing practices.

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading end-to-end testing across projects and programmes, ensuring quality standards are met
• Developing and implementing test strategies and test data management approaches
• Planning and managing test activities including scope, timelines, resources, and methodologies
• Collaborating with stakeholders to defining test scenarios, test cases, and execution plans
• Overseeing test execution, monitoring progress, and ensuring alignment to agreed plans
• Managing defect identification, prioritisation, tracking, and resolution processes
• Providing regular reporting on test progress, risks, and issues to key stakeholders
• Driving continuous improvement across testing practices, including automation and efficiency

Who we’re looking for:

• Strong experience leading testing within complex project and enterprise environments
• Proven expertise in test planning, execution, and delivery across multiple projects
• Hands-on experience with test data management and data testing including ETL or data migration
• Understanding of a range of testing methodologies including Agile and traditional delivery models
• Experience using test management and automation tools to support delivery and reporting
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and non-technical teams
• Ability to lead, coach, and support team members to improve capability and performance
• A proactive and adaptable mindset, with a focus on quality and continuous improvement

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• We’re creating net‑zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in‑person experience

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. 

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. 

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.