Description
REGRESSION TEST LEAD
Location: This is a Hybrid role. Whiteley, Hampshire
Clearance Required: This role will require attainment and maintenance of SC clearance
About the Role:
We are seeking a Regression Test Lead to join our team and play a key role in delivering a large-scale systems integration programme.
Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will lead the planning, design, execution, and reporting of regression testing activities across a complex technical environment. You will collaborate closely with colleagues, suppliers, international teams, and customer stakeholders to ensure solutions meet quality standards and business requirements.
This role offers the opportunity to work across a diverse technology landscape, including software applications, interfaces, networking, and infrastructure components, helping to identify issues, drive improvements, and support successful programme delivery.
We welcome applications from individuals with a variety of testing backgrounds and experiences. If you meet most of the requirements and are excited by the opportunity, we encourage you to apply.
What You'll Be Doing:
Creating and reviewing Test Plans, Test Designs, Test Cases, and Test Reports.
Collaborating with suppliers, subject matter experts, and stakeholders to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
Designing and executing regression testing activities across multiple integrated systems.
Recording and analysing test results, defects, risks, and issues, providing clear progress reporting.
Investigating defects and working with technical teams to identify root causes and resolutions.
Reviewing large datasets and supplier test evidence to demonstrate compliance with requirements.
Analysing interface messaging and comparing data across legacy and new systems.
Identifying opportunities to improve testing approaches, processes, and quality outcomes.
Supporting the Automation Test Team in the development and maintenance of regression test packs.
What We're Looking For:
Experience working within software testing and quality assurance environments.
An ISTQB or ISEB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing, or equivalent experience.
A strong understanding of the Software Testing Lifecycle and testing methodologies, including Functional, Non-Functional, Integration, and Regression Testing.
Experience working on systems integration programmes, including third-party system integrations.
The ability to create test cases from requirements and design documentation.
Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data and investigate issues.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Good planning, organisational, and prioritisation skills.
A proactive, collaborative approach with a desire to continuously learn and develop.
The ability to work on-site in Fareham as required.
What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.
We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:
Contributory Pension Scheme
Private Medical Insurance
33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme and much more!)
Flexi-Time Working
Commitment to Diversity:
We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.
Who We Are:
Leidos UK & Europe – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science. Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.
What Makes Us Different:
Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.
Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.
People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.
If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
£47,600.00-£61,000.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
About Leidos
Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.
Pay and Benefits
Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.
Securing Your Data
Beware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos’ name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information during any part of the employment application process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). Further, Leidos will only communicate with you through emails that are generated by the Leidos.com automated system – never from free commercial services (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or via WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediately by emailing us at [email protected].
If you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
Commitment to Non-Discrimination
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.
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