A career within Forensic Technology will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients protect their business in today’s evolving landscape by applying advanced and strategic approaches to information management. We focus on assisting organisations manage vast amounts of electronic data and navigate the legal and business processes demanded by critical events which includes litigation, regulatory requests and internal investigations.

We are seeking forensic technology specialists with existing experience in data capture to progress their career in forensic technology with us.

We focus on assisting organisations manage vast amounts of electronic data and navigate the legal and business processes demanded by critical events which includes litigation, regulatory requests and internal investigations.

About the team

PwC Senior Associates in the Digital Forensics & eDiscovery team have experience of helping clients in crisis. They apply cutting edge techniques to solve complex problems and apply smart data-driven solutions to our client’s issues. As part of our team, you could be detecting fraud, insider trading or employee misconduct, or working alongside lawyers on litigations and regulatory matters.

We are ready to respond to crisis events all over the world. We specialise in forensically capturing and understanding huge volumes of unstructured data such as e-mails, Office documents and instant chat messages which can be collected from computers, servers, the Cloud and smartphones or tablets. We rely on these data sources to answer questions like who spoke to whom? How well did these people know each other? What did a person know, and when?

You will work on multiple concurrent and high profile projects and work alongside recognised industry specialists in computer forensics, data analytics, information management, electronic discovery, and disclosure. You will develop your network and build strong relationships with clients and senior members of the team.

In the UK alone we have more than 65 technology practitioners working from dedicated secure forensic laboratories in Belfast, Birmingham, Leeds and London.

PwC UK is also home to one of three PwC & Google Innovation Labs. Along with New York and Sydney, we are now acknowledged as a global location where organisations can access the PwC and Google collaborative experience to co-create solutions to their digital and business challenges.

About the Role

In this role, you will be responsible for

• Leading the data scoping and capture parts of engagements, utilising your experience, applying best practice methodology and working directly with clients, their IT contacts / teams and third parties as necessary.
• Completing the necessary documentation to the appropriate standards.
• Updating and liaising with more senior team members appropriately.
• Coaching junior team members on data acquisition tools and techniques.
• Assisting with evidence and lab management.
• Remaining abreast of the latest developments affecting our work and researching and testing new tools and techniques.

Once a member of the Digital Forensics & eDiscovery team, you will also gain exposure to, and receive training in, other aspects of the EDRM such as data processing in Nuix, and data review in tools such as Relativity and Brainspace.

Requirements

If you are naturally inquisitive, confident in unexpected situations and enjoy solving problems, we would be interested in talking to you. Candidates should also be prepared to travel, as many of our opportunities will require team members to work at client sites across the UK or overseas. You will need

• A 2.1 degree or above in a Technology related discipline e.g. Computer Science, Software Engineering, Maths, Physics, Computer Forensics or Artificial Intelligence, or demonstrate that you have relevant work experience.
• Strong logical reasoning, attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
• To be technically minded, with knowledge of PC hardware (e.g. components, networks) and software (e.g. various operating systems).

In addition to the above, you will also need to have relevant work experience in Computer Forensics or eDiscovery, which could include experience of a number of the following

• Performing data scoping exercises to work with clients and their IT teams to discover and document the data landscape.
• Imaging desktop and laptop computers using one or more data collection tools, e.g. EnCase, FTK, and X-Ways, or using live imaging tools and techniques.
• Extraction of data from Cloud-based systems such as Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft Office 365, or Google Mail.
• Imaging servers, virtual servers, RAID arrays, NAS devices.
• Imaging mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets.
• Backup systems, including tape, virtual tape and virtual server backups.
• The eDiscovery process and in particular the skills to consult with clients on the data collection stage of the EDRM life cycle.
• Data query and programming languages, such as SQL, C#, VBA and/or Python.

Desirable

• EnCase Certified Examiner (EnCE), FTK ACE certification, Cellebrite Certified Mobile Examiner (CCME), or equivalent certifications.
• Wider experience of the eDiscovery process and EDRM would be advantageous.

About PwC

We’re one of the world’s leading professional services organisations. From 158 countries, we help our clients, some of the most successful organisations on the globe, as well as its most dynamic entrepreneurs and thriving private businesses, to create the value they want. We help to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

A career within Forensic Technology will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients protect their business in today’s evolving landscape by applying advanced and strategic approaches to information management. We focus on assisting organisations manage vast amounts of electronic data and navigate the legal and business processes demanded by critical events which includes litigation, regulatory requests and internal investigations.

We are seeking forensic technology specialists with existing experience in data capture to progress their career in forensic technology with us.

We focus on assisting organisations manage vast amounts of electronic data and navigate the legal and business processes demanded by critical events which includes litigation, regulatory requests and internal investigations.

About the team

PwC Senior Associates in the Digital Forensics & eDiscovery team have experience of helping clients in crisis. They apply cutting edge techniques to solve complex problems and apply smart data-driven solutions to our client’s issues. As part of our team, you could be detecting fraud, insider trading or employee misconduct, or working alongside lawyers on litigations and regulatory matters.

We are ready to respond to crisis events all over the world. We specialise in forensically capturing and understanding huge volumes of unstructured data such as e-mails, Office documents and instant chat messages which can be collected from computers, servers, the Cloud and smartphones or tablets. We rely on these data sources to answer questions like who spoke to whom? How well did these people know each other? What did a person know, and when?

You will work on multiple concurrent and high profile projects and work alongside recognised industry specialists in computer forensics, data analytics, information management, electronic discovery, and disclosure. You will develop your network and build strong relationships with clients and senior members of the team.

In the UK alone we have more than 65 technology practitioners working from dedicated secure forensic laboratories in Belfast, Birmingham, Leeds and London.

PwC UK is also home to one of three PwC & Google Innovation Labs. Along with New York and Sydney, we are now acknowledged as a global location where organisations can access the PwC and Google collaborative experience to co-create solutions to their digital and business challenges.

About the Role

In this role, you will be responsible for

• Leading the data scoping and capture parts of engagements, utilising your experience, applying best practice methodology and working directly with clients, their IT contacts / teams and third parties as necessary.
• Completing the necessary documentation to the appropriate standards.
• Updating and liaising with more senior team members appropriately.
• Coaching junior team members on data acquisition tools and techniques.
• Assisting with evidence and lab management.
• Remaining abreast of the latest developments affecting our work and researching and testing new tools and techniques.

Once a member of the Digital Forensics & eDiscovery team, you will also gain exposure to, and receive training in, other aspects of the EDRM such as data processing in Nuix, and data review in tools such as Relativity and Brainspace.

Requirements

If you are naturally inquisitive, confident in unexpected situations and enjoy solving problems, we would be interested in talking to you. Candidates should also be prepared to travel, as many of our opportunities will require team members to work at client sites across the UK or overseas. You will need

• A 2.1 degree or above in a Technology related discipline e.g. Computer Science, Software Engineering, Maths, Physics, Computer Forensics or Artificial Intelligence, or demonstrate that you have relevant work experience.
• Strong logical reasoning, attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
• To be technically minded, with knowledge of PC hardware (e.g. components, networks) and software (e.g. various operating systems).

In addition to the above, you will also need to have relevant work experience in Computer Forensics or eDiscovery, which could include experience of a number of the following

• Performing data scoping exercises to work with clients and their IT teams to discover and document the data landscape.
• Imaging desktop and laptop computers using one or more data collection tools, e.g. EnCase, FTK, and X-Ways, or using live imaging tools and techniques.
• Extraction of data from Cloud-based systems such as Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft Office 365, or Google Mail.
• Imaging servers, virtual servers, RAID arrays, NAS devices.
• Imaging mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets.
• Backup systems, including tape, virtual tape and virtual server backups.
• The eDiscovery process and in particular the skills to consult with clients on the data collection stage of the EDRM life cycle.
• Data query and programming languages, such as SQL, C#, VBA and/or Python.

Desirable

• EnCase Certified Examiner (EnCE), FTK ACE certification, Cellebrite Certified Mobile Examiner (CCME), or equivalent certifications.
• Wider experience of the eDiscovery process and EDRM would be advantageous.

About PwC

We’re one of the world’s leading professional services organisations. From 158 countries, we help our clients, some of the most successful organisations on the globe, as well as its most dynamic entrepreneurs and thriving private businesses, to create the value they want. We help to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

About the Team

The Clients and Markets Executive (CME) Commercial team is a small team within PwC focussed on driving commercial excellence across all areas of the business, and supporting the firm's commercial strategy of driving sustainable profitable growth. The Commercial team helps the firm to win profitable business through the development of appropriate pricing strategies, driving optimal negotiation outcomes and embedding commercial best practice, processes, knowledge and behaviours.

This is a highly visible and high profile role that will provide an opportunity to work closely with Senior Partners and Sales teams and develop a broad understanding of the commercial performance of the entire firm.

We are seeking a candidate to support the Commercial Director and the Clients and Markets Executive (CME) in driving commercial performance across PwC.

About the Role

The role of Commercial Deal Shaper and Negotiation Lead is a key appointment within the Commercial team. This is a great opportunity to work with high profile key stakeholders within PwC to help shape the future of how we win our work and deliver commercial best practice.

The successful candidate will have experience in a client facing role and be comfortable dealing with a wide range of stakeholders including high profile individuals both internally and externally. You’ll have good commercial awareness, strong business acumen and ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and change.

Working within the Commercial team you will be involved in

• Providing strategic commercial guidance and support to Partners and bid teams for large or commercially complex bids;
• Negotiating framework rate cards and commercial incentives at a client account level;
• Developing progressive pricing strategies for new product and service propositions including technology offerings;
• Improving commercial diligence in business as usual decisions;
• Developing the commercial acumen of our people through hands on collaboration and identification of skills gaps and training requirements to maximise commercial performance (e.g. negotiation skills, contingent fee modelling, technology pricing models);
• Identifying and sharing success stories across the firm to showcase our best commercial behaviours.
• Contributing to the development of a commercial centre of excellence for our people.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Proven commercial pricing and deal shaping expertise
• Negotiation strategy and execution capabilities
• Technology pricing expertise is highly desirable
• A solid background in commercial contracting principles
• Experience of working with client Procurement teams
• Strong financial, business and commercial acumen
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• An ability to challenge and influence a range of stakeholders in a commercial environment

Deals

Our Deals business is an exciting, fast-paced and an ever-growing business that focuses on deals and crisis situations for our clients. Collectively, we deal with the types of situations you hear about regularly in the news and we provide support, insight and analysis to the management, shareholders and financiers of business.

Not the role for you?

Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work ( ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

About the Team

The Clients and Markets Executive (CME) Commercial team is a small team within PwC focussed on driving commercial excellence across all areas of the business, and supporting the firm's commercial strategy of driving sustainable profitable growth. The Commercial team helps the firm to win profitable business through the development of appropriate pricing strategies, driving optimal negotiation outcomes and embedding commercial best practice, processes, knowledge and behaviours.

This is a highly visible and high profile role that will provide an opportunity to work closely with Senior Partners and Sales teams and develop a broad understanding of the commercial performance of the entire firm.

We are seeking a candidate to support the Commercial Director and the Clients and Markets Executive (CME) in driving commercial performance across PwC.

About the Role

The role of Commercial Deal Shaper and Negotiation Lead is a key appointment within the Commercial team. This is a great opportunity to work with high profile key stakeholders within PwC to help shape the future of how we win our work and deliver commercial best practice.

The successful candidate will have experience in a client facing role and be comfortable dealing with a wide range of stakeholders including high profile individuals both internally and externally. You’ll have good commercial awareness, strong business acumen and ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and change.

Working within the Commercial team you will be involved in

• Providing strategic commercial guidance and support to Partners and bid teams for large or commercially complex bids;
• Negotiating framework rate cards and commercial incentives at a client account level;
• Developing progressive pricing strategies for new product and service propositions including technology offerings;
• Improving commercial diligence in business as usual decisions;
• Developing the commercial acumen of our people through hands on collaboration and identification of skills gaps and training requirements to maximise commercial performance (e.g. negotiation skills, contingent fee modelling, technology pricing models);
• Identifying and sharing success stories across the firm to showcase our best commercial behaviours.
• Contributing to the development of a commercial centre of excellence for our people.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Proven commercial pricing and deal shaping expertise
• Negotiation strategy and execution capabilities
• Technology pricing expertise is highly desirable
• A solid background in commercial contracting principles
• Experience of working with client Procurement teams
• Strong financial, business and commercial acumen
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• An ability to challenge and influence a range of stakeholders in a commercial environment

Deals

Our Deals business is an exciting, fast-paced and an ever-growing business that focuses on deals and crisis situations for our clients. Collectively, we deal with the types of situations you hear about regularly in the news and we provide support, insight and analysis to the management, shareholders and financiers of business.

Not the role for you?

Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work ( ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

This short term business travel (STBT) role is based within the Global Immigration team. The team is responsible for various corporate clients' global immigration compliance.

Business travellers in particular can trigger certain risks to companies. This role is to support the STBT immigration compliance program. You will work closely with clients to ensure that their business traveller population are compliant from an immigration and EU posted worker directive perspective.

Your day to day role will include

• Supporting the implementation of PwC's STBT tool, myTrips, as a key immigration and PWD SME
• Leading knowledge update projects for immigration and PWD
• Supervising a team of STBT immigration consultants based in London, Belfast and Poland
• Assessing business travellers' trip details from an immigration and PWD perspective
• Keeping up-to-date with immigration and PWD regulations
• Own billing and reporting to clients, including pricing structures, debts
• Conducting internal and external STBT immigration / PWD training sessions
• Own client relationships
• Run client update calls and fully manage escalations
• Work with technology teams on technology updates

The ideal candidate for this role will have

• Global immigration knowledge (STBT immigration knowledge desirable)
• Experience of using relevant software packages i.e. excel, Powerpoint, Lotus Notes, Word, Visio
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent client skills
• Be digitally enabled

Ranked as a leading immigration service provider by Chambers, Legal 500 and Who's Who Legal, we are considered to be the market leaders in operational service provision and strategic advice. We have unequalled government liaison capabilities around the world, and are often invited to contribute to the formulation or testing of new immigration rules or legislation.

Tax

We help organisations and the people who run them answer the big business questions. How should we raise finance? Where should we be based? How should we reward our people? With some 3,300 experts whose expertise covers every conceivable area of taxation, we’re one of the UK’s leading tax practices.

Not the role for you?

Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work ( ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

This short term business travel (STBT) role is based within the Global Immigration team. The team is responsible for various corporate clients' global immigration compliance.

Business travellers in particular can trigger certain risks to companies. This role is to support the STBT immigration compliance program. You will work closely with clients to ensure that their business traveller population are compliant from an immigration and EU posted worker directive perspective.

Your day to day role will include

• Supporting the implementation of PwC's STBT tool, myTrips, as a key immigration and PWD SME
• Leading knowledge update projects for immigration and PWD
• Supervising a team of STBT immigration consultants based in London, Belfast and Poland
• Assessing business travellers' trip details from an immigration and PWD perspective
• Keeping up-to-date with immigration and PWD regulations
• Own billing and reporting to clients, including pricing structures, debts
• Conducting internal and external STBT immigration / PWD training sessions
• Own client relationships
• Run client update calls and fully manage escalations
• Work with technology teams on technology updates

The ideal candidate for this role will have

• Global immigration knowledge (STBT immigration knowledge desirable)
• Experience of using relevant software packages i.e. excel, Powerpoint, Lotus Notes, Word, Visio
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent client skills
• Be digitally enabled

Ranked as a leading immigration service provider by Chambers, Legal 500 and Who's Who Legal, we are considered to be the market leaders in operational service provision and strategic advice. We have unequalled government liaison capabilities around the world, and are often invited to contribute to the formulation or testing of new immigration rules or legislation.

Tax

We help organisations and the people who run them answer the big business questions. How should we raise finance? Where should we be based? How should we reward our people? With some 3,300 experts whose expertise covers every conceivable area of taxation, we’re one of the UK’s leading tax practices.

Not the role for you?

Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work ( ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

Who we are
PwC’s Operate delivers operational and managed services solutions to clients across a range of situations often associated with their regulatory, risk and/or compliance agendas. We bring together regulatory insight, highly skilled operational resource and an unrivalled technology offering to provide a high quality and cost effective solution to operational delivery challenges.

Our capabilities stretch across a number of business pillars including Financial Crime Operations, Compliance Operations, Change Management and Customer Management. We have almost 1,200 people located in our purpose built, secure delivery centre in Belfast; across our regional offices in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh; and on a range of client sites.

About the role

Our Change Management Technical Solutions is experiencing continuous success and growth. As part of this growth, we are seeking to recruit experienced Testers to work with our software development teams to provide QA support to the development teams to automate tests to guide development. Each project is different, but typically you can expect to be working on the following

• Requirements analysis and validation
• Defining and executing test strategies and scripts
• Ensuring requirements traceability
• Introducing/suggesting new processes and techniques
• Accurate recording and monitoring of issues
• Reviewing test environments configuration and processes to facilitate continuous improvement and maintenance of quality standards
• Providing test estimates
• Developing and updating automated test scripts to match requirements
• UX/UI testing / Regression testing
• Creating test plans, cases, and scripts based on business requirements and technical specifications
• Executing manual and automated testing cycles, coordinating efforts with external teams
• Documenting test results, and compiling results into consolidated high level reports

Who we are looking for Essential Criteria

• Experience as a Test Analyst
• Strong background in software integration and system testing
• Has led testing in multi-technology transformation projects
• Experience in driving script-writing and testing
• Experience in SIT Testing
• Experience in performance testing.
• Experience of automated testing (e.g, Selenium)
• Experience using HP QC / JIRA or comparable platforms
• Experience of defining test strategy / test approach
• Flexible, independent and self-motivated
• Experience in supporting team success and motivating others to keep morale and performance high
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Strong experience of iterative / incremental software delivery
• Knowledge of some test frameworks and solutions to manage complexity
• Experience of working in fast paced environments to strict deadlines
• Bachelor’s Degree or HNC in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• ISTQB Foundation Certification

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of testing ERP software, particularly, Oracle E-Business Suite.

Location

You will be based in Belfast, however as a result of the wide variety of clients and projects, you may be asked to work in other locations within the UK and beyond, sometimes at short notice and sometimes over lengthy periods of time. Your desire and ability to do this will be discussed as part of the recruitment process. Candidates who are unable or do not wish to work on projects in other locations will still be considered.

What’s in it for you?

The role will be varied and challenging, providing you with an opportunity to work with a wide variety of high profile clients. We’re also exceptionally passionate about providing you with the necessary skills, experience and training to help you develop both personally and professionally.

About PwC

We’re one of the world’s leading professional services organisations. From 158 countries, we help our clients, some of the most successful organisations on the globe, as well as its most dynamic entrepreneurs and thriving private businesses, to create the value they want. We help to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

Who we are
PwC’s Operate delivers operational and managed services solutions to clients across a range of situations often associated with their regulatory, risk and/or compliance agendas. We bring together regulatory insight, highly skilled operational resource and an unrivalled technology offering to provide a high quality and cost effective solution to operational delivery challenges.

Our capabilities stretch across a number of business pillars including Financial Crime Operations, Compliance Operations, Change Management and Customer Management. We have almost 1,200 people located in our purpose built, secure delivery centre in Belfast; across our regional offices in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh; and on a range of client sites.

About the role

Our Change Management Technical Solutions is experiencing continuous success and growth. As part of this growth, we are seeking to recruit experienced Testers to work with our software development teams to provide QA support to the development teams to automate tests to guide development. Each project is different, but typically you can expect to be working on the following

• Requirements analysis and validation
• Defining and executing test strategies and scripts
• Ensuring requirements traceability
• Introducing/suggesting new processes and techniques
• Accurate recording and monitoring of issues
• Reviewing test environments configuration and processes to facilitate continuous improvement and maintenance of quality standards
• Providing test estimates
• Developing and updating automated test scripts to match requirements
• UX/UI testing / Regression testing
• Creating test plans, cases, and scripts based on business requirements and technical specifications
• Executing manual and automated testing cycles, coordinating efforts with external teams
• Documenting test results, and compiling results into consolidated high level reports

Who we are looking for Essential Criteria

• Experience as a Test Analyst
• Strong background in software integration and system testing
• Has led testing in multi-technology transformation projects
• Experience in driving script-writing and testing
• Experience in SIT Testing
• Experience in performance testing.
• Experience of automated testing (e.g, Selenium)
• Experience using HP QC / JIRA or comparable platforms
• Experience of defining test strategy / test approach
• Flexible, independent and self-motivated
• Experience in supporting team success and motivating others to keep morale and performance high
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Strong experience of iterative / incremental software delivery
• Knowledge of some test frameworks and solutions to manage complexity
• Experience of working in fast paced environments to strict deadlines
• Bachelor’s Degree or HNC in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• ISTQB Foundation Certification

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of testing ERP software, particularly, Oracle E-Business Suite.

Location

You will be based in Belfast, however as a result of the wide variety of clients and projects, you may be asked to work in other locations within the UK and beyond, sometimes at short notice and sometimes over lengthy periods of time. Your desire and ability to do this will be discussed as part of the recruitment process. Candidates who are unable or do not wish to work on projects in other locations will still be considered.

What’s in it for you?

The role will be varied and challenging, providing you with an opportunity to work with a wide variety of high profile clients. We’re also exceptionally passionate about providing you with the necessary skills, experience and training to help you develop both personally and professionally.

About PwC

We’re one of the world’s leading professional services organisations. From 158 countries, we help our clients, some of the most successful organisations on the globe, as well as its most dynamic entrepreneurs and thriving private businesses, to create the value they want. We help to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

Who we are looking for

At PwC you’ll get to work with the largest, most recognisable clients in the world. We are rapidly building out our team of digital product delivery specialists and we are looking for individuals who will play a key role in achieving our mission of helping clients thrive in the digital age. We're looking for people who will think outside the box, not settling for the status quo and who will look to create impact from day one.

About the role

• As a software engineer within PwC you will form an integral part in the delivery of digital solutions to meet the needs of our clients.
• In PwC’s agile delivery team you will be building solutions which keep our clients at the forefront of digital technologies and ahead of their competitors.
• You will utilise best practices such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Test-Driven Development and peer reviews, and be involved in end-to-end software delivery.
• A software engineer will be able to contribute to design and build technical solutions to meet business requirements while adhering to high coding standards and engineering principles.
• You would typically be part of a small team of engineers who are responsible for a particular product or set of features and will have access to mentorship from senior engineers.
• Some level of travel will be required for this role.

Requirements

The Software Engineer should have experience of:

• Contributing to application design and development
• End-to-end involvement in software delivery
• Working with production systems
• Demonstrating OO development in a commercial environment
• A range of software delivery tools (source control, agile tools, CI, IDE etc)
• Implementing and following best practices
• Effective prioritisation of tasks and personal time management
• Demonstrating initiative
• Interacting with clients and/or product owners

Desirable experience

• Degree in computer science related discipline
• Delivering in a highly collaborative agile environment
• Understanding of blockchain technologies
• Behavioural Driven Development and Exploratory Testing
• Cloud environment experience
• Microservices architecture practical knowledge

About PwC

We’re one of the world’s leading professional services organisations. From 158 countries, we help our clients, some of the most successful organisations on the globe, as well as its most dynamic entrepreneurs and thriving private businesses, to create the value they want. We help to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

Who we are looking for

At PwC you’ll get to work with the largest, most recognisable clients in the world. We are rapidly building out our team of digital product delivery specialists and we are looking for individuals who will play a key role in achieving our mission of helping clients thrive in the digital age. We're looking for people who will think outside the box, not settling for the status quo and who will look to create impact from day one.

About the role

• As a software engineer within PwC you will form an integral part in the delivery of digital solutions to meet the needs of our clients.
• In PwC’s agile delivery team you will be building solutions which keep our clients at the forefront of digital technologies and ahead of their competitors.
• You will utilise best practices such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Test-Driven Development and peer reviews, and be involved in end-to-end software delivery.
• A software engineer will be able to contribute to design and build technical solutions to meet business requirements while adhering to high coding standards and engineering principles.
• You would typically be part of a small team of engineers who are responsible for a particular product or set of features and will have access to mentorship from senior engineers.
• Some level of travel will be required for this role.

Requirements

The Software Engineer should have experience of:

• Contributing to application design and development
• End-to-end involvement in software delivery
• Working with production systems
• Demonstrating OO development in a commercial environment
• A range of software delivery tools (source control, agile tools, CI, IDE etc)
• Implementing and following best practices
• Effective prioritisation of tasks and personal time management
• Demonstrating initiative
• Interacting with clients and/or product owners

Desirable experience

• Degree in computer science related discipline
• Delivering in a highly collaborative agile environment
• Understanding of blockchain technologies
• Behavioural Driven Development and Exploratory Testing
• Cloud environment experience
• Microservices architecture practical knowledge

About PwC

We’re one of the world’s leading professional services organisations. From 158 countries, we help our clients, some of the most successful organisations on the globe, as well as its most dynamic entrepreneurs and thriving private businesses, to create the value they want. We help to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.