Expleo UK

• Testing of Smart Meter software functionality in areas including Security, CoS, CoT, Change of Tariff and Price, billings.
• Integration, System as well as regression testing of various components of the COMM’s Hub, Electricity, Gas Meters and IHD's. 
• Domain knowledge of Business process flows.
• Stakeholder Management of 3rd party vendors of components, defects raising and following issues found till resolution.
• Selecting appropriate standards, methods, tool and applications and use on project.
• Identifying and working through problems as they arise.
• Communicating complex technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Taking ownership of own career development; identifying own development needs and opportunities to address.

• Degree in IT/Tech related subject is essential.
• ISTQB Certified.
• General HP/MS tools (or equivalent)
• Additional course or certification in Quality Assurance.

• Knowledge on SMETS1 and SMETS2 requirement. 
• CGI interfaces and Head End Systems.
• ERP within a Utilities environment.
• SAP - ISU, BW, BI, CRM, HRMS.
• Oracle - Financials, Utilities, MWM, Fusion.

• Previous experience on SMETS1 or SMETS2 project
• Prior Utilities Industry experience

• All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship (unless stated otherwise in the job description).
• This is a consultancy based role so you will be based from a variety of client sites and therefore must be willing and able to travel UK wide for long periods of time.
• You will be expected to work in a number of locations across the UK for extended period.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday increasing to 27 days after 2 years
• Pension
• Private healthcare
• Mobile phone
• Laptop
• Family days and regular social events.
• Up to 7 training days.
• Opportunity: The opportunity to work independently on tasks for challenging, international projects within a successful team and with a high degree of personal freedom in your role.
• Challenges: A constant stream of new challenges within a consultancy firm renowned for its forward-looking methods and technologies.
• Career progression: A dedicated career path designed to challenge you and further your knowledge in specialist consulting.
• Training: Extensive training to develop the essential skills you will need to develop your career with The Organisation

• Leads multiple phases of technical areas within a project and/or multiple small projects of moderate scope and sometimes complex assignments, responsible for a certain area and conditions.
• Applies standards and methodologies.
• Develops service models and prototypes and creates and implements customer feedback mechanisms.
• Responsible for needs analysis, task planning, process/data analysis and modeling and/or logical database design with relational databases.
• Agrees the project approach with stakeholders, and prepares realistic plans (including quality, risk and communications plans) and tracking activities against the project schedule, managing stakeholder involvement as appropriate.
• Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems, identifying potential benefits and available options for consideration.
• Sets up project files, compiles and distributes reports. Provides guidance on procedures, processes, tools and techniques.
• Maps full business processes and implements solutions for technological and process improvements within the context of overall business processes.
• Identifies relationships and linkages with data. Anticipates issues and identifies root causes and effects.
• Elicits and discovers requirements from key business stakeholders and selects appropriate techniques for the elicitation of detailed requirements.
• Develops a network to support and add value to client engagements including company, clients and external professional networks.
• Provides inputs on effort estimation.
• Handles training and builds competency within the vertical practice.
• Supports developing domain reusable assets – repositories, utilities, etc.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• Additional course or certification in Business Analysis
• Project Management qualification
• Management qualification or relevant years of experience

• Strong technical background with exposure to Agile.
• Experience in Energy and Utilities and or Finance would be a huge benefit.
• Ideally you will be able to demonstrate excellent leadership skills.
• Have previous experience of working on multiple projects within a consultancy / professional services organisation.

• You must be interested in a permanent opportunity
• Be willing to work throughout multiple locations throughout the UK (we pay travel and accommodation expenses)
• Eligible to work in the UK

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Childcare vouchers
• Long service awards
• Private medical insurance
• eye care
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Laptop and mobile phone
• Clubs and societies
• Birthday hampers
• Fantastic training facilities - 5-7 days access to our training academy per year

• Works on multiple phases of a project and/or multiple small projects of moderate scope and sometimes complex assignments.
• Takes responsibility for a certain area and conditions as well as results evaluation, problem resolution and planning.
• Selects appropriate standards, methods, tools and applications for project use.
• Applies data analysis and data modelling techniques to modify or maintain a data structure and its associated components (entity descriptions, relationship descriptions, attribute definitions).
• Creates and executes basic non-functional test scripts following a given set of guidelines and sets up test environments, data and monitors.
• Designs, codes, tests and documents simple programs or scripts and assists in the implementation of software which forms part of a properly engineered system.
• Co-ordinates the information gathering and reporting process, conducting research to define problems and preparing responses to anticipated questions.
• Accurately identifies project risks and reports effectively to relevant stakeholders. Manages issues, risks, actions, dependencies, and defects to the success of the project.
• Creates traceability records, from test cases back to requirements. Can report on system quality and collects metrics on test cases.
• Produces test scripts, materials and regression test packs to test new and amended software or services.
• Maintains the status of project and provides guidance to the work of junior team members, works across teams to achieve group goals.

Essential:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• ISTQB Foundation

Desirable:

• Additional course or certification in Quality Engineering
• Certification in NFT Tools such HP QTP, Selenium, HP LR etc.

• Intermediate theoretical knowledge in quality engineering methodologies and has awareness of opportunities provided by new and emerging technologies and products.
• Has good applications/technology knowledge, building on specialist domain knowledge and has practical experience of engineering tools and platforms required to deliver.
• Experience and knowledge in any of the performance testing, data and test automation tools such as HP Performance Centre/ LoadRunner, HP UFT /QTP, HP Service Test, Service Vitalize, SoapUI, CA LISA, CA GridTools Data Maker/ DataManager, JMeter, Neoload, Selenium, IBM Rational Integration Tester, Rational Robot, Borland SilkTest, TOSCA, Atlassian Jira, Jenkins, Selenium, Cucumber, Gherkin etc.
• Programming knowledge (ideally VB, Java, C#) and technical expertise in script languages (Shell, Perl, etc.).Good knowledge on Cloud concepts and virtualisation.

• Professional attitude, has developed a reputation as a trusted advisor.
• Good client-facing skills, experience in developing partnerships with the team and client and collaborating with others to exceed client expectations.
• Good problem solving skills, has experience in proposing different options and solutions for approaching and resolving issues.
• Adaptable and responds positively to changing business issues, sees change as an opportunity to improve performance.
• Excellent communication skills, adapts style accordingly and demonstrates an understanding of the audience’s perspective. Uses discretion when dealing with sensitive information.
• Good people skills, with experience in supporting others in raising their performance and working out their development goals.
• Experience in supporting team success and motivating others to keep morale and performance high.
• Good self-management.
• Can set and work to quantified goals and standards. Delivers by being aware of and considering the commercial impacts.
• Must be flexible, independent and self-motivated.

All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship (unless stated otherwise in the job description).

We offer a comprehensive benefits package which include:

• Pension scheme.
• Life assurance.
• Critical illness cover.
• Medical Insurance.
• Dental Cover.
• Maternity and paternity scheme.
• Life enrichment programme.
• Service awards for years of service.
• Birthday hampers.
• Continuous social events (including family events) which run throughout the year.
• Microsoft discounts.
• Professional membership fees.
• Bike 2 Work scheme.
• Lap top and mobile phone.

• Works on multiple phases of a project and/or multiple projects.
• Takes responsibility for a certain test area and conditions as well as results evaluation, problem resolution and planning.
• Selects appropriate standards, methods, tools and applications for project use.
• Reviews quality assurance plans, data, procedures, and scripts.
• Creates test cases independently and help prepare for evaluations.
• Runs tests and retests as necessary, executing test scripts in area of accountability.
• Investigates defined issues with uncertain cause and solicits input in gathering data that help identify and differentiate the symptoms and root causes of defined problems.
• Identifies test issues, report risks and define regression tests for current and future projects.
• Creates traceability records, from test cases back to requirements, reporting on system quality and collecting metrics on test cases.
• Works on quality assurance projects using available test frameworks and tools focusing on on-time and on-budget project goals.
• Maintains the status of project and provides guidance to the work of junior team members, works across teams to achieve group goals.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Additional course or certification in Quality Assurance.
• ISTQB Foundation.

• Intermediate theoretical knowledge in quality assurance methodologies and has awareness of new and emerging technologies and developments.
• Has good applications/technology knowledge, building on specialist domain knowledge and has practical experience of testing tools and frameworks required to deliver.
• Good understanding of the software development process including analysis, design, coding, system and user testing, problem resolution and planning.
• Excellent communication skills, adapts style accordingly and demonstrates an understanding of the audience’s perspective, uses discretion when dealing with sensitive information.
• Good people skills, has experience in supporting others in raising their performance and working out their development goals.

• Professional attitude, has developed a reputation as a trusted advisor.
• Good client-facing skills, experience in developing partnerships with the team and client and collaborating with others to exceed client expectations.
• Good problem solving skills, has experience in proposing different options and solutions for approaching and resolving issues.
• Adaptable and responds positively to changing business issues, sees change as an opportunity to improve performance.
• Experience in supporting team success and motivating others to keep morale and performance high.
• Good self-management, can set and work to quantified goals and standards, delivers by being aware of and considering the commercial impacts.
• Must be flexible, independent and self-motivated

All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship (unless stated otherwise in the job description).

We offer a comprehensive benefits package which include:

• Pension scheme.
• Life assurance.
• Critical illness cover.
• Medical Insurance.
• Dental Cover.
• Maternity and paternity scheme.
• Life enrichment programme.
• Service awards for years of service.
• Birthday hampers.
• Continuous social events (including family events) which run throughout the year.
• Microsoft discounts.
• Professional membership fees.
• Bike 2 Work scheme.
• Lap top and mobile phone.

• Works on multiple phases of a project and/or multiple projects.
• Takes responsibility for a certain test area and conditions as well as results evaluation, problem resolution and planning.
• Selects appropriate standards, methods, tools and applications for project use.
• Reviews quality assurance plans, data, procedures, and scripts.
• Creates test cases independently and help prepare for evaluations. Runs tests and retests as necessary, executing test scripts in area of accountability.
• Investigates defined issues with uncertain cause and solicits input in gathering data that help identify and differentiate the symptoms and root causes of defined problems.
• Identifies test issues, report risks and define regression tests for current and future projects.
• Creates traceability records, from test cases back to requirements, reporting on system quality and collecting metrics on test cases.
• Works on quality assurance projects using available test frameworks and tools focusing on on-time and on-budget project goals.
• Maintains the status of project and provides guidance to the work of junior team members, works across teams to achieve group goals.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• ISTQB Foundation
• Additional course or certification in Quality Assurance

• Previous experience within a consultancy working on numerous projects is an advantage
• Prior experience as a Test Analyst / Test Lead essential

• This role will be based in the North West of the UK.
• You will be eligible to claim expenses from your home location.
• We can consider permanent applications or candidates interested in a fixed term contract.
• This is a client facing role, so technical ability is considered as well as communication skills.

• 25 days leave rising to 27 following 2 years service
• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Care
• Laptop and Mobile Phone
• Maternity and Paternity Pay
• Retail Discounts