What’s happening at PwC?
As part of PwC’s global strategy, The New Equation, we’re investing significantly in skills, capabilities and technologies to address the breadth and complexity of the challenges that our clients face with their businesses and in society. One of our responses to this was establishing Tech Central, a technology focused function working alongside other PwC teams.
What’s happening in the function?
Tech Central is rapidly growing and the environment that our people work in is fueled by ingenuity, collaboration and innovation. Our people are skilled and passionate about the work they do. As part of the team you’ll experience an environment consisting of a wide range of technologies with ample room for you to learn, grow and innovate.
About the team
This role offers the exciting opportunity to join a rapidly growing Test Engineering function at PwC. We are responsible for the automated testing of new & existing products across the firm & for our clients. Your role will include transferring your knowledge of Test Engineering practices and approaches into product teams as well as bringing experience in key Test Automation processes & tooling and partnering with other members of the product team to solve technical challenges along the way.
Job Skills
Champion quality engineering practices within the team throughout the design, development, delivery and support of products
Collaborate with developers and other members of the team to ensure all aspects of testing (functional and non functional) are carried out as required. For example:
API Testing
Performance Testing
Security Testing
Encourage everyone (Developers, Agile Delivery Managers, Product Managers) to think about how quality is defined and measured
Bring ideas & innovations to the team through sharing knowledge of testing best practices, examining new tools & techniques within the wider industry
Be able to provide stakeholders with high level metrics on product quality and usage
Work with DevOps engineers to embed practices in the team which enable consistent, predictable, fully tested deployments
Help build and continually improve the ‘way of working’ for the development team to ensure consistent delivery
Actively work to identify and help remove or mitigate impediments to agile development and testing
Related Expertise
Ability to analyse, debug and optimise code
Knowledge of software testing best practices and approaches
Experience in one or more coding / scripting language
Experience running & automating testing of software products on cloud infrastructure
Experience in agile testing approaches, frameworks and implementations
