Regions
Location
  • City of Westminster
Job types
  • Contract
  • Hybrid Working
  • Inside IR35
Industry
  • IT Services 
Salary

£900 - 1,150 per day

Functions
  • QA Tester
Seniority
  • Leadership
Technologies
  • Typescript
Job reference

119767

Head of Testing – Contract – £950 to £1150 inside IR35 – Dublin (2/3 days per week)

 

La Fosse are seeking a highly experienced Interim Head of Testing to provide senior leadership and oversight across a complex UK programme during a critical delivery phase. This role will stabilise, strengthen, and mature the test capability, with a clear focus on readiness for an initial Go Live at the end of July.

 

This is a head-of-function leadership role, accountable for the end‑to‑end test agenda and requiring confident engagement with C‑suite and Executive Directors.

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Own the end‑to‑end test strategy and act as the single point of accountability for test quality, risk, and go‑live readiness
  • Provide clear, credible test status, risk, and confidence reporting to Executive and Board‑level stakeholders
  • Lead test governance across a complex, multi‑workstream and multi‑vendor landscape, ensuring quality gates, metrics, and controls are in place
  • Drive a pragmatic, risk‑based testing approach aligned to business, operational, and regulatory priorities
  • Define and embed “what good looks like” for testing, balancing immediate delivery needs with sustainable capability uplift
  • Provide hands‑on leadership, coaching, and challenge to the Test Lead and wider test community
  • Maintain sharp focus on delivery milestones, particularly readiness for the first Go Live at the end of July
  • Provide clear visibility of residual risk and make informed test‑led recommendations into go‑live decisions

 

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