Oracle Fusion Test Lead - People & Money

Employer: The University of Edinburgh - ISG - Applications - People and Money Service

Location: Edinburgh

Salary: £50,253 to £61,759 per annum (Grade 8)

Hours: Full Time (35 hours per week)

Contract Type: Permanent

Placed On: 15th September 2025

Closes: 6th October 2025

What the job involves:

• The People & Money Test Lead owns the testing of People & Money functionality. They are responsible for ensuring all testing deliverables are completed to the highest standard and delivered on time.
• The People & Money Test Lead is responsible for test quality & test advocacy, resource planning & management, and resolution of issues that impede the testing effort and final delivery. The post holder will assume overall responsibility for strategy, planning, execution, reporting, defect management, and test support.
• The People & Money Test Lead develops test plans and manages the planning and coordination of test execution by business users as part of regression testing and testing of new functionality, coaching business users in good test practice and facilitating their successful execution of the test plan.
• The People & Money Test Lead owns the relationship with any testing as a service (TaaS) relationship established with external partners. Planning testing, monitoring progress, facilitating discussions between the University and the supplier on this topic and holding suppliers to account.

A bit about you:

• Significant, demonstrable testing experience with Oracle or similar ERP systems and particularly in Finance & HR processes.
• Strong people management skills including experience of leading test teams.
• Experience of all test phases: functional, non-functional, system, integration and user acceptance testing.
• Communication skills are critical for this the role – colleagues should be able to communicate with a range of stakeholders: both inside the University and in external organisations; with technical colleagues and colleagues in business teams; and with colleagues at all levels of the University.
• Experience of test and defect management tools including TestRail and JIRA.

What we can offer you:

• A competitive salary of £50,253 – £61,759 per annum
• A chance to contribute to an exciting programme of change and make a clear impact on the experience of all staff using our HR and Finance processes.
• Generous annual leave allowance of 40 days per year (inclusive of festive closure days)
• Highly competitive defined-benefit pension scheme with a substantial employer contribution
• A range of flexible working options to help prioritise work/life balance
• A day of paid leave annually for your chosen volunteering activity
• Access to excellent online learning and a Staff Scholarship fund
• Varied staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, support for staff wellbeing and more