Cambridge Consultants

Quality & Test Lead - Telecoms

Cambridge Consultants  •  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Onsite)  •  3 hours ago
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Job Description

We are seeking a Quality & Test professional looking to take the next step in their career. This is a client-facing role for someone who can provide quality and test leadership, define appropriate testing approaches, guide test teams, and provide assurance on product quality and release readiness on telecoms projects.

Working with the support of senior engineering and project leaders, you will have opportunities to broaden your experience across increasingly complex delivery environments while developing your strategic thinking, stakeholder management, and quality engineering capabilities.

As we expand into emerging telecoms technologies such as AI-RAN, space economy and non-terrestrial networks, you will play an important role in delivering next-generation communications systems whilst building experience across innovative new technologies.

Examples of projects we have worked on in the recent past are:

What You'll Be Doing

Supporting a range of telecoms projects, you will oversee quality and testing activities, helping to ensure solutions are delivered to the required standards of quality, performance, and customer satisfaction.

Key responsibilities include:

  • 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.

What you need to succeed:

  • Experience leading quality and test engineering activities within telecoms projects or defence, aerospace, electronics, software, or other complex engineering environments.
  • Good 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.

Desirable:

  • Experience supporting bids, proposals or customer-facing activities.
  • Experience with test automation, DevOps, CI/CD or modern quality engineering practices.
  • Knowledge of one or more of the following areas: embedded software, hardware engineering, AI, cloud technologies, systems integration or telecommunications.
  • Familiarity with tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible, Python, Linux, Wireshark or similar engineering and test tools.
  • Knowledge of telecoms technologies including mobile networks, satellite communications, RF systems, 3GPP, DVB or IP networking.
  • Understanding of how AI can be applied within telecoms systems or quality engineering activities.
  • Relevant professional certifications or evidence of ongoing professional development in testing, quality engineering or related disciplines.

We recognise that candidates develop expertise through different experiences. If your background does not exactly match every requirement but you are excited about the role, we would welcome your application.

Why Cambridge Consultants?

Cambridge Consultants creates exciting and novel breakthroughs in technology and products. We help our clients achieve the kind of game-changing leap forward that will transform their whole business.

At the heart of what we do, we have talented and motivated multi-disciplinary teams empowered to create cutting edge technologies and systems to solve difficult problems for our clients.

We recognise and celebrate individual talent, and we understand the importance of letting individuals be just that. Our people are here to do their best work, and our job is to provide the platform for them to do it.

By submitting an application to Cambridge Consultants, you confirm that the information provided in this application, together with any supporting documentation, is true, complete, and accurate to the best of your knowledge and belief. You understand that any false statement, misleading information, or material omission may render you liable to disqualification from the recruitment process, withdrawal of any offer of employment, or dismissal without notice if discovered following appointment. You acknowledge that the organisation reserves the right to verify the information supplied.

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About Cambridge Consultants

We do deep tech, you create the future… we are Cambridge Consultants. We do extraordinary, new-to-the-world deep tech innovation. What is deep tech? It’s a mindset; a bold strategy that harnesses radical science and engineering to achieve things no-one else can. It enables our clients to gain unassailable commercial advantage from defendable technology that they own. Markets are redefined, and the world takes notice.

As the deep tech powerhouse of Capgemini, we’re ready to work with you to create technologies, services and products that have never been seen before. And which will transform business, society and the planet. If your ambition is to shatter the status quo, it’s time to get the future you want – with the power of deep tech.

We are global team of 800 bright, talented people, delivering work across 35 countries from offices in Cambridge (UK) Boston (USA), Singapore and Tokyo. We have more than 140 laboratories and over 200,000 square feet of world-class design and development facilities.

Our people are united by the ambition to turn brilliant, breakthrough ideas into scaled technologies, products and services. Cambridge Consultants is trusted by some of the world’s biggest brands and most ambitious start-ups to achieve their critical technology-based aspirations – and we’ve been doing it for more than 60 years.

Industry
Creative & Design
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Cambridge, GB
Year Founded
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