Quality Assurance and Test (QAT) Analyst Full Time NEW

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.

About the role

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.

Additional responsibilities and accountabilities:

• 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.

About You

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.

Essential requirements

• 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.

Desirable requirements

• 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 within highly regulated or compliance-driven environments.
• Experience mentoring or coaching QA practitioners.

For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a world-class flexible rewards package, including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical, dental and permanent health insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be 27 September 2026.  We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place on/from 28 September 2026.

As part of the application process please respond to the 3 questions, with your cv and cover letter

If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect:

• First-stage interview via Microsoft Teams, including a short presentation and discussion.
• Final-stage interview with key stakeholders.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter. 

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.