General information

Job Title
Test Engineering Lead
Ref #
9501
Location
Edinburgh
Department
IMS - Engineering
Business Area
Engineering
Working time
Full-Time
Date Published
03-03-2026

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Salary - From £70,000 & benefits & annual bonus
Work Level – 2
Location – Newcastle, Edinburgh or Glasgow, Permanent
Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid; however, you should be able to work from your nearest Tesco Insurance and Money Services’ Office 2 days per week. Occasional travel to other Tesco offices may also be required.
Closing Date – 17th March 2026

Are you passionate about shaping the future of Technology in a dynamic, customer-focused environment? Tesco Insurance is growing their Engineering team, and we’re looking for a Test Engineering Lead to lead the charge in testing our systems to assure quality on behalf of our customers and colleagues.

Leadership: As a Test Engineering Lead, you’ll help to lead the test engineering community across multiple cross-disciplined engineering feature teams across the enterprise, providing an opportunity to demonstrate and enhance your leadership skills

Influence on Direction: You’ll support the Quality Assurance Manager to set the testing direction and drive through improvements, features, and changes while delivering on committed product changes. This allows you to make a significant impact on the product and the team.
Mentorship Opportunities: You’ll work closely with all engineers on your team, from seniors to juniors, mentoring and building their careers. This provides a chance to share your knowledge and help others grow.

Collaborative Environment: We encourage all engineers across the disciplines to share new ideas, challenge existing practices, and look for opportunities to improve their teams and the wider engineering community creating a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Subject Matter Expertise: You’ll act as one of the subject matter experts on testing with architecture, cloud, data and software. Allowing you to showcase and further develop your expertise. You’ll support the maintenance of standards and best practises within test ensuring these are all understood within your area.

Career Advancement: Working closely with Quality Assurance Manager on longer-term Test Engineering goals provides an excellent opportunity for career advancement.

What you’ll be doing
• Supporting the rollout of the test strategy across Insurance and Money Services
• Ensuring alignment of the IMS Enterprise Testing Strategy through large transformation changes as well as smaller BAU releases
• Supporting setting the test engineering standards and controls across the testing community and ensuring that they are being followed on all releases
• Driving the adoption of automation where possible to allow us to continue on our CI/CD journey
• Producing quality metrics across Insurance and Money Services to support continuous improvement
• Work with the Quality Assurance Manager to produce a roadmap for tooling and automation improvements and ongoing maintenance

What we’re looking for (essential)
• Demonstrable experience of test leadership roles in medium to large enterprise organisations
• Experience of QA and Test Practices and techniques, software and technologies
• A long track record in test delivery, including both large scale programme releases and smaller change
• Good knowledge and hands on experience of test tooling including functional and non-functional
• Good knowledge of continuous integration and continuous delivery practices
• Skilled staff management and leadership capability displaying excellent judgement and latitude in decision making
• Experience of testing complex, enterprise-scale, multi-tier environments
• Strong communication skills at all levels across the organisation
We don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.

What’s in it for you?
• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme
• Private Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service you and your family 365 days a year.
• Critical illness cover
• Competitive performance related annual bonus
• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more
• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday (worth up to £2K). As an added perk, we’ll give you a second card to share with someone else
• Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8-week paid paternity leave.
• Green car leasing taxable benefit
• A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want
• Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as your Earn share schemes

Everyone’s welcome
We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves. We’re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Interviews
We know the importance of balancing work with life’s other commitments. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, as we’re committed to exploring part time and flexible working opportunities, at every level of the organisation.

Interviews are expected to be held shortly after closing date.

Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?

Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling.

Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for.

Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.

So, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you've found it.

Let's make everyday a little better.

Our story

Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.

We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.

We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centres are open seven days a week.

Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes – people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.

How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.

Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more!
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