Test Engineer

Our purpose focuses on how we contribute to society, and how our business decisions can contribute to greater trust and solving important problems. In order to achieve our purpose and deliver a first-class service to our clients, we need first-class support internally. The people who power us - our internal teams - have a vital role to make sure we have all the right resources, services and technology to be the best we can be. Not all of us work directly with external clients.

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