Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Managed Services

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & 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 as a Service team will provide you with the opportunity to help organizations and our PwC implementation and managed services teams delivery testing solutions and testing excellence through automated testing. We execute client centric test scripts and scenarios that are linked to specific detailed user personas and user stories to drive tailored results for our clients . Through our testing managed services we focus on maximizing testing execution with transparency of outcomes with the goal of minimizing go-live risk and post go-live issues. As part of our testing as a service offering we work across a variety of enterprise level technology platforms and solutions such as Oracle, Workday, SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft, Servicenow and more.

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.

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Job Summary -

A career in our Managed Services team will provide you with 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 Data, Testing & Analytics as a Service team brings 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.

Minimum Degree Required (BQ) *:

Bachelor's degree

Degree Preferred:

Required Field(s) of Study (BQ):

Preferred Field(s) of Study:

Computer and Information Science, Management Information Systems

Minimum Year(s) of Experience (BQ) *: US

Minimum of 3 years of experience

Certification(s) Preferred:

Required Knowledge/Skills (BQ):

Preferred Knowledge/Skills *:

As a Infrastructure Testing Senior Associate in the Managed Services Platform, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to test and identify complex infrastructure and platform issues from strategy through execution and beyond. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this level include but are not limited to:

Evaluating and validating the hardware, software and other components of an IT infrastructure to ensure their reliability, performance, security and scalability.

Develop and implement test strategies to test:

VDI access and operations

Application services, Containers & Virtual Servers

Regression testing after IT migration or security updates

Testing of App gateways, DNS, Bastion hosts, routing, load balancing, etc..

Testing of service integrations between distributed systems and platforms

Collaborate with IT teams to address identified issues.

Perform White box and Recovery Tests

Provides testing support for the design, implementation and operation of the standard infrastructure applications backup, anti-virus, security, patching and monitoring

Strong understanding of infrastructure components, test tools and scripting languages

Designing Test Plans and Test Cases based on the infrastructure changes and impacted functional areas.

Taking care of the project’s testware (test cases, defects, testing checklists and other related artifacts).

Reporting & managing defects

Proven track record in managing and executing infrastructure testing and regression testing.

Experienced in using application and test management tools such as Jira and qTest, etc.

Being a game changer by finding any possible improvements to Test Process or even Tested Software.

Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor Degree

Degree Preferred: Bachelor’s in computer engineering

Minimum Years of Experience: 5+ year(s) of IT experience

Certifications Required: NA

Certifications Preferred:

Required Knowledge/Skills: NA

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

Demonstrates extensive knowledge and/or a proven record of success in the following areas:

Minimum 5 years of experience as a Senior Test Associate / Test Lead

At least 5 years of experience in Infrastructure testing Skills, like Routing/Router protocol, Network, Network monitoring tools, Storage, Server/Application / Database /Data Center Migration or upgrade, Practical knowledge of preparing/designing, conducting and documenting tests,

Experience in building out and deploying containerized services with Kubernetes and cloud providers such as AWS or GCP

At least 3 years of experience in Operating System upgrade Testing

At least 3 years of System Configuration, Pre-Installation, Post Installation Testing

At least 3 years of experience in Unix Shell scripting, Perl scripting, batch job setup testing, automation testing

Possess a strong understanding of infrastructure components, such as servers, networks, storage systems, databases, and operating systems

Proficiency in scripting languages, such as Python, PowerShell, or Bash, to automate infrastructure testing tasks

Experience with cloud deployment technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform/AWS/Azure or other cloud providers, Terraform, or related tools.

Experience with core access and identity components such as Active Directory

Certification in relevant areas (such as ITIL, VMware, Cisco) will be an advantage.

Experience with microservices, software delivery platforms, DevOps, continuous integration, and release management processes.

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

Government Clearance Required?

Yes

Job Posting End Date

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