UK Payroll Test Specialist with HMRC Expertise

6 days ago


Sutherland Shire, Australia Equiniti Full time

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Payroll Test Analyst to join our team in the UK. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the Test Manager(s) in the CPD Testing team by system testing configured software platforms that meet customers' payroll requirements for the Compendia and the Administrator applications.

About the Role:

  • Salary: £60,000 - £80,000 per annum, depending on experience
  • Job Type: Full-time
  • Location: UK (Flexible working arrangements available)
  • Benefits: Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan, All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP), Health and Wellbeing - Employee Assistance Programme, Employee discounts, Flexible Benefits, Time Off, Winning together - Equiniti ICON award vouchers

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Support the Test Manager(s) in the CPD Testing team in system testing configured software platforms that meet customers' payroll requirements for the Compendia and the Administrator applications.
  2. Collaborate with Project Managers, Business Analysts, Configurators, and Product Developers to produce and agree payroll testing development estimates for project planning.
  3. Derive main testing milestones with recommendations for the number of test cycles.
  4. Contribute to writing project test plans (for small to medium projects may be the owner of the test plan).
  5. Assess resource requirements for the project or a time-box.
  6. Write payroll test conditions, test scripts, and test data for testing projects.
  7. Risk assessments to provide guidance for proposed test coverage.
  8. Analyse HMRC legislation papers to determine specific payroll testing requirements.
  9. Support defining project test strategy/approach working in conjunction with test managers/leads.
  10. Monitor change control to original requirements for impact analysis and capture these changes within a traceability matrix or within TFS/Jira.
  11. Implement scheduled tests, execution, and logging the tests and evaluating the results and documenting any deviations from expected results.
  12. Support junior testers and offshore test teams with clarifications and queries.
  13. Defect management covering - tracking faults, fault investigations, and triage of faults incorporating severity ratings.
  14. Write test summary reports (exit report) based on information gathered during testing.

About You:

  • ISEB qualified to foundation level.
  • Experience of working within the financial sector.
  • Excellent working knowledge of UK Pension Payroll and HMRC Legislation.
  • Broad knowledge on the complexities of UK pension payroll, such as understanding of Bulk Payroll Processes, Pension Increase, CARE Year End, P60 reporting, Taxation checks, Payroll End-of-Year processing, Annual Allowance & Lifetime Allowance checks.
  • Comprehensive test analysis skills to interpret test requirements where limited information has been provided.
  • Demonstrable experience of producing high-quality test documentation and writing client-facing test summary reports.
  • Experience of facilitating fault review sessions that involve working with the Project Manager and Senior developers to resolve defect items.
  • Experience of working with UAT/BAT teams to share knowledge and support final delivery to our clients.
  • SC (Security Check) or DV (Developed Vetting) clearances are advantageous.


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