Quality Assurance and Test; QAT) Analyst

Job Title:

Quality Assurance & Test (QAT) Analyst

Salary: £51,400 - £68,800

Location:

Cambridge/hybrid with 40-60% of time in the office

Contract:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time, 35 hours per week

Are you passionate about quality and delivering reliable solutions in a high-stakes environment?

Join Cambridge University Press & Assessment as a QAT Analyst and play a key role in shaping how quality assurance and testing are delivered across our Exam Technology Organisation (ETO).

This is an exciting opportunity to help drive the adoption of modern QA practices, including AI-enabled testing, automation, shift-left approaches and continuous improvement initiatives. Working across multiple delivery teams, you will help ensure that quality remains at the heart of everything we deliver, supporting systems and services that impact learners and educators around the world.

As a QAT Analyst within our Exam Assurance team, you will be responsible for embedding and assuring Quality Assurance and Testing (QAT) standards, practices and tooling across high-stakes delivery teams.

Working closely with Product Owners, Engineering Leads, Solution Area teams and third-party delivery partners, you will act as a trusted advisor on quality, helping teams adopt consistent testing approaches, improve delivery outcomes and reduce risk.

You will play a central role in translating QA strategy into practical delivery activities, ensuring quality standards, governance requirements and modern testing practices are effectively embedded across both project and business-as-usual delivery.

• Embed QAT strategy, standards and tooling within delivery teams.
• Ensure consistent testing approaches across System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and BAU activities.
• Drive adoption of risk-based, shift-left and modern QA practices.
• Support implementation of AI-enabled testing and test automation solutions.
• Identify opportunities to improve quality, increase test coverage and reduce manual effort.
• Define, monitor and report on QA metrics and KPIs.
• Provide insight into defects, quality trends, coverage gaps and delivery risks.
• Collaborate with third-party suppliers to ensure alignment to QA standards and ways of working.
• Support governance, audit and compliance activities, including adherence to regulatory requirements.
• Contribute to the development of the wider QAT community through mentoring, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement initiatives.

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to influence quality practices at scale while working with modern technologies and delivery approaches in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment.

This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the successful candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. In addition to our hybrid working principles, flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment.

You are an experienced QA professional who is passionate about quality engineering and continuous improvement. You are comfortable working across multiple delivery teams, influencing stakeholders without direct authority and helping teams adopt effective testing practices.

You bring strong analytical skills, a pragmatic approach to problem solving and a desire to help teams deliver high-quality outcomes in complex environments.

• Strong experience delivering QA and testing activities within Agile delivery environments.
• Experience across functional and non-functional testing disciplines.
• Hands-on experience with test automation and modern testing tools.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and continuous testing approaches.
• Experience of risk-based testing and test lifecycle management.
• Ability to analyse quality data and provide meaningful insights and recommendations.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience working across multiple teams and competing priorities.

• Experience with AI-enabled QA and testing tools.
• Experience implementing shift-left testing approaches.
• Knowledge of test data management solutions.
• Experience working with third-party suppliers and outsourced testing services.
• Experience with in highly regulated or compliance-driven environments.
• Experience mentoring or coaching QA practitioners.

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical, dental and…