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 role.