You'll have the following responsibilities:
You keep your knowledge up to date with respect to understanding the main products and services for Openreach. This means you know how they are ordered, how faults are fixed, how multiple products fit together, and understand the field engineer’s role.
You prepare for testing according to local procedures. It’s likely to include understanding requirements, preparing test packs, running pre-release testing to baseline results, and running preparatory meetings.
You execute release testing in either pre-deployment or post-deployment phases. It can be on software models, simulations or on the live network. You may have to run and coordinate a release phase of testing.
You help resolve queries/issues raised by our customers. This includes dealing quickly with incidents, requests for help and understanding service requests and change management.
You also help prevent similar problems happening again for us and our customers.
You use local processes and guidance for managing defects. This will include systems and tools to use, stakeholders to update, information to manage, and people to follow-up with to make sure they get fixed as soon as possible.
Communication: you tell everyone that needs to know what’s happening, if there are any escalations, actions or concerns, and provide regular reports as required. This includes reporting on team performance measures as required.
You’ll get involved with the management reporting and this will need to be done to a high standard.
You help with devising and implementing all relevant parts of the test strategy and transformation to make testing better for our customers.
You provide normal customer testing and support during weekdays and on a rota basis for weekend and out of hours. You cover IST hours, UK hours or a mixture of the two depending on operational reqirements.
You may be involved in wrap-around tasks like putting customers onto or taking them off the testing environments.
You help with continuously improving how the team delivers for our customers
You coach new people in the team to achieve their full potential
You work with others regardless of who or where they are in BT.
You help others to achieve their objectives.
You robustly manage your own performance and of those around you, including suppliers and third parties. You recognise good performance and help fix under-performance.
You manage stakeholders so that they are informed of progress and their questions get answered.
You manage your work to high standards for our customers, measured in terms of timely delivery, cost of implementation and quality of the software releases from our customers’ perspective
You'll have the following skills & experience
Software testing experience of 2-3yrs minimum, preferably in telecoms, definitely in complex environment
Knowledge of: software testing, functional or non-functional test analysis, agile testing, defect management, automation.
Incident and change management (Bridge/HPSM)
Experience of working directly with customers
Test data management for stubs and harnesses an advantage
Desirable: understands the interfaces with Testing Teams, Design teams for functional knowledge of EMP, feeding in and driving through improvement initiatives and strategy.
Management experience withing a complex software testing environment
Tools: HP quality center, QTP.
Working in a multi-vendor environment.
Planning and scheduling
Supplier Management
Stakeholder Management
Will depend on experience and any speciality required.
Must have a bachelors degree in a relevant engineering subject, and pass mark of above 60%
ISTQB foundation in software testing is an advantage
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