Test Analyst

Sopra Steria Limited; Killingworth Village; Hybrid; GBP 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading public sector consultancy is seeking a Test Analyst to ensure the success of HR, Finance, and Payroll system transformations. The role involves extensive technical knowledge of Oracle systems, regular testing of patches, and providing guidance on incidents. The position offers flexible working arrangements while also demanding occasional unsocial hours. Benefits include 25 days of annual leave, a health cash plan, and other flexible perks. Join a company dedicated to delivering high-quality services to government clients.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Health cash plan

Life assurance

Pension

Generous flexible benefits fund

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in a testing environment.
• In-depth knowledge of Oracle e-Business and Oracle Fusion.
• Ability to analyze and manipulate data.

Responsibilities

• Test patches ensuring no disruption to operations.
• Respond to live incidents and resolve ASAP.
• Work closely with service lines to investigate issues.

Skills

Technical knowledge of Oracle systems

Test execution experience

Live issue investigation

Customer service

Tools

Excel

Access

Job description

Are you ready to play a critical role in ensuring the success of complex HR, Finance, and Payroll system transformations across a dynamic project portfolio? We have just the opportunity for you! Our team of Test Analysts work with a range of government clients supporting their change requests on multiple HR and payroll platforms, including Oracle Fusion, Oracle eBusiness, Workday, and others. They work with various teams within the business to create test plans, executing all necessary testing for change requests, including regression testing of Critical Patch Release (CPR) and quarterly releases. The team also responds to live incidents on the various platforms, providing expert support and guidance to colleagues. This role will be predominantly based from home with visits to the Newcastle office once a week and the flexibility to attend more often if you desire. Due to the nature of releases and live support, there is an expectation of unsocial hour working, including weekend acceptance testing. A rota system may be used to distribute out-of-hours work among the team, with the manager responsible for ensuring coverage and sign-off.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!

What you’ll be doing:

• Demonstrate extensive technical knowledge of Oracle systems, including HR, Payroll, Pensions, iExpenses, CRM, and core functionalities.
• Regularly test patches from Oracle Fusion and eBusiness, ensuring system updates do not disrupt operations.
• Assist the delivery teams with systems support and guidance.
• Respond to live incidents on the various platforms, taking ownership and working to resolve them ASAP.
• Work closely with colleagues across service lines to investigate issues, clarify root causes, and implement long‑term solutions.
• Analyse and manipulate data using tools like Excel and Access.

What you’ll bring:

• An extensive background working in a testing environment.
• In‑depth knowledge, from a testing perspective, of systems such as Oracle e‑Business, Oracle Fusion, SOP, SAS solutions, Metis, and Workday.
• Previous experience in test execution including HR and Payroll systems.
• The ability to investigate live issues and deliver excellent customer service.

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Location: Newcastle
Security Clearance Level: SC
Internal Recruiter: Mark

Salary: £26,000. Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.

Although this role is advertised as full‑time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. If you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

SSCL is the market leader in critical business support services for the UK public sector. Operating at size and scale since 2013, SSCL has delivered over £750 million of savings—providing more funds for front‑line public services. We transform services using digital solutions and innovative technology, developing platforms that enable flexibility to meet the changing needs of our Government, Defence and Police clients. We employ around 3,000 people who sit at the heart of our business strategy. Their passion and connection to our values and purpose set us apart and have put SSCL in the Top 20 of GPTW large workplaces. ‘Living SSCL’ means we deliver social value within our services and work with our clients and community partners to support programmes such as education and employability initiatives across the UK.