Line of Service
Advisory
Industry/Sector
Not Applicable
Specialism
Customer
Management Level
Associate
Job Description & Summary
A career in our Technology Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world’s largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.
As a member of the team, you’ll work with clients to define their vision and plan how to get there. We deliver the technological solutions organisations need to compete and grow and build a lasting legacy of improvement and performance, partnering with best in class technologies and solution sets. In joining, you’ll help our clients understand and evolve the way they align Information Technology with their business strategy, create integrated end to end solutions, and use enterprise applications to solve complex business problems.
To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.
As an Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:
- Invite and give in the moment feedback in a constructive manner.
- Share and collaborate effectively with others.
- Identify and make suggestions for improvements when problems and/or opportunities arise.
- Handle, manipulate and analyse data and information responsibly.
- Follow risk management and compliance procedures.
- Keep up-to-date with developments in area of specialism.
- Communicate confidently in a clear, concise and articulate manner - verbally and in the materials I produce.
- Build and maintain an internal and external network.
- Seek opportunities to learn about how PwC works as a global network of firms.
- Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
About the Role
We have a number of exciting opportunities across a range of roles and disciplines to join our expanding Guidewire/Insurance team. As a Guidewire Test Analyst you will be responsible for participating in business requirements review meetings and providing test strategies and scenarios to ensure coverage of requirements for all functionality to be implemented on Guidewire projects.
Estimate the test execution, defect management, test automation, and user acceptance effort during sprint planning meetings.
What will you do?
- Develop Test plans, approach and scoping.
- Establish and implement an approach for managing test data.
- Analyse requirements to ensure completeness of test cases.
- Develop test scenarios that reflect the capabilities being established in projects.
- Work with the Business Analyst to establish proper test coverage and traceability to requirements.
- Develop test cases with a view to ensure end-to-end functional coverage, as well as potential impact areas for regression.
- Execute testing, including test preparation and execution, test data creation, and analysis of test results.
- Provide test coverage and clearance feedback.
- Analyse test failures and work with the development team to address defects.
- Develop automation test scripts that are to the high performing technical standards and created using Guidewire best practices.
- Work with Business Analyst to assist and monitor User Acceptance Testing.
- Participate in daily standup meetings, sprint planning and retrospective.
- Participate in POC to support new opportunities.
- Guide and mentor junior testers.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of requirements and software quality processes.
What are we looking for?
- 2 plus years Testing in Automation testing skills / Selenium / Katalon / GT-UI & GT-API.
- Web services testing / API testing skills is a plus.
- Database testing knowledge is a plus.
- DataHub and InfoCenter knowledge is a plus.
- Experience in functional and non-functional (performance, security, regulatory and compliance) testing.
- Knowledge of Software Quality Assurance across the SDLC.
- Understanding of the use of Test Metrics to support risk assessment and decision making.
- Experience in Requirements Management, Test Management and Defect Management tools, like Jira and Xray.
- Knowledge of the AGILE methodology/Scaled Agile Framework, SDLC processes will be an added advantage.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
What’s in it for you?
We're exceptionally passionate about providing you with the necessary skills, experience and training to help you develop both personally and professionally. As a PwC employee you will be included on our specific Operate training framework, tailored to match your skills, needs and career aspirations.
Fully funded by us, you'll complete externally accredited qualifications that will benefit you in the role you are working in.
In addition to the client projects and training, our employees are also rewarded with various others as part of your employment.
- Competitive salary plus a potential discretionary bonus (performance related).
- 25 days standard holiday pro rata, with options to increase this through your benefits package.
- 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.
Travel Requirements
Up to 20%
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
No
Government Clearance Required?
Yes
Job Posting End Date
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