Test Lead

About the job you're considering

We work closely with clients and partners to take full advantage of the opportunities of technology. We mobilize expert teams that create custom solutions from existing and emerging technology to deliver viable outcomes at speed. We call this 'Value in the making.'
Part of the Capgemini Group, Sogeti makes business value through technology for organizations that need to implement innovation at speed and want a local partner with global scale. With a hands-on culture and close proximity to its clients, Sogeti is currently looking for a Test Lead to join our Quality Engineering and Test Practice, ensuring alignment with business goals and driving impactful value creation for our clients.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)

Your role

• Lead test planning, coordination, and execution across projects and programmes.
• Define and maintain test strategies, approaches, plans, and governance aligned to project objectives.
• Oversee all stages of testing including integration, system, performance, regression, and user acceptance testing activities.
• Manage test risks, defects, and reporting, ensuring clear communication of quality status to stakeholders.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance testing processes, tools, and quality practices.
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and guidance to testing teams.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills
• Guide teams in adopting best practices across all delivery environments including agile, DevOps, and waterfall.
• Collaborate with developers, business analysts, architects, and project teams to ensure quality is embedded throughout the SDLC.
• Engage with stakeholders at all levels to communicate testing progress, outcomes, and key risks.
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You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini, stiving for equity, diversity and inclusion is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built an inclusive and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Your skills and experience

• Proven experience leading testing activities across complex projects and programmes.
• Strong defect management, risk assessment, and quality assurance skills.
• Hands-on experience with functional, integration, system, regression, and user acceptance testing and familiarity with non-functional testing.
• Experience working within agile, DevOps, and waterfall environments
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to align testing activities with business and project objectives.
• Familiarity with test management and defect tracking tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, TFS, or ALM.
• Experience with API testing tools such as Postman, ReadyAPI, or SoapUI.
• Understanding of test automation principles and collaboration with automation teams.
• Familiarity with Generative and Agentic AI and how this can be used within a quality engineering environment
• ISTQB Foundation Certification in software testing (or equivalent) desirable.

We are a Disability Confident Employer:

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

What does 'Get The Future You Want' mean for you?

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard Management or, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance.  Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people.  All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.  We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible.  It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future.  By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.