Test Lead

Test Lead (FTC, 12-months)

About Indra Group UK & Ireland

Indra is a leading global technology and consulting company, and a trusted technological partner for the core business operations of its clients worldwide. It stands at the forefront of key sectors including Transport, Defence, Air Traffic Management and Space, alongside advanced Information Technology services delivered through Minsait, and cutting-edge capabilities in Sovereign AI, Cybersecurity, and Cyberdefence via IndraMind.

The company’s business model is built around a comprehensive portfolio of proprietary products, combining strong innovation with a high-value focus for customers.

With more than 2,500 projects implemented across 50 countries and over 100 cities, Indra is a global benchmark in innovative transportation and mobility solutions. It is recognised as one of the world’s top three companies in public transportation management systems. Indra’s technology supports the daily journeys of over 78 million people, helping to reduce more than 10 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions annually, and helping save nearly 3,000 lives through improved traffic management and road safety.

Indra Group is paving the way to a more secure and better-connected future through innovative solutions, trusted relationships and the very best talent. Sustainability sits at the heart of its strategy and culture, driving efforts to address current and future social and environmental challenges.

In the 2024 financial year, Indra achieved revenues of €5.5 billion, over 60,000 professionals, maintained a local presence in 46 countries, and operated across more than 140 countries worldwide.

As the technological partner for its customers’ key operations, Indra is at the core of their business, and Indra’s four values guide everything we do:

Innovation - Our capacity for innovation, cutting-edge solutions, and specialised team of professionals enables us to drive a safer, more connected future through technology.

Trust - We work with strength, commitment, and reliability, delivering quality solutions to build trust with customers, employees, partners, investors, and society.

Connection - We harness the power of collaboration, connect ideas and solutions, and adapt to our customers’ needs, supporting them on the path to a better future.

Foresight - We anticipate future needs to make the world safer and more connected, transforming our experience and knowledge into solutions for a better tomorrow.

About the Project

Transport for London (TfL) has awarded Indra a long-term contract to operate, develop, enhance and expand ticketing and access control systems across London’s transport network through to 2034, with extension options to 2039.

This programme covers the maintenance, operation and evolution of a large-scale, complex ecosystem, including turnstiles, validators, ticket machines, sales terminals, back-office systems, payment gateways, IT infrastructure and cybersecurity that supports over 8.6 million daily journeys.

Therefore, Indra will become TfL’s strategic technology partner to guarantee the operation and evolution of the world’s largest and most sophisticated ticketing system. Following a transition period of approximately two years, Indra will serve as the sole provider across the network that includes more than 8,500 buses, nearly 400 Underground stations, around 300 rail stations (Overground, DLR, Elizabeth Line and suburban services), 4,000 Oyster Card outlets, seven customer service centres, and 24 river boat boarding points.

Drawing on over 30 years of experience in urban public transport solutions, Indra will manage and evolve all aspects of the system. The project also envisages, in partnership with TfL, the implementation of new technologies to develop the system, make it more efficient and automate key processes; in short, to jointly create the next generation of the ticketing system for London.

Role overview

The Test Lead is responsible for coordinating the day-to-day testing operations across transportation systems and services, ensuring that testing activities are delivered safely, effectively, efficiently, and to the required quality standards. Working under the direction of the Test Manager, the role provides technical leadership to a team of Test Engineers, coordinates test execution, supports test planning and reporting activities, and ensures the team remains aligned with project objectives, priorities, and delivery milestones.

Key duties include:

• Coordinate the day-to-day activities of a team of Test Engineers.
• Plan, organise and monitor test execution to ensure delivery against agreed schedules.
• Working within Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or Hybrid delivery environments.
• Review test cases, test procedures and test evidence before execution.
• Drive test automation initiatives and identify opportunities to increase automation coverage across functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Ensure requirements are traceable through test cases and execution results.
• Support the preparation of System Test plans, Daily/Weekly Test Status Reports and progress updates.
• Coordinate defect management activities and ensure issues are correctly recorded, prioritised, tracked through to resolution and perform root cause analysis.
• Support the commissioning, configuration and maintenance of test environments, laboratory equipment and test assets.
• Ensure testing activities comply with project processes, quality standards and safety requirements.
• Provide technical guidance, mentoring and knowledge sharing to Test Engineers.
• Work closely with Engineering, Development and Project teams to support successful project delivery.
• Support customer demonstrations, witness testing and operational readiness activities where required.
• Drive continuous improvement of testing processes, tools and working practices.
• Supervise maintenance of test assets such as devices and technical tooling
• Collaborate closely with Environment and Infrastructure teams
• Coach the team in the use of management tools: Requirements, Test, Defects, Knowledge
• Ensure compliance with Testing Management Plan and System Test Strategy
• Analyze testing inputs in the form of technical documentation

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/ software engineering/ Electronic Engineering or a related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Minimum 8+ years of software and/or hardware experience including at least 3 years of proven experience in leading day-to-day System Test activities within complex software or systems integration programmes.
• Mandatory Certifications: ISTQB Foundation
• Strong experience preparing, reviewing and executing System Test plans, test cases and test procedures.
• Experience coordinating small technical teams and allocating testing activities.
• Strong understanding of functional testing, defect management, software testing methodologies and quality assurance principles.
• Experience working with test management tools such as TestRail, Jira, Confluence or equivalent.
• Experience supporting test environments, laboratory equipment, PCI equipment and engineering test facilities.
• Strong analytical, organisational and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Desirables:

• Transportation or Mobility system domain knowledge/ Payment system knowledge. Systems integration and multi-supplier environments.
• Desirable Certification: ISTQB Advanced level
• Desirable Certification: Agile or Scrum Certification
• Desirable non-functional testing experience such as performance and security

Benefits

• Holidays: 25 days per annum + 8 days bank holidays (options to buy/sell days).
• Pension - 4% employee and 4% employer.
• Private medical insurance (including dental & optical).
• Life assurance.
• Income protection.
• Employee assistance programs.
• Flexible/remote working options.
• Charitable initiatives.
• Social events (formal & informal).
• Learning and development programs.
• Innovative & collaborative work environment.

Indra is an equal employment opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, origin, disability or other characteristics protected by law.