Test Analyst (12 Month FTC)
The National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) is a brand new workplace pension scheme. It’s been designed around the needs of employers and workers and offers a low-cost, easy to use way to save for retirement.
We champion:
- Easy online access.
- Clear communications.
- High quality governance.
- Award winning investment strategy.
NEST Corporation is the Trustee of the scheme and is a non-departmental public body independent of government but accountable to Parliament through the Department of Work and Pensions.
We work with the best outsourcing partners to deliver the scheme. Our employees are highly experienced coming from both public sector private enterprise and combine a wealth of relevant commercial experience with a passion to bring a bold new vision to workplace pensions.
Departmental overview
The Testing and Assurance Department is responsible for ensuring
- contracted suppliers deliver appropriate solutions that meet NEST’s requirements, including the technical aspects of those solutions such as scalability, resilience and recovery.
- support and oversight of supplier testing processes, execution of user acceptance testing of the supplier solution and quality assurance.
- contracted suppliers implement those solutions using appropriate methodologies and technologies in-line with an agreed project plan, including key milestones, active management and mitigation of associated risks and issues.
- appropriate suppliers are contracted to provide the supporting services, focusing on the technical aspects and implementation capability of those suppliers, including participation in supplier evaluation and procurement processes.
Role overview
In order to ensure the services provided meet the contracted requirements, a period of in-depth testing and validation is required in order to satisfy a number of key questions.
Role deliverables
The successful candidate will have responsibility for the following deliverables and activities:
- Supporting design and execution of implementation test plans and scenarios across multiple suppliers.
- Interacting with suppliers and subject matter experts to verify that the requirements, roles and test responsibilities across suppliers are clearly understood.
- Supporting integration testing and user acceptance testing across multiple suppliers.
- Support evaluation and analysis of supplier processes, solutions and tools.
- Conducting static reviews of documents and products.
- Testing across multiple suppliers.
Candidate requirements
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following experience:
- Testing experience and expertise, gained from large complex IT programmes, which may be supported by formal testing qualifications.
- Experience in IT delivery within Financial Services
- Working knowledge of pension services desirable.
- Strong background in software development methodologies, especially requirements management, and software phase management.
- Project life-cycles methodologies, project components, documentation and standards.
- Strong interest in Quality Assurance and process/service improvement.
- Experience in a Test Analyst role across integration and user acceptance test phases.
The successful candidate will have the following skills and education:
- Degree qualified, or tertiary education, within Business, IT, numerate or science subject.
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following personal attributes:
- Excellent work ethic including time management, ability to work to very tight deadlines, excellent project reporting and planning.
- Problem solving skills and flexible nature, showing adaptability to situations.
- Comfortable working in a highly challenging and ever changing environment and supporting experienced technical professionals.
- Self-starter who is comfortable taking personal responsibility for resolving issues in a complex, multi-streamed programme.
Conclusion
The Testing and Assurance department has the responsibility to deliver NEST, a pension scheme designed to help millions of people save for their retirement.
The successful candidate will gain exceptional experience within a large supplier based implementation programme and will be instrumental in ensuring that the scheme is able to operate as envisaged, earning the trust of the millions of low-to-moderate earners it exists to serve.
This is a highly demanding but equally rewarding post. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with, and learn from a friendly, supportive, experienced, qualified and extremely professional team.
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