Senior Payroll Test Analyst at Equiniti

Management Level

The role of a Senior Payroll Test Analyst is to support the Test Manager(s) in the CPD Testing team by system testing configured software platforms that meet customers’ payroll requirements for the Compendia and the Administrator applications. Day-to-day activities will focus on analysing and testing bespoke payroll configuration and core product payroll process enhancements, ensuring they adhere to HMRC legislation and are fully compliant for RTI and Taxation reporting purposes.

As a senior (SME) analyst within the testing team, direct client contact may be required.  Assisting clients as the payroll test specialist to determine acceptance criteria and the level of test coverage by providing detailed breakdown of estimates, recommended test conditions, risk assessments and ultimately the creation of detailed test scripts.  

For smaller to medium size projects a Senior Test Analyst will be required to manage the whole test cycle from test planning, scripting, execution, MI reporting through to delivery.  This may involve leading a small team of test analysts (onshore & offshore) to deliver a quality assured release.

Core Duties/Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Use own technical knowledge and experience to provide practical support to the team in the testing and QA of software and platforms in the pension payroll area to ensure they meet and/or exceeds customer expectations
• Working with Project Managers, Business Analysts, Configurators and Product Developers to produce and agree payroll testing development estimates for project planning
• Work with the Project Manager to derive the main testing milestones with recommendations for the number of test cycles.
• Contribution to the writing on the project test plans (for small to medium projects may be the owner of the test plan)
• Work with the test manager to assess resource requirements for the project or a time-box
• Writing of payroll test conditions, test scripts and test data for testing projects
• Risk assessments to provide guidance for proposed test coverage
• Analysing HMRC legislation papers to determine the specific payroll testing requirements
• Supporting the definition of and test data for payroll projects, test cases and expected results
• Setting up the test environment in co-ordination with the technical services
• Be involved in defining a project test strategy/approach working in conjunction with test managers/leads
• Fully understand how all aspects of their work integrates with the rest of the SDLC
• Monitor any change control to original requirements for impact analysis and capture these changes within a traceability matrix or within TFS/Jira
• Implementing scheduled tests, execution and logging the tests and evaluating the results and documenting any deviations from expected results
• Support the junior testers and offshore test team with clarifications and queries
• Defect management covering - tracking faults, fault investigations and triage of faults incorporating severity ratings
• Writing test summary reports (exit report) based on information gathered during testing
• Ensure successful delivery and conclusion of all test activities to meet the project target date

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks.