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BDO Hiring for Software Tester Job at Reading, England Full Time
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Ideas | People | Trust
We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions businesses need to navigate today’s changing world.
We’ll broaden your horizons
The purpose of this role is to work in the Global Technology Services team as a Software Tester experienced in testing processes and procedures to work on our Global Payroll Systems. It is your role to ensure it works exactly as the requirements adhering to best practice. By working closely with the test and programme managers you will be able to understand what the product is meant to do and carry out tasks such as functional testing, customer scenario testing, stress testing, performance testing and scalability.
We’ll help you succeed
Principal Responsibilities:
- Review and analyse system specifications/change requirements
- Meet with system users to clarify requirements
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Responsible for:
- preparation of test scripts for quality assurance (QA) and user acceptance testing (UAT) ensuring the definition of the required result is clearly specified
- data conversion testing
- preparation of test data, including undertaking data loading as required, for parallel testing and other test cycles as required
- Testing the expected solution in the application and identify areas the expected result is different ensuring test policies and procedures are adhered to
- Write bug and error reports for development teams
- Track all anomalies and errors in the test log, illustrating how these issues were fixed during the parallel tests or in production
- Establish Test Execution Status Reports and Test Summary Reports
- Ensure the Test/Programme Manager are updated with the status on testing activities, issues, risks and escalating issues as appropriate
- Work within a team to successfully deliver testing related tasks on time and with the highest quality possible
- Design tests to mitigate risk and automate testing
- Assist with the maintenance of planning, tracking, reporting, quality management, and communication documentation
- Participate in testing activities on multiple projects, researching and troubleshooting issues identified in testing and communicating resolutions and workarounds to team members
- Share knowledge and skills to achieve goals and facilitate issue resolution
- Contribute to the enhancement of test related documentation on standards and systems
- Supporting and where necessary coordinating and presenting user training and training materials
When you join us, we’ll make your growth our priority. If you can demonstrate the following skills, we can help you go far. We’re looking for someone with:
Technical Requirements and professional qualifications:
- Extensive knowledge of software testing practices and planning (essential)
- Proven experience as a tester or similar role (essential)
- Previous experience writing test scripts and documentation (essential)
- Salesforce knowledge (desirable)
- Automated testing tools knowledge (desirable)
- Understanding of Software Implementation or development life cycle (essential)
- Experienced in understanding file structures including CSV, flat and XML files (essential)
- MS Office including comprehensive Excel experience (essential)
- SharePoint (desirable)
- Experience of import/export of data into systems to carry out such work (essential)
- Must be capable of working with remotely located colleagues and clients using tools such as WebEx and Teams (essential)
- Understanding and experience of payroll (desirable)
Attributes:
- Strong on written and verbal communication skills to effectively work within the organisation on testing matters in business English to produce test scripts, error reports and other documentation
- Able to demonstrate a minimum of 2 years carrying out testing in an IT environment, including writing and executing tests and scenarios utilising various types of specifications
- Experienced in testing concepts, principles and methodologies
- Able to provide tactful, insightful feedback to maintain a good working relationship with other members of the team
- A great problem solver with an analytical mind, the ability to work in a team and individually
- Organised to plan, prioritise, and carry out several complex activities simultaneously while working under pressure to meet tight deadlines while maintaining attention to detail
- Able to work in a fast paced environment with little supervision, owning tasks and following them through to completion
- Keen to take on new responsibilities and technologies
- Familiar with agile frameworks and QA methodology
We’re in it together
At BDO, we believe that when our people feel valued and rewarded, their potential is unlimited. We offer highly competitive starting salaries and review renumeration packages regularly to ensure that our pay always positively reflects performance. As well offering support with tuition and professional qualifications, we also provide the following benefits, as standard:
- 25 days’ holiday;
- access to a personal pension scheme, with matched employer contributions;
- life assurance cover;
- and income protection insurance.
That’s not all. We understand that everyone is different so, we offer a range of voluntary benefits to suit every lifestyle. Our flexible benefits platform, Flexcel, means our people can choose from a range of tax efficient options to design a benefit package that best suits them. Through Flexcel, they can:
- buy up to ten days’ extra holiday;
- add on private medical, personal accident, dental insurance or travel insurance;
- enrol in our Bike to Work scheme;
- receive an interest free season ticket loan or interest free graduate loan;
- take an online health assessment and utilise our employee assistance programme.
Agile working at BDO (Workable)
- WORKABLE is our approach to making working at BDO work for everyone. It’s a framework – including policies, guidance, tools, resources, and support – that offers flexibility and choice around how, when and where we do our work. WORKABLE gives BDO people the freedom they need to be able to work at their best. Because sometimes, the hub is the best environment to get things done, and sometimes we’re more productive working from home: WORKABLE gives us that choice.
- We aim to offer you more choice and flexibility to plan around work and life, which can lead to improved wellbeing, access to more diverse projects and learning opportunities and increased job satisfaction.
We’re looking forward to the future
At BDO, we’re big enough to make the difference and collaborative enough to never lose sight of where we’re going. We know that it’s our people that make our success possible. Across our 17 UK locations, more than 6,000 of them work together to provide tax, audit, assurance and a range of advisory services that help our clients achieve their ambitious goals. Together, they’re fuelling Britain’s economic engine. Behind every complex client challenge and every untapped innovation, they’re there: ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. That’s why we’re always looking for ways to invest in our people. That means providing them with an environment where they can grow, learn, laugh and feel respected, at all times.
Are you ready to join them?