Digital Quality and Test Manager

Job description

Digital Quality and Test Manager

Digital Technology Services

Professional & Business Support

Grade 7m £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.

We offer a diverse range of benefits and opportunities to pursue a rewarding and fulfilling career in a supportive environment.

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.

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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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Contact Person : Ian Whiteley
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Date Advertised : 29-Oct-2026
Employment Type : Fixed Term - Full Time

Job number : 120247
Contact Email : [email protected]