RWS Holdings plc is the world’s leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services. We help our customers to connect with and bring new ideas to people globally by communicating business critical content at scale and enabling the protection and realization of their innovations.

Our vision is to help organizations interact effectively with people anywhere in the world by solving their language, content and market access challenges through our collective global intelligence, deep expertise and smart technology.

Customers include 90 of the globe’s top 100 brands, the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and 18 of the top 20 patent filers worldwide. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific, and North and South America across the technology, pharmaceutical, medical, legal, chemical, automotive, government and telecommunications sectors, which we serve from offices across five continents.

Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L).
For further information, please visit: www.rws.com.

 

About The Role:

The successful candidate will demonstrate a working knowledge of software testing in various phases of software development cycle, as well as hands-on experience with a multitude of software applications in a corporate network environment including servers, databases, and mail systems.  Leadership experience including supervisory experience or project management is highly desirable.

This is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated individual to gain exposure to the global software development and testing world, while working with cutting-edge technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate testing projects based on limited information & client budgets
• Propose design test & scenarios of test plan
• Overseeing functional & linguistic software testing/QA in the onsite testing facility
• Manage operational and technical aspects of projects
• Review identified defects within the software at different levels; from the back-end of the software to UI
• Review test progresses, blocking issues, and defects
• Measure and forecast progress of project, track tester time, schedule freelance testers
• Provide status reports regularly to Test Line Manager/Testing Manager
• Participating client initiated meetings to give project updates and coordinate tasks among developers, test leads, SI and other team testers
• Assisting with IT support functions

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, CS, Engineering related discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Previous experience in software development/testing environment
• Demonstrable system test execution, defect investigation and test reporting skills
• Demonstrable experience in working limited info to design test scope, parameters
• Knowledge of computer networks and Microsoft domain components
• Minimum one year experience with various versions of Windows servers
• Knowledge of MS Exchange server configuration
• Experience using database systems
• Leadership skills
• Highly detailed and organized
• Ability to work under pressure by setting priorities on multiple tasks
• Ability to work on a team and communicate effectively with other team members
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills
• Motivated and ability to learn fast

Desirable skills and abilities

• Prior client engagement experience
• Prior supervisory experience
• Previous experience in software testing
• Knowledge of test management tools
• MS Excel expertise
• Working knowledge of security setup/firewall configuration
• IT support experience in software development / testing environment