Director of Testing – Engineering
Riverlane
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Cambridge • United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £125,000 - £150,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Own the QA strategy across engineering, ensuring rigorous verification, testing, and validation of hardware and software products.
- Coordinate and oversee testing, verification, and validation plans across multiple teams.
- Drive hiring plans to scale a high-performing QA and test organisation.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support verification and testing initiatives and provide guidance on validation activities.
- Implement best practices, processes, and frameworks for testing across the company, that ensure robust, scalable, and reliable products.
- Act as a technical and strategic leader in a matrixed, fast-moving environment, influencing product design, development timelines, and release readiness.
- Provide mentorship and leadership to engineering managers and individual contributors within testing teams.
Requirements
- Significant experience in QA, verification, and testing within semiconductor companies.
- Strong understanding of verification and testing methodologies; experience with validation is a plus.
- Proven track record of leading multiple teams in a matrixed organisation.
- Experience in hiring, developing, high performing technical teams.
- Strategic thinker with excellent communication skills, able to influence across technical and business stakeholders.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth scale-up environment.
- Exceptional communication and organisational skills
- Highly motivated with enthusiasm and commitment to achieve ambitious targets
- A resilient problem-solver, comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change
- Excitement to be part of a category-defining quantum computing company with a global mission to enable utility scale quantum computing
- Even better if…
- You have experience with validation
Benefits
- A comprehensive benefits package that includes an annual bonus plan, private medical insurance, life insurance, and a contributory pension scheme
- Equity, so that our team can share in the long-term success of Riverlane
- 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and enhanced family leave
- A diverse work environment that brings together experts in many fields (including software and hardware development, quantum information theory, physics and maths) and over 20 different nationalities
- A learning environment that encourages individual, team and company growth and development, including a regular programme of learning events and training and conference budgets
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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