Quality Engineering - Experienced Associate

Industry/Sector
Not Applicable
Specialism
Product Innovation
Management Level
Associate
Job Description & Summary
A career in Software and Product Innovation will provide you with the opportunity to deliver innovative solutions that are valuable, usable, and aligned with accomplishing the company's mission. We help build software and design data platforms, manage large volumes of client data, develop compliance procedures for data management, and continually research new technologies to drive innovation and sustainable change. You will manage products through initial launch and follow-on releases, identifying dependencies and clearing blockers.
As part of our Quality Engineering team, you'll help with testing management, strategy development, execution, and data analysis to enhance our clients enterprise technology.
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 an authentic and inclusive leader, at all grades/levels and in all lines of service. 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 provide evidence-based feedback in a timely and constructive manner.
• Share and collaborate effectively with others.
• Work with existing processes/systems whilst making constructive suggestions for improvements.
• Validate data and analysis for accuracy and relevance.
• Follow risk management and compliance procedures.
• Keep up-to-date with technical developments for business area.
• Communicate confidently in a clear, concise and articulate manner - verbally and in written form.
• Seek opportunities to learn about other cultures and other parts of the business across the Network of PwC firms.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct

Basic Qualifications:
Minimum Degree Required:
Bachelor Degree
Additional Educational Requirements:
Bachelor's degree or in lieu of a degree, demonstrating three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible work experience in technology for each missing year of college.
Minimum Years of Experience:
1 year(s)
Preferred Qualifications:
Preferred Fields of Study:
Computer and Information Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Systems Analysis, Data Processing/Analytics/Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems
Certification(s) Preferred:
ISTQB, CSQA/CSQE or equivalent certifications
Preferred Knowledge/Skills:
Demonstrates some abilities and/or a proven record of success in the following areas:

• Advocating and upholding the standards, industry-leading practices and protocols outlined in the quality assurance and testing framework;
• Participating actively in reviews of user stories (functional and technical), identifying and helping to bridge gaps in requirements, particularly around use-cases and workflows (e.g. considers happy path, alternate paths, user-error, system-error workflows);
• Working closely with the Product Managers to obtain a thorough understanding of the application and the business being supported by the application;
• Conducting test planning, test design, test execution, and bug management;
• Conducting sanity, smoke, functional, integration, regression testing;
• Tracking bugs to resolution across all supported environments;
• Testing for front-end/GUI, APIs, Backend testing using SQL queries;
• Automating and maintaining Smoke, Functional, API, Integration, Regression tests;
• Collaborating with the DevOps engineering team to confirm integration of the automated test suite into the CI/CD pipeline;
• Communicating dependencies, risks, constraints to the team and actively seeking resolution;
• Working within Cloud computing platforms such as AWS, GCP and Azure;
• Working as part of Scrum/ Kanban Agile teams in a multi-pod fast paced environment;
• Working with team members across multiple locations/time zones; and,
• Inspecting and testing processes and products to determine they meet or exceed standards.

Travel Requirements
Up to 60%
Job Posting End Date
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