Test and Reliability Team Lead

Test Team Lead South Cambridgeshire | 5 days On-site Up to £50k + benefits Are you an experienced hardware test engineer who wants to start their journey towards management? Maybe you're already seen as a team mentor? We are on the look-out for a hands-on Lead Test & Reliability Engineer to join a well-established UK engineering business designing and manufacturing sensor products used globally in safety-critical applications. This role sits at the heart of product development. You’ll lead reliability, verification, and validation testing across both existing and next-generation hardware, while staying close to the lab and the detail. It’s a mix of technical leadership, practical testing, and problem solving. The role: Lead and coordinate reliability, verification, and validation activities Design and execute environmental, lifetime, and system-level tests Develop test plans, methods, and clear technical reports Carry out failure analysis and reliability investigations Design and maintain bespoke test rigs and infrastructure Use Python to control test equipment, analyse data, and visualise results Work closely with R&D, product development, manufacturing, and quality Manage test priorities and internal resources What you bring: Experience in product development or manufacturing Strong understanding of reliability, environmental, and lifetime testing Systems reliability experience (hardware and firmware) Confident working hands-on with lab equipment Experience scripting in Python, LabVIEW, or similar Nice to have: statistical or reliability data analysis Nice to have: exposure to formal quality systems or Six Sigma Nice to have: knowledge of gas sensing, VOCs, or analytical instrumentation