UKI Technology Consulting - Senior Test Consultant - Utilities

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture, and technology to become the best version of you, we are counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

EY has a number of career opportunities available, and we are interested in meeting candidates who are looking for a new challenge, one where you can develop your range of skills significantly. Be that a move out of industry into practice, or from within practice into advisory services. We are looking for future leaders with a genuine creative vision and confidence to make it happen. Our opportunities will allow you to apply your expertise to a variety of projects whilst offering you excellent career progression opportunities.

The team and the opportunity

At EY, our highly talented and motivated Digital Assurance and Quality Engineering team specializes in Data Transformation and Testing Services for our clients. We offer a comprehensive range of functional testing services, including requirements-based testing, integration testing, system testing, regression testing, and acceptance testing. Through agile QA and testing practices, we enable faster time-to-market, flexibility, and adaptability to changing requirements, along with automation and continuous testing to drive improved efficiencies. Our expertise extends to technical testing services such as test automation, API and microservices testing, mobile device testing, performance testing, and ETL testing, ensuring quality is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle. 

We are seeking an experienced Senior Test Consultant with a strong Utilities sector background to support the delivery of large-scale business and technology transformation programmes for leading Energy and Utilities organisations. The successful candidate will combine quality engineering expertise with Utilities domain knowledge, enabling them to understand complex operational processes, regulatory requirements, customer and billing systems, and industry-specific challenges.

As part of this growing team, you will also get to help shape the innovative culture that makes EY such a great place to work.
If you have a keen interest in Technology Enabled Change, as well as intellectual curiosity and energy, then Technology Consulting could be exactly the right place for you and your next career move. 

What we offer and how we will support your Career progression

Success as defined by you: 

We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
Continuous learning: Personalised career development including coaching, experiences and formal learning so you’ll develop the mindset and skills you’ll need to thrive in the future. Transformative leadership, we will give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
Career progression: When you join EY, you will be supported to ensure that you are enhancing your skills from day one. As you grow and develop here, you’ll discover opportunities to help customise your career journey, so that it’s as unique as you are. 
   

Benefits: 

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.

Ideally, you will also have:

•    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.

Inclusion & Diversity

We hold a collective commitment to foster an environment where all differences are valued and respected, practices are equitable and everyone experiences a sense of belonging: Inclusion, diversity, and equity are part of who we are at EY. We believe that the highest-performing teams maximize the power of different perspectives and backgrounds. These teams are both diverse and inclusive and are willing to invite and learn from other perspectives. Our ability to include various viewpoints into our mindsets, behaviours and operations is fundamental to driving innovation, building strong relationships, and delivering the best solutions for our clients.

We recognise the strength that comes from having a diverse workforce and building a culture where we support all our people to achieve their potential. You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

CIPD 2020 Diversity and Inclusion Winner, GreatPlaceToWork’s Top 20 UK’s Best Workplaces for Women 2020 (Super Large Category) And Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2019 & 2020.