Glasgow
NATS, a renowned organisation in the Defence & Security sector, is currently seeking a skilled Test Manager for a contract opportunity in Aberdeen. This role involves supporting the delivery of complex technical systems within a safety-critical environment, focusing on test planning, execution, defect management, quality assurance, and test assurance governance. Key Responsibilities: Lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of testing activities across new and existing technical systems. Oversee the full end-to-end test lifecycle, ensuring activities are planned, controlled, executed, and evidenced to the required standard. Provide expert direction for the test strategy, planning, estimating, implementation, and conduct of test programmes. Develop, review, and maintain test strategies, test plans, test scripts, checklists, test reports, and supporting quality assurance documentation. Define test requirements and design tests to satisfy system, safety, user, and project requirements. Ensure requirements are testable, complete, and traceable, with clear linkage between requirements, test activity, evidence, and outcomes. Support the definition of acceptance criteria and contribute evidence and recommendations to acceptance reviews or acceptance panels. Manage test execution records, including test outcomes, evidence, completion dates, tester details, defects, and recommendations. Job Requirements: Previous experience in a Test Manager, Test Lead or senior test coordination role. Strong background in test planning, test execution, test assurance, and defect management within a structured project or systems environment. Experience managing testing across the system lifecycle, including requirements review, test design, test execution, reporting, and acceptance support. Good understanding of test methodologies, quality assurance principles, systems engineering, and software testing processes. Experience working with real-time, operational or safety-critical technical systems. Experience within aviation, air traffic control, systems engineering, or another safety-critical environment. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage confidently with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Strong organisational skills and ability to work effectively across multi-disciplinary teams. Desirable Experience: Bachelor's degree in engineering, computing, or another relevant technical discipline, or equivalent technical experience. HNC-level qualification or higher in an engineering-related discipline would also be considered. Knowledge of radar data processing, flight data processing, voice communications, or similar operational technology would be advantageous. Knowledge of regulatory compliance environments and working to defined safety standards. Experience contributing to work package management, project reporting, resource estimates, test metrics, and assurance evidence. Experience supporting acceptance activity, acceptance criteria definition or formal system acceptance reviews