Test & Release Manager

Role: Test and Release Manager

Location: London (Oxford Circus)

Hybrid: 1-2 days per week in the office

About Monument Technology Limited

Monument Technology provides everything needed to build and run a bank with an open, configurable, end-to-end banking platform as a service which uses best-in-class components to empower small and medium-sized banks around the world to thrive in the digital age. Monument Technology takes the proven, end to end platform developed for Monument Bank, the leading bank for the mass affluent, and makes it available to financial institutions in the UK and globally as a licensed Banking Platform as a Service.

Our platform is a full-stack ‘bank or building-society-in-a-box’, delivering all the functionality needed to run and grow a modern, digital-led financial institution, including native mobile app and web experience, servicing, core and all the back-end technologies, integrated in a single, cloud-native solution (“Bank-in-a-Box”).

Monument Technology provides everything in one solution, taking care of all third-party contracts and integrations as well as ongoing maintenance and future platform enhancements - all for one annual licence fee, allowing our customers to embrace the most modern technology available, without any of the complexity.

THE ROLE

We’re looking for a Test and Release Manager to own and drive the test strategy, framework and quality standards for our client programme workstreams, ensuring every release meets Monument Technology’s testing standards before it reaches production. You’ll work in partnership with the Head of Testing and Release, owning quality end to end for your workstream.

This is a hands-on QA leadership role, not a purely oversight one. You’ll lead day-to-day test planning, design and execution across functional, non-functional, regression and exploratory testing, review test coverage, triage defects, and unblock the team on complex scenarios. You’ll also champion and expand test automation coverage, tooling and best practice across the team.

Just as important is coordination and influence: keeping test cycles aligned to the delivery schedule across third-party suppliers and internal teams, giving the programme clear visibility of quality health, and line managing and mentoring QA testers to build capability and consistency in ways of working.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT

• Own and drive the test strategy, framework and quality standards for client programme workstreams, ensuring every release meets Monument Technology’s testing standards before it reaches production.
• Lead day-to-day test planning, design and execution across functional, non-functional, regression and exploratory testing.
• Provide hands-on QA leadership, reviewing test coverage, triaging defects and unblocking the team on complex scenarios.
• Champion and expand test automation coverage, tooling and best practice across the team.
• Coordinate testing activity across third-party suppliers and internal teams to keep test cycles aligned to the delivery schedule.
• Own defect management for your workstream, tracking, prioritising and driving defects to resolution with engineering, and holding the line under go-live pressure.
• Maintain and report on test metrics such as coverage, defect density and pass/fail trends to give the programme visibility of quality health.
• Support entry and exit criteria assessment for test phases including SIT, UAT and Dress Rehearsal, flagging risks early, including on data migration workstreams.
• Line manage and mentor QA testers, building capability and consistency in ways of working, and continually improve testing efficiency, effectiveness and tooling across the team.

WE LOOK FOR PEOPLE WITH

• A strong background in Financial Services, Agile methodology, software testing and release processes is essential, with an excellent understanding of testing tools, technologies and processes, including industry best-practice automation tools and techniques.
• A proven track record building test functions across multiple concurrent projects and managing client engagements, including data migrations.
• Demonstrable adherence to change management, risk and control processes.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills, with a proactive, collaborative approach and the ability to hold the line with engineering when priorities clash.
• The ability to define test strategies and to enforce and evolve QA standards and best practices.
• Desirable: familiarity with cloud-native architectures and modern deployment methodologies; experience leading or mentoring a team of QA testers with genuine day-to-day ownership of their output and development; and a passion for staying current with testing best practice and digital and market trends.

OUR CULTURE AND VALUES

Our culture and values align with our mission to truly understand and offer exceptional service to our clients.

The Monument Technology team is passionate about building more than a bank and more than a technology platform. We are driven to create solutions that respect our clients’ time, complexity and ambition.

We are guided by integrity, attentiveness, a sense of community and innovation. We build trusted relationships through collaboration, attention to detail and a commitment to continuous improvement. Through inclusive thinking and purposeful innovation, we enable our clients and colleagues to achieve more.