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.