Product Test Analyst

When you join Kainos, you get to think beyond limitations to make an immediate and positive impact – like transforming digital services for millions of citizens or helping Fortune 500 companies get live and thrive on Workday.You’ll be part of a people-first culture that is growing around the world. We’re a creative, committed, and diverse group of individuals who succeed as a team.At Kainos your ideas are heard and valued and you’ll leave a legacy that you can feel proud of. Join us and discover how our people write our story.

As a Product Test Analyst at Kainos, you will work as part of a large global team supporting our successful cloud-based Smart™ Automated Test, Audit and Shield Applications across our world-wide Client-base.

You will work co-operatively with colleagues to understand customer requirements, and with the guidance from more Senior Consultants, help provide Customer value-add service from the Smart™ Product Suite. 

You will be responsible for: 

• Providing Testing support to our customers as part of the Kainos Smart™ Product Servcies Team, enabling our customers to maximise value-add from the Kainos Smart™ Product Suite by:

  • Creating value-add test packs to assist with customers testing during Workday Implementations.

  • Liaising directly with customers on a regular basis as part of the Smart™ Product Services Team.

• Utilising our Automation Suite to help our Customers go live with confidence using the Smart™ Automated Test, Audit and Shield Applications.

• Understanding Customer Needs – You will perform analysis of Customer’s Workday configuration and understand the specific configuration across a range of areas that drives their business. 

• Defining, Designing, Building and Refining Test Packs - From initial discovery of the Customers’ specific configuration, you will help define the scope of appropriate tests to be created, ensuring they are aligned with the Customer’s test strategy. You will utilize the test scope to design and build test packs in Kainos Smart™, achieving a balance of efficiency versus added value for the Customer. 

• Customer Upskilling - You will help transfer knowledge of the Smart™ Automated Test, Audit and Shield Applications to Customer teams and colleagues.

• Contributing to Continuous Improvement - Outside of Customer engagements, you will contribute to the continuous improvement of the Kainos Smart™ Test, Shield and Audit products by suggesting new features & functionality and liaising with Product Management on the creation and testing of features, fixes etc.

• Working as part of team - You will deliver as part of a team, supported by experienced consultants and supporting junior team members. You’ll also support your colleagues to foster an inclusive culture in all that you do.

Minimum (essential) requirements: 

• Excellent customer focus, with experience in a customer-facing environment. 

• Business, Finance, Computer Science or related degree to an honours level.

• Positive can-do attitude with the ability to work independently and to adapt your style and practices in order to respond to changing circumstances and customer needs.

• Clear and effective communicator (both written and verbal). Due to the interactive nature of the role, our team members must be able to communicate effectively with both customers and colleagues.

• Ability to prioritise, plan workload and meet key deadlines.

• Ability to apply all relevant standards and procedures to your own work, maintaining high levels of quality and accuracy at all times.

• Good commercial awareness and understanding of project and business dynamics. 

• Excellent attention to detail.

• Capable of working within (remote) teams and alongside customers, as well as individual tasks with limited supervision.

Desirable

• A developed understanding of manual and automated testing.

• Exposure to software development, business analysis or quality assurance/test consulting environment. 

• Experience in the implementation of on-premise or cloud-based Financials / Business Applications such as CRM, ERP, BI or HCM.

• Experience of the Workday Application Suite.