About this role
Fixed term for 13 months
Full time – 37 hours per week
Closing date: 15/11/2026 at 23:30
The role
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.
The department
Infrastructure, Strategy and Change / Digital Technology Service
Our Digital Technology Service (DTS) has been configured not only to deliver excellent IT services, but also to drive major IT development and change. It is a large service focused on enabling, implementing, and supporting a wide range of technology to meet the needs of the University community. This technology must be affordable, high quality, resilient and meet a broad range of needs.
DTS is made up of a Digital Architecture team and a large Digital Strategy area, which includes Digital Delivery (Applications; Cloud, Networks, and Infrastructure), IT Support and Digital Change. The service is located across two centrally located buildings on our City Centre campus.
DTS works within a unified professional services model, ensuring that we can take a consistent and coherent approach to technology across the university. We work in partnership with other professional service areas such as Transformation, Student & Academic Services, and Estates & Facilities, and engage external expertise as necessary.