Client UAT Engineer in Swindon

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Salary: Up to £33,000 pa + Bonus

Location: Swindon/London – Hybrid

We’re looking for a Client UAT Engineer with previous testing experience, strong technical aptitude, and the ability to learn quickly within a fast-paced environment. This role would suit someone with excellent communication skills, a solid technical background, and the ability to absorb and apply technical information to a high standard. You will be proactive, self-motivated, and eager to continuously develop your knowledge, while demonstrating a strong sense of ownership and accountability. The ability to effectively support both clients and internal teams is essential, as is exceptional attention to detail and a working knowledge of SQL queries.

What you will be doing:

• Perform final gateway validation of new and existing products within testing environments, ensuring alignment with agreed customer requirements and specifications.
• Validate new and enhanced products from the client’s perspective prior to formal User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Review business requirements and develop comprehensive test plans.
• Identify and implement process improvements to drive efficiency and enhance testing practices.
• Log, track and perform initial analysis of defects identified during system integration testing, working closely with internal teams and project managers to resolve issues and coordinate regression testing.
• Provide direct support to clients during UAT, validating reported issues through reproduction and maintaining an accurate known issues log.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of processes, procedures and tools to enhance quality and operational efficiency.
• Ensure the quality and accuracy of all delivered product changes.
• Communicate effectively on testing activities, validation outcomes, issue investigations, progress updates and resolutions.
• Support Project Managers throughout the delivery lifecycle of new and enhanced products.
• Create, maintain and expand knowledge base articles within Confluence and SharePoint.
• Mentor, train and support colleagues and new team members.
• Design, estimate, implement, test and support new products on the PPS payment platform.
• Enhancements and changes to existing products.
• Provide technical support to the Delivery team during client implementations.
• Document new functionality, tools, processes and procedures.
• Manage deployment activities, including change management processes and scripting using Shell and SQL within Unix/Oracle environments.
• Review proposed changes to minimise risk and ensure deployment accuracy.
• Produce effort estimates for new projects and change requests.
• Provide out of hours support on a rota basis where required.

What you will bring:

Essential:

• Working knowledge of SQL, with the ability to write basic to intermediate queries.
• Basic understanding of UNIX commands for directory navigation and file viewing.
• Technical background with software testing experience.
• Experience creating test plans from gathered requirements.
• Manual testing experience.
• Ability to quickly understand and learn technical concepts.
• Familiarity with XML.
• Comfortable working in a technical environment, troubleshooting client testing issues and working to tight deadlines.
• Self-motivated and results-oriented, with the ability to work independently.
• Positive, proactive attitude with strong ownership and accountability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organisational skills and exceptional attention to detail.
• Good understanding of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office applications.

Desirable:

• Support experience.
• Experience within the card payments industry.
• Experience using JIRA.

What you will get:

• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays.
• Hybrid working environment (min. 3 days per week in the office).
• Pension Scheme – employer 6% with minimum employee contribution 3%.
• Discretionary bonus scheme based on company and personal performance.
• Medical & international travel cover (leisure and action sports).
• Life insurance (4x salary).
• Wellbeing Employee Assistance Program (extended access to family members).
• Holiday trading scheme.
• Season ticket loan.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Employee discount shopping platform.
• Employee referral bonus scheme.
• Digital learning platform.
• Complimentary fruit and other ‘in office’ snacks & refreshments.
• Volunteering programme.
• Social events.

Edenred Payment Solutions are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on age, race, colour, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship, marital status or civil partnership/union status, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by applicable country or local laws.

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