Job description
Customer Testing Specialist
We're now a global company operating at the forefront of the information age, employing 90,000 people in 180 countries. And we're on a mission. Guided by our core values of Personal, Simple and Brilliant our goal is to help customers, communities and businesses overcome barriers and release their potential.
So, if you're interested in the power of potential, why not join us today and release yours? You can read more here about what it's like to work at BT.
- Coordinates a diverse team and creates the initial test schedule to deliver all aspects of testing to time, budget and quality targets, holding accountability for producing outlines of solutions and defining depth of testing required.
- Monitors day to day activities to ensure all objectives are achieved, reviewing reports and statistics to unblock any issues.
- Provides technical expertise within their area and shares knowledge with team to scope and deliver testing requirements.
- The role is accountable for all test process related activities throughout the lifecycle for their domain, including test estimation across their defined area.
- The role is responsible for management of test planning and execution, to achieve business milestones, and in particular to support ‘bug fix’ and retest cycles inside delivery cycles.
- Accountable for the coaching & mentoring of test professionals, including line management of BT direct reports, Matrix BT Teams and Third party supplier teams.
- The role is responsible for driving continuous improvement of their own team and the organisation health of their team.
- Manage deliverables within the test budget allocated to them with the agreed measures and KPI’s, including resource management and work prioritisation
- Maintains optimum test execution rates by expert scheduling of tests. Liaises with customers, vendors, project and programme management alike and reliably delivers results to meet expectations.
You'll have the following skills & experience
- Stakeholder Management: Interacts with customers and senior internal stakeholders including project and programme managers to gather insight and feedback to inform testing requirements and approach.
- Testing Concepts: Understands non-functional testing including: performance, resilience, usability, security penetration. Experienced in implementing a number of these. Aware of the tools that available to support these kinds of testing. Understands end-to-end and multi-system testing issues and techniques
- Problem Solving: Ability to solve complex defect triage / diagnostic problems which may require detailed input from several teams including 3rd parties. Solve day to day problems to keep test team on track including environment, blocking defect Triage if extensive delay. Solve complex environment issues including contention, config management
- Change Management: Managing change within own discrete team and sharing experience and approach with others. Adapting plans and test approach to accommodate changing business requirements in direct area
- Commercial & Risk Awareness: Able to undertake ongoing analysis of test progress against plan to identify risks to and issues with successful test completion; addresses those risks and issues as appropriate seeking guidance within the test unit when requiredNegotiations & collaborative partnering skills
- Professional Test experience
- Preferred ISTQB/CSTE Equivalent Certifications
- Experience in progressive reduction of defects entering production, and RFT delivery for their area of scope.
- Competitive salary
- 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays, and additional days for length of service
- 10% on target bonus
- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme - If you pay in a minimum of 5% of your pensionable salary every month we will pay in 10%
- Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
- 50% off BT and EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
- Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
- BT TV, including BT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, and 25% off NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids
- 30% discount for friends and family on EE mobile pay monthly and SIM only plans
- Shared Parental leave - maximum amount of leave you can share with your partner is 50 weeks
- Maternity leave – generous company maternity leave
- Paternity leave – up to 2 weeks paid
- 3 volunteering days per year
- Competitive employee discount on BT/EE products
- Competitive friends and family discount on EE Mobile
- Access to our brand new, innovative office spaces, including our new office in London which opened this year
- Access and involvement with our incredible 11 People Networks including Able2 network, Carers network, Ethnic diversity network, Gender equality network and Pride network
We're the leading communications provider with customers in 180 countries. Across the world we enable customer's digital transformations so they can thrive. our focus is simple: be the global provider-of-choice for managed network and IT infrastructure services..