Telecom Quality & Test Lead: Strategy & Delivery

Cambridge Consultants; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Cambridge Consultants is seeking a Quality & Test professional to lead testing activities on telecoms projects and define testing approaches. You will guide test teams, manage risks, and ensure delivery meets quality and release standards.

You will collaborate with project managers and engineering leads, support bids, and promote continuous improvement, automation, and modern quality practices across engagements.

Qualifications

• Experience leading quality and test engineering activities within telecoms projects or defence, aerospace, electronics, software, or other complex engineering environments.
• Strong understanding of product development lifecycles, including test strategy, planning, verification, validation, and release assurance.
• Ability to define, estimate, plan and manage testing activities within a project environment.
• Ability to identify, assess and manage quality and delivery risks, ensuring appropriate mitigation and escalation where required.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain technical and quality-related issues clearly and work effectively with customers, project teams and senior stakeholders.
• Experience leading, coordinating, mentoring or supporting quality and test engineers to deliver successful project outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Defining and implementing project-level test strategies, ensuring effective verification and validation from requirements through to customer acceptance.
• Managing quality and testing risks within your projects, escalating significant concerns and seeking guidance where appropriate to support successful delivery.
• Working alongside project managers and engineering leads to deliver high-quality outcomes that meet project objectives.
• Communicating testing progress, quality indicators, risks, and release readiness to project stakeholders and customers.
• Contributing to bids, proposals, and planning activities by providing testing and quality assurance input.
• Overseeing, mentoring and supporting quality and test engineers on projects, creating a positive culture focused on accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Promoting and embedding effective test practices and helping teams adopt efficient quality engineering approaches.
• Supporting the implementation of test automation, DevOps, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Test leadership

Quality engineering

Stakeholder management

Test strategy

Communication

Tools

GitLab

Jenkins

Python

Linux

Wireshark

Job description

Cambridge Consultants is seeking a Quality & Test professional to lead testing activities on telecoms projects and define testing approaches. You will guide test teams, manage risks, and ensure delivery meets quality and release standards.

You will collaborate with project managers and engineering leads, support bids, and promote continuous improvement, automation, and modern quality practices across engagements.