Agile Test Lead

Job title:Agile Test Lead

Salary: circa £85kGrade: Band 3

Contract type: TfL                                                    Reference: 4503

Contract details: Permanent       Location: Pier Walk, North Greenwich

Application closing date: 1/7/2026 at 23:59

External - All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory right‑to‑work checks.  Candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK.  At the present time TfL is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

*Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.

Job Overview:

Are you an experienced Agile test professional? Would you like to join a growing team delivering exciting data products and services to help ‘Keep London Moving’?
The Agile Test Lead (ATL) is responsible for the allocation of resources to perform all types of testing on their portfolio of projects. You will have a test specialism and strong all-round knowledge of the following: Cross-Platform Integration; Performance Testing; Automation Testing; Functional Testing.

ATLs promote best practices, standardisation, continuous improvement, and efficient reuse of testing frameworks and infrastructure across all delivery streams. They do this while also evaluating new tools and techniques, always looking for opportunities to bring further efficiencies into our practices.

They will ensure that their guidance is being adhered to by continually assessing test activities and monitoring results, throughput, and the quality of the software produced.

Key Accountabilities:

• Manage, lead, and mentor a cross-functional team of testers, fostering collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement in testing practices.
• Manage the allocation and utilisation of testing resources, ensuring the right skill sets are assigned to the appropriate tasks and adjusting resources based on project needs and workload.
• Line management duties, including conducting end-of-year performance reviews, setting development goals, providing regular feedback, and supporting the career progression of team members.
• Define and implement the overall test strategy for Agile projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives, timelines, and quality standards across multiple projects or workstreams.
• Provide technical leadership to automation and performance test teams in developing new test suites while continuously seeking to enhance existing test frameworks for improved performance and consistency.
• Drive the adoption and integration of automated testing within the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring tests are run efficiently and consistently.
• Introduce test tools to the Agile test team to bring efficiency and consistency to functional testing.
• In conjunction with the respective Agile Test Lead and other discipline leads, analyse and agree on priorities for testing on a per-release basis.
• Responsible for efficient test implementation, considering automation and performance testing and making decisions based on long-term financial benefits.
• Engage with third parties to deliver automation or performance test solutions as required.
• Ensure test assurance for projects delivered by external suppliers; this includes test assurance of artefacts and bidder evaluations.

Knowledge:

• Expert knowledge of industry testing techniques and methodologies, best practices, and quality assurance activities, assuring the delivery of robust, performant systems that meet quality expectations.
• Broad knowledge and understanding of planning and project management tools and techniques, particularly within the Agile arena.
• Expert knowledge of how to effectively test the integration of internal/external websites and back-office transactional systems.
• Expert technical leadership and a proven ability to apply strategic direction.
• Expert knowledge of test automation best practices and frameworks.
• Expert knowledge of test artefacts, including well-formed test scripts, test execution, test metrics, and test review processes.
• Expert knowledge of Agile methodologies.
• Knowledge and understanding of third-party contractual requirements when working with multiple ve