feat(tests): let managers escalate and directly resolve disputed tests

Request Discussion only ever nudged the peer lead, and the one-time
manager notification when a dispute starts had no real follow-up
action attached to it — a manager could be told a dispute existed but
had no way to actually do anything about it. Adds:

- POST /tests/{id}/escalate-to-manager — either lead can explicitly
  ask managers to step in, distinct from the passive initial notice.
- POST /tests/{id}/manager-resolve-dispute — a manager decides the
  final outcome (validated/rejected) directly, bypassing both leads'
  votes entirely, reusing the same dual-validation event dispatch so
  Jira/notifications behave like any other resolution.

Both leads are notified of the manager's final call, win or lose.

backend/app/domain/test_entity.py

@@ -672,6 +672,27 @@ class TestEntity:
 
         self._events.append(DomainEvent("dispute_resolved_to_rework", {"target": target}))
 
+    def resolve_dispute_by_manager(self, outcome: str) -> None:
+        """A manager makes the final call on a disputed test, ending the standoff.
+
+        Unlike ``resolve_dispute_reject`` (a lead flipping their own vote),
+        this bypasses both leads entirely — the manager's decision is final
+        and terminal, going straight to ``validated`` or the normal
+        ``rejected`` dead-end (which any lead can later reopen via the
+        standard reopen-to-draft flow, same as any other rejection).
+
+        Args:
+            outcome (str): ``"validated"`` or ``"rejected"``.
+        """
+        if outcome not in ("validated", "rejected"):
+            raise InvalidOperationError("outcome must be 'validated' or 'rejected'")
+
+        target_state = TestState.validated if outcome == "validated" else TestState.rejected
+        self._transition(target_state)
+        self._events.append(
+            DomainEvent("dual_validation_approved" if outcome == "validated" else "dual_validation_rejected")
+        )
+
     # -- Private -------------------------------------------------------
 
     def _auto_resume(self) -> int:

backend/app/routers/tests.py

@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ from app.schemas.test import (
     TestClassificationUpdate,
     TestCreate,
     TestHold,
+    TestManagerResolveDispute,
     TestOut,
     TestRedReview,
     TestRedUpdate,
@@ -152,6 +153,7 @@ from app.services.test_workflow_service import (
     validate_as_red_lead as wf_validate_red,
     validate_as_blue_lead as wf_validate_blue,
     resolve_dispute as wf_resolve_dispute,
+    resolve_dispute_by_manager as wf_resolve_dispute_by_manager,
     reopen_test as wf_reopen,
     handle_remediation_completed as wf_handle_remediation,
     get_retest_chain as wf_get_retest_chain,
@@ -1192,6 +1194,78 @@ def resolve_dispute(
     return test
 
 
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# POST /tests/{id}/escalate-to-manager  —  disputed: notify managers to step in
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+@router.post("/{test_id}/escalate-to-manager")
+def escalate_to_manager(
+    test_id: uuid.UUID,
+    db: Session = Depends(get_db),
+    current_user: User = Depends(require_any_role_strict("red_lead", "blue_lead")),
+):
+    """Either lead on a disputed test can escalate it for a manager to decide.
+
+    Unlike the automatic manager notification sent when a test first becomes
+    disputed, this is an explicit, repeatable nudge — a lead pulls this when
+    peer discussion (Request Discussion) isn't going anywhere.
+    """
+    from app.services.notification_service import notify_role_with_email
+
+    test = crud_get_test_or_raise(db, test_id)
+
+    if test.state.value != "disputed":
+        from app.domain.errors import BusinessRuleViolation
+        raise BusinessRuleViolation("Test is not in disputed state")
+
+    try:
+        notify_role_with_email(
+            db,
+            role="manager",
+            type="validation_disputed",
+            title="Dispute escalated — needs your decision",
+            message=(
+                f'{current_user.username} escalated test "{test.name}" — the leads could not '
+                f'resolve their disagreement. Please review and decide the final outcome.'
+            ),
+            entity_type="test",
+            entity_id=test.id,
+        )
+    except Exception as e:
+        import logging
+        logging.getLogger(__name__).warning("Failed to notify managers of escalation: %s", e)
+
+    log_action(
+        db, user_id=current_user.id, action="escalate_dispute_to_manager",
+        entity_type="test", entity_id=test.id, details={"test_name": test.name},
+    )
+    db.commit()
+
+    return {"status": "escalated", "message": "Managers have been notified"}
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# POST /tests/{id}/manager-resolve-dispute  —  manager makes the final call
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+@router.post("/{test_id}/manager-resolve-dispute", response_model=TestOut)
+def manager_resolve_dispute(
+    test_id: uuid.UUID,
+    payload: TestManagerResolveDispute,
+    db: Session = Depends(get_db),
+    current_user: User = Depends(require_any_role_strict("manager")),
+) -> TestOut:
+    """A manager decides the final outcome of a disputed test directly."""
+    test = crud_get_test_with_technique(db, test_id)
+    with UnitOfWork(db) as uow:
+        test = wf_resolve_dispute_by_manager(db, test, current_user, payload.outcome, notes=payload.notes)
+        uow.commit()
+    db.refresh(test)
+    return test
+
+
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # POST /tests/{id}/reopen  —  rejected → draft
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

backend/app/schemas/test.py

@@ -185,6 +185,13 @@ class TestResolveDispute(BaseModel):
     notes: str | None = None
 
 
+class TestManagerResolveDispute(BaseModel):
+    """Payload sent by a manager making the final call on a disputed test."""
+
+    outcome: str  # "validated" | "rejected"
+    notes: str | None = None
+
+
 # ── Red Lead review gate (pre-Blue-Team) ────────────────────────────
 
 

backend/app/services/test_workflow_service.py

@@ -1341,6 +1341,50 @@ def resolve_dispute(db: Session, test: Test, user: User, target_team: str, notes
     return test
 
 
+def resolve_dispute_by_manager(db: Session, test: Test, user: User, outcome: str, notes: str | None = None) -> Test:
+    """A manager makes the final call on a disputed test — validated or rejected.
+
+    Unlike ``resolve_dispute`` (only the approving lead flipping their own
+    vote), this is a manager override that ends the standoff directly,
+    without either lead having to concede. Reuses the same dual-validation
+    event dispatch as a normal in_review resolution so Jira/notifications
+    behave identically to an ordinary validated/rejected outcome.
+    """
+    if test.state != TestState.disputed:
+        raise InvalidOperationError("Test is not in disputed state")
+
+    entity = TestEntity.from_orm(test)
+    entity.resolve_dispute_by_manager(outcome)
+    entity.apply_to(test)
+    db.flush()
+
+    log_action(
+        db, user_id=user.id, action="manager_resolve_dispute",
+        entity_type="test", entity_id=test.id,
+        details={"outcome": outcome, "notes": notes, "test_name": test.name},
+    )
+
+    _dispatch_dual_validation_effects(db, test, entity, actor=user)
+
+    # Let both leads know the manager made the final call, not just whichever
+    # side "won" — the losing side needs to know just as much.
+    for lead_id in filter(None, {test.red_validated_by, test.blue_validated_by}):
+        try:
+            create_notification(
+                db, user_id=lead_id, type="manager_dispute_resolution",
+                title=f"Manager resolved disputed test as {outcome}",
+                message=(
+                    f'{user.username} resolved the dispute on "{test.name}" as {outcome}.'
+                    + (f" Notes: {notes}" if notes else "")
+                ),
+                entity_type="test", entity_id=test.id,
+            )
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.warning("Notification failed for test %s: %s", test.id, e, exc_info=True)
+
+    return test
+
+
 # Define function handle_remediation_completed
 def handle_remediation_completed(db: Session, test: Test, user: User) -> Test | None:
     """Create a re-test when remediation is completed.