At PwC, our people in software and product innovation focus on developing cutting-edge software solutions and driving product innovation to meet the evolving needs of clients. These individuals combine technical experience with creative thinking to deliver innovative software products and solutions. In testing and quality assurance at PwC, you will focus on the process of evaluating a system or software application to identify any defects, errors, or gaps in its functionality. Working in this area, you will execute various test cases and scenarios to validate that the system meets the specified requirements and performs as expected.Growing as a strategic advisor, you leverage your influence, expertise, and network to deliver quality results. You motivate and coach others, coming together to solve complex problems. As you increase in autonomy, you apply sound judgment, recognising when to take action and when to escalate. You are expected to solve through complexity, ask thoughtful questions, and clearly communicate how things fit together. Your ability to develop and sustain high performing, diverse, and inclusive teams, and your commitment to excellence, contributes to the success of our Firm.
Skills
Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
- Craft and convey clear, impactful and engaging messages that tell a holistic story.
- Apply systems thinking to identify underlying problems and/or opportunities.
- Validate outcomes with clients, share alternative perspectives, and act on client feedback.
- Direct the team through complexity, demonstrating composure through ambiguous, challenging and uncertain situations.
- Deepen and evolve your expertise with a focus on staying relevant.
- Initiate open and honest coaching conversations at all levels.
- Make difficult decisions and take action to resolve issues hindering team effectiveness.
- Model and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.
Job Summary
A career in our Managed Services team will provide you an opportunity to collaborate with a wide array of teams to help our clients implement and operate new capabilities, achieve operational efficiencies, and harness the power of technology. Our Testing Managed Services team bring a unique combination of industry expertise, technology, data management and managed services experience to create sustained outcomes for our clients and improve business performance. We empower companies to transform their approach to analytics and insights while building your skills in exciting new directions. Have a voice at our table to help design, build and operate the next generation of software and services that manage interactions across all aspects of the value chain.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.
Responsibilities
As a Test Architect in the Managed Services Platform, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy through execution and beyond. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this level include but are not limited to:
- Creating and presenting storyboards to outline the test response in the proposals
- Creating outline Test Strategies, including specification of all standards, methods, processes and tools to be used
- Build next generation Test Framework using latest technologies
- Provides Technical Leadership and Strategic Direction to the Testing Organization
- Lead a team of technical engineers on evaluating new tools and automation technologies along with evaluation report
- Identify Quality Engineering and automation gaps and develop solutions for automation.
- Identify what tools and technologies should be implemented to support a CI/CD capability.
- Supporting Agile Testing Project and Kanban approach where applicable in achieving their strategic goals for the business and by providing technical support and mentoring to the team.
- Establish Test Environments Management and Test Data Management strategies and implement them for different testing activities.
- Review and design the architecture from quality, stability and performance standpoint.
- Develop process to track test environments required for QA
- Create short-term plans to deliver environments to support sprint-based development
- Coordinate activities of release engineers to automate the setup and configuration of test environments
- Ability to lead customer executive teams through structured test architecture
- Develop process to track test environments required for QA
- Communicate test environment availability to project management and quality assurance
- Develop KPIs to track efficacy of test environment delivery efforts
- Coordinate activities of release engineers to automate the setup and configuration of test environments
- Provide estimates for onboarding of new projects to test environments
- Design systems to support continuous delivery and adapt test environment management to support on-demand, self-service automation
- Forecast environment requirements based on anticipated future demand from multiple application development teams
Minimum Degree Required
: Bachelor Degree
Degree Preferred
: Bachelors in Computer Engineering
Minimum Years of Experience
: 15 year(s) of progressive roles managing IT quality assurance and control within software/systems development processes
Certifications Required
: NA
Certifications Preferred
: PMP, Agile Certification (Nice to have)
Required Knowledge/Skills
Preferred Knowledge/Skills
Demonstrates extensive knowledge and/or a proven record of success in the following areas:
- 12+ years of experience in testing or development with solid understanding of the software development lifecycle
- Deep knowledge of Application architecture.
- Knowledge and delivery experience of one of more of technologies such as Microservices, Rest API's, Mobile & Cloud.
- Good knowledge in scripting with Test Automation Tools like Selenium, Cucumber, Protractor, SOAP UI, MF UFT, Test Complete, Work soft, Tosca, UI Path
- Knowledge and delivery experience of modern delivery methodologies such as Behavior Driven Development , Technical Driven Development, DevOps, Lean, Agile
- Should have good performance engineering skills and deep understanding of any of the following technologies Java, .Net, SQL, Oracle, PostGres.
- At least 5 years of experience working in Cloud (AWS), Agile, CI/CD, DevOps environments.
- Experience in writing queries against databases and data warehouses in Oracle or SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres, and Mongo DB.
- Strong written/oral communication skills, problem resolution, good judgment, presentation, and decision-making skills required
- Prior experience of development or testing for Cloud Services. Experience with testing services in AWS/Azure/Google Cloud is a big plus
- Significant experience across a number of broad technology disciplines, including domains such as digital transformation, application consolidation, infrastructure design & migration (including Cloud & Data Centre), software development, service integration, and data analytics.
- Hands on experience in building new Automation Solutions from the scratch
- Experience in integrating Test into the DevOps CI/CD Pipelines
- Expertise on scripting languages like Python and PowerShell
- Experience in Testing Infrastructure capabilities
