Software Test Engineer - Great Shelford, Cambridge

Software Test Engineer - Great Shelford, Cambridge

Job Description

A Software Test Engineer is now required to join our Cambridge development team, working on our market leading financial capital modelling software. This is a new position to meet the requirements of a growing team.

In this role you will contribute to the evolutionary development of advanced analytics and decision support software across all aspects of the development life cycle. This is a varied role that will include test strategy generation, creation of manual/automated functional tests and performance tests to ensure the quality of a complex mathematical modelling tool that incorporates many technologies and frameworks.

This is an evolving role that will include:

• Working with the product owner and business analysts to translate user stories into test cases.
• Participating in design and development meetings in order to ensure designs and implementations are testable.
• Participating in retrospectives at the end of each sprint.
• Working closely with the Software Engineers to ensure that testability and best practices are built in to the code.
• Exploratory, performance, regression testing etc.
• Verification of fixes.
• Specification/management of test environments.
• Liaising with other testing teams within the company in order to share best practices.

Essential Skills

• Passionate about testing as a career, flexible in working with a team to continually improve quality.
• Experience of the development life cycle, with the flexibility to work from test strategy to system and component level testing.

Desirable Skills

• Experience of testing software written in .NET or Delphi, both GUI and Back End.
• Strong analytical & mathematical skills, preferably with understanding of statistical mathematics used in numerically intensive systems.
• Experience of writing automated tests using Scripting languages or in an Object Oriented mainstream language (C#).
• Experience in technically testing a database driven environment with a good understanding of SQL.
• Knowledge of UI/UX design patterns.
• Experienced in Agile or iterative development methodologies.
• Strong interpersonal and team skills.
• Good academic background, ideally degree educated with a 1st or 2:1 in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or Science.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

The Company

Towers Watson is a leading global professional services company that helps organizations improve performance through effective people, financial and risk management. With more than 14,000 associates around the world, we offer solutions in the areas of employee benefit programs, talent and reward programs, and risk and capital management, including insurance and reinsurance.

The Risk Consulting and Software (RCS) business within Towers Watson primarily focused on the insurance industry, but increasingly serves as a risk specialist across a variety of industries. Our clients include most of the leading global insurers as well as many of the largest financial services companies and other corporations. We have more actuaries serving the insurance industry than any other professional services firm.

Towers Watson is also a preeminent developer and provider of risk analytics and financial modelling software, with over 400 major insurance clients worldwide. We combine the technical innovation and engineering expertise of our software development professionals with the actuarial knowledge and thought leadership of our insurance consulting business to provide world-class solutions that help clients to measure value, manage risk and safeguard solvency.

Additional Information

Type: Full-time

Experience: Intermediate - senior level

Functions: Information Technology

Industries: Information Technology + Financial Services

Compensation: GBP40,000-55,000 + benefits

Job ID: 17857