Software Tester Apprentice- Manchester

2 months ago


Manchester, United Kingdom ESTIO TRAINING Full time

Manchester
- Posted 1 week ago

**Pershing Bank of New York Mellon**

**Title: Software Tester Apprentice**

**Employer: Pershing Bank of New York Mellon**

**Full Address: 3 Hardman Street, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3HF**

**Weekly Hours Worked: Monday to Friday 37.5 hours**

**Salary: £21,000 - £24,000 per annum**

**About the company**:
Pershing provides a broad range of financial business solutions to investment banks, broker-dealers, wealth managers, financial planners and advisers across EMEA.

We have been trusted, tested and proven to protect our clients’ interests while bringing them safety, certainty and greater profitability. They know they can rely on our industry expertise, our innovative solutions and our powerful technology. Leaders in their fields, our clients choose Pershing because we are a leader in ours.

**Brief job description**:
Estio Training have an exciting new opportunity for a Software Tester Apprentice with Pershing Bank of New York Mellon a Financial Services company based in Manchester.
**Department & Team Overview**:
The Business Change Group (BC) is responsible for the oversight and management of all major projects within the firm including:

- Business and Operational re-engineering.
- Regulatory, Legal and Risk projects.
- Business driven IT change.
- Large scale change programmes of work.

Each project is run against a business case and is sponsored at Director / MD level within the organisation. The department has a core team of project managers, business analysts and skilled testers, and supports a business requirement to build efficiencies within our processes, and to professionally manage and deliver internal projects.

Quality Engineering team is part of the Business Change group responsible for functional and non-functional testing of changes and project deliveries.

**Motivation**:

- Are you looking for apprenticeships.
- Are you looking to challenge yourself and take your education and skills to the next level?
- Do you want to be part of a team that is redefining the way we approach Software Development and Testing?
- Does the world of containers and technologies excite you?

If the answer to the above questions is YES, then you are absolutely in the right place.

**As an apprentice you’ll**:

- Work alongside experienced staff.
- Gain job-specific skills.
- Get time for training and study related to your role.

**You’ll need to be**:

- 16 or over.
- Living in England.
- Not in full-time education.

**Your duties and responsibilities in this role will consist of**:

- Responsible for manual and automated test script development from Business and functional requirements (test scenarios, test cases and auto scripts)
- Responsible for test execution - manual and automated.
- Responsible for raising defects using JIRA, tracking, and retesting post fixes.
- Responsible for test reporting and closures as per Agile and Bank audit standards.
- Attend workshops and participate in as many learning opportunities as possible.
- Assist within the relevant department, but also learning about other aspects of the company.
- Adhere to Company policies, complete all mandatory trainings on time, and meet other required evaluations.
- Attend meetings and offering suggestions for improvement.
- Keep a log of everything learnt.
- Build professional relationships with colleagues and clients.
- Deliver agreed book of work (Development / testing) with high quality output and on time.

**Qualifications**:

- 5 GCSEs grades A*-C/9-4 or equivalent (including English Language and Maths)

**Skills Required**:

- Positive attitude, Innovative Thinking, Analytically and Logically strong.
- Comfortable collaborating across multiple teams and working in a fast-paced environment.
- Driven and motivated to succeed.
- Reliable and Punctual.
- Looking to progress in the financial industry.
- Good literacy and numeracy skills.
- Confident and a hard worker.
- Some work experiences (Desirable).
- Enthusiastic and eager to learn, adapt to changing priorities.
- Excellent communicator.
- Ability to work autonomously.

**Technical Skills (Desirable)**:

- Knowledge in Object Oriented Programming Languages, Databases - Java /.NET SQL/Oracle.
- Knowledge of MS Office tools, JIRA, Selenium.
- Knowledge of Windows based Environment or any.
- Knowledge of Financial Industry.
- Software Programming /Testing experiences if any.

**Personal qualities**:
**Passion for Excellence**
We get it done. We strive to be extraordinary.

**Integrity**
We do what is right, always. We challenge each other - even when it’s uncomfortable.

**Strength in Diversity**
We seek out who is missing and help everyone feel included. We invest in each other’s success.

**Courage to Lead**
We take the risks necessary to lead. We grow and move on from failures.

**Future prospects**:
The role offers a permanent role upon completion of the apprenticeship depending on performance.

**Training to be provided**:
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