Test Team Lead
South Cambridgeshire | 5 days On-site
Up to £50k + benefits

Are you an experienced hardware test engineer who wants to start their journey towards management? Maybe you're already seen as a team mentor?

We are on the look-out for a hands-on Lead Test & Reliability Engineer to join a well-established UK engineering business designing and manufacturing sensor products used globally in safety-critical applications.

This role sits at the heart of product development. You’ll lead reliability, verification, and validation testing across both existing and next-generation hardware, while staying close to the lab and the detail. It’s a mix of technical leadership, practical testing, and problem solving.

The role

• Lead and coordinate reliability, verification, and validation activities
• Design and execute environmental, lifetime, and system-level tests
• Develop test plans, methods, and clear technical reports
• Carry out failure analysis and reliability investigations
• Design and maintain bespoke test rigs and infrastructure
• Use Python to control test equipment, analyse data, and visualise results
• Work closely with R&D, product development, manufacturing, and quality
• Manage test priorities and internal resources

Essential skills

• Degree or HND in a relevant STEM subject (or equivalent experience)
• Experience in a product development or manufacturing environment
• Strong understanding of reliability, environmental, and lifetime testing
• Systems reliability experience (hardware and firmware)
• Confident working hands-on with lab equipment
• Experience scripting in Python, LabVIEW, or similar

Nice to have's

• Statistical analysis or reliability data analysis experience
• Exposure to formal quality systems or Six Sigma
• Knowledge of gas sensing, VOCs, or analytical instrumentation

Keen to express your interest, or find out more?
Option 1: Click apply (we’ll always talk before anything goes forward)
Option 2: Drop me a message on LinkedIn (Rachel Bush – SoCode Recruitment)