Digital Quality and Test Manager

Sheffield-Hallam-University; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

LGPS pension

USS opt-out available

Job summary

Sheffield Hallam University is seeking a Digital Quality and Test Manager to lead testing across a diverse portfolio of digital projects, ensuring robust end-to-end quality assurance and a superior user experience.

You will mentor Digital Quality and Test Analysts, define testing strategies, coordinate testing activities across projects, and work closely with stakeholders to balance resources and deliver within academic timelines.

Qualifications

• Lead testing activities across multiple digital projects and programmes.
• Define testing strategies, approaches and plans to ensure quality and user experience.
• Mentor and coordinate Digital Quality and Test Analysts.

Responsibilities

• Plan and prioritise testing across concurrent projects within timelines.
• Provide expert guidance on testing requirements, risks, and readiness.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure quality outcomes across systems.

Skills

Testing leadership

QA strategy

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Job description

Grade 7, £40,704 to £45,641 depending on experience

Join our Digital Change team and play a leading role in delivering high-quality, user-focused digital services that support the university's strategic ambitions. As a Digital Quality and Test Manager, you will lead testing activities across a diverse portfolio of digital projects and programmes, ensuring robust end-to-end quality assurance through functional, non-functional, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing.

You will define and implement testing strategies, approaches, and plans that ensure systems are delivered to the highest standards of quality, reliability, and user experience. Working closely stakeholders, you will provide expert guidance on testing requirements, risks, business readiness, and quality outcomes.

The role includes leadership responsibility for mentoring, supporting, and coordinating Digital Quality and Test Analysts, ensuring consistent application of testing standards and providing coaching to help develop capability across the team. You will also plan and prioritise testing activities across multiple concurrent projects, balancing competing demands and ensuring effective use of resources within critical academic and project delivery timelines.

We're looking for a confident and collaborative leader with strong strategic thinking, excellent stakeholder management skills, and proven experience of delivering digital testing and quality assurance across complex systems, projects, and programmes.

You will be contractually enrolled into the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)one of the largest and most generous defined benefit pension schemes in the country.

If you are, or have been, a recent member of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) directly prior to joining us, you can choose to opt out of the LGPS and remain in the USS. Please contact the Pensions team to discuss options available.

Sheffield Hallam welcomes applications from all candidates irrespective of age, pregnancy and maternity, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief, or marital or civil partnership status.

The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international applicants in this role; this will depend on a number of factors specific to the individual applicant. You are advised to assess your eligibility against the criteria set out in the UKVI Guidance before applying.

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