UKI Technology Consulting - Senior Test Consultant - Utilities

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, with a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.

Your experience in EY will also include:

• Free enrolment in EY's Tech MBA Programme accredited by Hult International Business School
• Discounted health insurance
• Pension
• The purchase of additional annual leave
• Hybrid Working model

Your key responsibilities

As a Senior Test Consultant with Utilities domain experience, you will help our clients solve a range of challenges, from responding to changing regulatory and operational demands to delivering large-scale technology and business transformation programmes. Leveraging your testing expertise and Utilities sector knowledge, you will play a key role in ensuring quality outcomes across complex delivery initiatives.

• You will be responsible for contributing to the delivery of IT Projects within the Utilities sector through methodologies such as Agile Scrum/Kanban and traditional Waterfall (when required), leveraging your domain knowledge and sector experience
• Apply Utilities industry knowledge to support the testing of business-critical processes and systems, including Customer Information Systems (CIS), Billing, Metering, Asset Management, and Regulatory programmes.
• Participate in presentations and proposals for medium complex projects or elements of highly complex projects
• Create high-quality work products and act as a subject matter resource on one or more services, leveraging knowledge and experience to shape services to client problems
• Understand all our service offerings and actively identify opportunities to better serve clients.
• Maintains focus so that projects deliver on key priorities and dependencies.
• You'll be responsible for contributing to proposals and client presentations for complex IT delivery projects that require disciplined quality assurance and testing expertise.
• Be responsible for your own self-development, and maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills
• Actively contribute to EY's Quality Assurance & Testing Community of practice
• Understand all our consulting service offerings and actively identify opportunities to better serve clients and be able to build meaningful external relationships with our clients and internal relationships across service lines.
• Develop junior team members through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring
• Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures.

Skills and attributes for success

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• A strong academic record including a third level degree, preferably in a business or IT related discipline, from a recognised third level institution.
• Proven testing experience within the Utilities sector, with knowledge of industry processes, regulatory requirements, and core Utilities systems such as Billing, Customer Information Systems (CIS), Metering, Asset Management, or related platforms.
• QA accreditation (ISTQB Foundation, or a similar IT accreditation from a recognised third level institution or accreditation body).
• At least 3 years' relevant experience working in a client-facing role for a leading consulting or professional services company on large-scale change/transformation programmes, systems integration programmes, or utility sector initiatives.
• Experience in Agile/ DevOps and traditional environments.
• Experience creating and maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTMs) to ensure end-to-end requirements coverage.
• Experience of functional and non-functional testing, including integration, regression, user acceptance testing (UAT), and system testing.
• Experience of creating test cases and acceptance criteria.
• Experience of using test management and defect management tools, including issue tracking and reporting tools.
• Experience supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including working with business stakeholders.
• Experience of manual testing and/or test automation, including supporting continuous testing practices within CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with troubleshooting and end-to-end defect management process.

Experience within Utilities, Energy, Infrastructure, or other highly regulated environments.

• Have structured approach to problem solving and be a self-starter with the ability to work independently managing your own workload with an attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills - tailoring communications to suit both technical and non-technical audience.
• Exposure to AI/Generative AI solutions and an understanding of testing considerations, including output validation, prompt testing, and Responsible AI principles such as bias, security, privacy, and transparency.