Quality Engineering Manager

General information

Reference

002196  

Publication start date

07/04/2026

Publication end date

10/04/2026

Post Description

Quality Engineering Manager

Vacancy location

Location

South West, Gloucestershire, Rosehill - Hybrid

Vacancy details

Job Profile

Digital Services - QA and Test Team

Title

Quality Engineering Manager

Contract Type

Full Time

About us

About UCAS

UCAS is at the heart of connecting people to higher education.

 

UCAS is the world’s leading shared admissions service for higher education. We provide application services for UK universities and colleges as well as delivering a wide range of research, consultancy and advisory services to schools, colleges, careers services, professional bodies and employers.

 

We’re a successful and fast-growing organisation, which helps hundreds of thousands of people every year. We're committed to delivering a first-class service to all of our customers — they're at the heart of everything we do.

Business Unit description

The Digital Services business unit is at the heart of UCAS’ technical innovation, data and infrastructure. It focuses on leveraging data science, technology, and enterprise architecture to enhance UCAS' digital products and services.

 

The unit is dedicated to developing and improving customer-centric digital solutions, ensuring seamless and secure online experiences for all users. By providing insightful data and analysis, often made available to anyone with free-to-use intuitive dashboard, Digital Services empowers the Higher Education sector and those interested in the sector with valuable information to make informed decisions. By working in collaborative, expert led, multi-disciplinary teams, Digital Services drives UCAS’ mission to connect students with their next opportunities through advanced technological solutions.

About the role

Contractual Hours

35.00

About the role

As a member of the Product Engineering Leadership team, the Quality engineering role will lead the technical testing aspects of the QA strategy, serving as the technical authority for quality engineering, reliability, and testability across the admissions transformation programme.

Working with Architecture, Platform engineering and MDTs to create reference architectures, guardrails, and golden paths for test automation, CI/CD, quality gates, observability, and resilience—ensuring quality is engineered into system and platform design, not bolted on.

Leading small technically focused team of Quality engineers to adopt an automation first strategy for all Quality Assurance assets on the programme and working with strategic partners to deliver high quality, resilient and scalable products and services in line with the programme plan.

Working in tandem with the existing Quality Assurance team to ensure a cohesive, collaborative over-arching QA/QE strategy drives quality across all UCAS products and services.

 

Key accountabilities:

• Acts as the technical authority for Quality and Reliability for the Admissions Transformation programme


• Accountable for producing the overall QA strategy for the programme


• Lead a team of 3-5 quality engineers to build automation assets and execute the QA plans for the programme, reporting on progress using appropriate DORA metrics

 

 

For more information about this role please see the attached role profile.

Skills, qualifications, and experience

• Significant demonstrable experience (5+ yrs) in a similar management and leadership position with specific emphasis on establishing and building Quality Engineering practices


• Broad experience in all aspects of quality engineering, automation, planning, execution and reporting across the whole product development lifecycle (design through to post implementation)


• Experience of line management of a team of technical Quality engineers/SDETs


• Experience of working as part a software/product engineering leadership team


• Passionate about the technical engineering aspects of Qu