UKI Technology Consulting - Senior Test Consultant - Utilities

 UKI Technology Consulting – Senior Test Consultant – Utilities

General Information

Location: Dublin

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship: NO

Business Area: Tech Consulting

Contract Type: Full-Time Permanent

The Team and the opportunity

At EY, our highly talented and motivated Digital Assurance and Quality Engineering team specializes in Data Transformation and Testing Services for our clients. We offer a comprehensive range of functional testing services, including requirements-based testing, integration testing, system testing, regression testing, and acceptance testing. Through agile QA and testing practices, we enable faster time-to-market, flexibility, and adaptability to changing requirements, along with automation and continuous testing to drive improved efficiencies. Our expertise extends to technical testing services such as test automation, API and microservices testing, mobile device testing, performance testing, and ETL testing, ensuring quality is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle. 

We are seeking an experienced Senior Test Consultant with a strong Utilities sector background to support the delivery of large-scale business and technology transformation programmes for leading Energy and Utilities organisations. The successful candidate will combine quality engineering expertise with Utilities domain knowledge, enabling them to understand complex operational processes, regulatory requirements, customer and billing systems, and industry-specific challenges.

As part of this growing team, you will also get to help shape the innovative culture that makes EY such a great place to work.
If you have a keen interest in Technology Enabled Change, as well as intellectual curiosity and energy, then Technology Consulting could be exactly the right place for you and your next career move. 

Your key responsibilities

As a Senior Test Consultant with Utilities domain experience, you will help our clients solve a range of challenges, from responding to changing regulatory and operational demands to delivering large-scale technology and business transformation programmes. Leveraging your testing expertise and Utilities sector knowledge, you will play a key role in ensuring quality outcomes across complex delivery initiatives.

• You will be responsible for contributing to the delivery of IT Projects within the Utilities sector through methodologies such as Agile Scrum/Kanban and traditional Waterfall (when required), leveraging your domain knowledge and sector experience.
• Apply Utilities industry knowledge to support the testing of business-critical processes and systems, including Customer Information Systems (CIS), Billing, Metering, Asset Management, and Regulatory programmes.
• Participate in presentations and proposals for medium complex projects or elements of highly complex projects.
• Create high-quality work products and act as a subject matter resource on one or more services, leveraging knowledge and experience to shape services to client problems.
• Understand all our service offerings and actively identify opportunities to better serve clients.
• Maintains focus so that projects deliver on key priorities and dependencies. 
• You’ll be responsible for contributing to proposals and client presentations for complex IT delivery projects that require disciplined quality assurance and testing expertise.
• Be responsible for your own self-development and maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills.
• Actively contribute to EY’s Quality Assurance & Testing Community of practice.
• Understand all our consulting service offerings and actively identify opportunities to better serve clients and be able to build meaningful external relationships with our clients and internal relationships across service lines. 
• Develop junior team members through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring.
• Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures.

 Skills and attributes for success
   

 To qualify for the role, you must have

• A strong academic record including a third level degree, preferably in a business or IT related discipline, from a recognised third level institution.
• Proven testing experience within the Utilities sector, with knowledge of industry processes, regulatory requirements, and core Utilities systems such as Billing, Customer Information Systems (CIS), Metering, Asset Management, or related platforms.
• QA accreditation (ISTQB Foundation, or a similar IT accreditation from a recognised third level institution or accreditation body).
• At least 3 years’ relevant experience working in a client-facing role for a leading consulting or professional services company on large-scale change/transformation programmes, systems integration programmes, or utility sector initiatives.
• Experience in Agile/ DevOps and traditional environments.
• Experience creating and maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTMs) to ensure end-to-end requirements coverage.
• Experience of functional and non-functional testing, including integration, regression, user acceptance testing (UAT), and system testing.
• Experience of creating test cases and acceptance criteria.

Ideally, you will also have

• Experience of using test management and defect management tools, including issue tracking and reporting tools.
• Experience supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including working with business stakeholders.
• Experience of manual testing and/or test automation, including supporting continuous testing practices within CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with troubleshooting and end-to-end defect management process.
• Experience within Utilities, Energy, Infrastructure, or other highly regulated environments.

What we look for

• A structured approach to problem solving and be a self-starter with the ability to work independently managing your own workload with an attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills – tailoring communications to suit both technical and non-technical audience.
• Exposure to AI/Generative AI solutions and an understanding of testing considerations, including output validation, prompt testing, and Responsible AI principles such as bias, security, privacy, and transparency.

What working at EY offers 

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive benefits package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs: covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer: 

• Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues around. 

• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career. 

• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you. 

All our employees are given a benefits package which they can tailor to suit their individual preferences. Our range of benefits include: 

• Pension
• Discounted health insurance
• Web Doctor – Free unlimited online GP consultations for you and your family
• The purchase of additional annual leave
• Hybrid Working
• Free Gym membership
• Travel Pass
• Maternity & Paternity leave
• Bike to work Scheme
• Recognition Awards
• Cash incentives for referrals
• Work Mobile
• Tech MBA paid by EY
• Wellness rooms available in some offices

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance. 

Career Progression 

• When you join EY, you will be supported to ensure that you are enhancing your skills from day one. 

• Continuous learning, where you can develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next. 

• As you grow and develop here, you’ll discover opportunities to help customise your career journey, so that it’s as unique as you are - success is defined by you, we will provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way. 

• Transformative leadership, we will give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs. 
• Diverse and inclusive culture, you will be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. 
• We have embraced Hybrid working at EY adding greater flexibility and autonomy to the roles of our employees. 

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

Inclusion & Diversity 

We hold a collective commitment to foster an environment where all differences are valued and respected, practices are equitable and everyone experiences a sense of belonging: Inclusion, diversity, and equity are part of who we are at EY. We believe that the highest-performing teams maximize the power of different perspectives and backgrounds. These teams are both diverse and inclusive and are willing to invite and learn from other perspectives. Our ability to include various viewpoints into our mindsets, behaviours and operations is fundamental to driving innovation, building strong relationships, and delivering the best solutions for our clients. 

We recognise the strength that comes from having a diverse workforce and building a culture where we support all our people to achieve their potential. You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Reasonable accommodations are offered at every stage of our recruitment process. 

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

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If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible. 

IMPORTANT: Where Agency assistance is required, our Talent Team will engage directly with suppliers. CVs / Profiles should not be shared directly with Hiring Managers. Unsolicited CVs / Profiles supplied to EY by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.