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Test Lead
Job Posted: 4 hours ago
Salary: £ 65,000 - 75,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Waterbeach
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Job Title: Test Lead
Location: North of Cambridge
Salary: Up to £75k
1 day working from home per week
A long standing client of ours within the communications industry are hiring a Test Lead following an internal restructure!
This role sits inside a software delivery team, quietly ensuring that what gets built actually works - and that other teams know how to do the same!
What the job really involves:
Embedded software testing within one scrum team: reviewing stories, checking behaviours, finding gaps.
Digging into features through functional and exploratory testing.
Spotting issues early, tracing them through logs, and working with developers to fix them.
Adding automation for the scenarios that matter.
Supplying tests and data into CI pipelines.
Reporting what’s ready, what isn’t, and what needs attention.Wider influence:
Supporting testers across multiple teams with guidance and hands-on help.
Keeping testing approaches consistent and sensible.
Helping teams plan workload, understand risks, and prepare for releases.
Being the go-to person for functional quality questions.
Encouraging good habits: clearer stories, better test design, cleaner reporting.Experience you’ll need:
Strong functional testing background within Agile/Scrum teams.
Comfortable owning product quality end-to-end.
Good at shaping acceptance criteria and clarifying requirements.
Solid test design skills and confidence with logs and debugging.
Experience with complex systems (embedded, networking, telecoms, or similar).
Able to write or extend automated checks (Python/C#).
Some experience guiding other testers.Useful extras:
Telecoms or embedded tech exposure.
CI/CD familiarity.
Some understanding of performance/reliability testing.Other requirements:
Degree in a technical field (or equivalent experience).
Clean driving licence, car, passport; occasional travel.
Able to obtain Security Clearance in future.If you like being hands-on, helping others, and making sure things work properly without shouting about it, this is that kind of roleBefore You Apply
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