PwC Hiring for Test Engineer Job at London, England Full Time

A career in Client Implementation and Execution, within Client Service Support services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients transform their customer service and engagements from cost centres into revenue generating businesses across all PwC lines of service. In joining, you’ll help clients develop and implement a customer service and engagement strategy that is aligned with their customer experience strategy, enhancing customer engagement while lowering costs, and optimising operations to ensure they are getting the most value possible.

Who we are

PwC’s Operate delivers operational and managed services solutions to clients across a range of situations often associated with their regulatory, risk and/or compliance agendas. We bring together regulatory insight, highly skilled operational resource and an unrivalled technology offering to provide a high quality and cost-effective solution to operational delivery challenges. Our capabilities stretch across a number of business pillars including Financial Crime Operations, Compliance Operations, Change Management and Customer Management. We have almost 1,300 people located in our purpose built, secure delivery centre in Belfast; across our regional offices in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh; and on a range of client sites.

About the role

Our Test Practice within Technical Solutions is experiencing continuous success and growth. As part of this growth, we are seeking to recruit a Test Engineer to work with our internal and external facing Scrum teams deliver manual and automation testing expertise for several our external clients.

Each engagement is different, but typically you can expect to be working on the following:

• Champion quality engineering practices through the definition, build and test phases of each programme.
• Deliver techniques that derive high quality software including branching strategies and lead on delivering the automation testing effort on a range of projects and programme using Agile based methodologies.
• T-Shaped capability with the ability support development and support teams.
• Strong expertise in delivering TDD/BDD capability on behalf on programme level scrum teams.

• Definition of standard and lean test documentation associated with automation.
• Participation in Sprint planning and 3 Amigos meetings and promotion of Shift Left techniques.
• Introducing/suggesting new processes and techniques to enhance the current automation process.
• Active participation in scrums, daily stand ups and retrospectives ensuring regular improvement in internal test processes.
• Strong experience of delivering API, Performance and UI testing.
• Mentoring of junior test team members.

Who we are looking for?

Essential Criteria

• Previous experience in delivering in agile based programmes preferably via Agile frameworks.
• Ability to analyse end to end solutions and identify opportunities for automation.
• Previous experience working in the Insurance and Banking sectors as a Test Engineer.
• Strong background in API, performance and UI automation testing.
• Experience of working in automation-based testing teams in multi-technology transformation projects.
• Experience of tools including DevOps, Jira Java, Maven, Selenium, Splunk, Slack, GitHub, Jenkins and Postman.
• Previous experience in defining test approach and standards.
• Flexible, independent and self-motivated.
• Experience in supporting team success and motivating others to keep morale and performance high.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Strong experience of iterative / incremental software delivery.
• Experience of working in fast paced environments to strict deadlines.
• Bachelor’s Degree or HNC in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience.
• ISTQB Foundation, Intermediate or Advanced Certification desirable.

What’s in it for you?

The role will be varied and challenging, providing you with an opportunity to work with a wide variety of high-profile clients. We’re also exceptionally passionate about providing you with the necessary skills, experience and training to help you develop both personally and professionally.

In addition to the client projects and training, our employees are also rewarded with various other benefits offered as part of your employment:

• Our dedicated internal Careers Service.
• Competitive salary plus a potential discretionary bonus (performance related)
• 25 days standard holiday pro rata, with options to increase this through your benefits package
• A flexible benefits scheme that can be tailored to suit your (and your family’s) needs. Provision of a group pension plan with additional funding provided by PwC.

Not the role for you?
Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work (ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

The skills we look for in future employees
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Learn more here: www.pwc.com/uk/careers/experienced/apply

The Deal
We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have ‘The Deal’.

Find out more about our firmwide Employee Value Proposition: https://www.pwc.co.uk/careers/about-us/the-new-deal.html

Diversity
Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion.

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.

www.pwc.com/uk/diversity