Job Description
Get ahead this summer on our Bright Futures Intern programme. If you’re looking for the perfect opportunity in a dynamic work environment, where innovation, creativity, and fresh ideas are welcomed, then our intern programme is for you.
You will learn from experts in their field and experience a fantastic culture, all whilst developing your brand and gaining vital skills that will pave the way to a fantastic career.
This internship opportunity sits in our Chief Information Office (CIO) in the testing team and will focus on assessing software quality through designing and executing manual and automated tests. You will support the team to ensure our products, applications and systems work correctly by providing accurate test evidence.
Role Requirements
You will gain vast insight into our culture and our business and align that insight with your career ambitions. Successful completion of the summer internship could lead to you being offered a place on our Bright Futures graduate programme after Graduation.
Aside from being one of the world’s longest-standing general insurers providing peace of mind to individuals, families, small businesses, and large corporations, we pride ourselves in bringing together the brightest people from diverse backgrounds. Being a part of RSA means being part of an inclusive, collaborative, and diverse community that allows people to feel and be their best.
Joining us means being part of a company committed to transparency in the way we work. We use responsible business practices that not only span our investments, choice of suppliers and environmental impact, but how we engage with customers and employees.
Responsibilities
In this internship opportunity, you can expect to be:
- Working with business and technology stakeholders to contribute to the test strategy and test plan to deliver specific business outcomes
- Supporting the Senior testers and wider team, to ensure test evidence requirements are met
- Ensuring all test design and test execution activities are compliant with agreed frameworks
- Creating Test Design Specification and Test Cases for the system under test, working with the Business subject matter expertise, Business Analyse/Product owner to seek their feedback
- Updating the selected test tool with the outcome for the test and reporting clear, concise and timely test metrics & dashboards
· Building your knowledge within testing: Functional Test, Test Automation, Test Management and Non-Functional Testing· Measuring monitoring tools such as MS Dynamics, SiteScope, Wireshark & PerfMon.
- Windows & Unix Server Administration plus additional Platform knowledge covering, Physical, Virtual, and Cloud.
The Individual
We want your individualism, capability, and ambition to shine through. You will need to have a zest for learning and a willingness to be hands on in the role.
You will need to be a Graduate in your penultimate year of study, ideally in computer science, engineering or related field.
The best skills and attributes to have to be successful in this internship are:
- To be a critical thinker teamed with problem-solving abilities
- To be able to work autonomously within a matrix and fast paced environment
- Knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as,waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and DevOps)
About Us
A welcoming, diverse, and inclusive culture is an important element for RSA in our best-in-class ambition. RSA thrives when everyone feels comfortable bringing their best self to work. We have a diverse mix of customers, and we want our employee base to reflect that. We celebrate difference, whilst striving to create an environment where colleagues feel respected and valued for their unique potential.
Our commitment to diversity is sincere, continually growing and led right from the top. RSA takes pride in being accessible to all. We welcome applications regardless of gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, race, marital status, ethnic origin, religion, or social class. We encourage inclusive environments where our people can always give and show the very best of themselves and harness the power of our diversity.
If you require flexibility in when, where, or how you work, we’d love to hear from you. We also want to ensure that you are supported throughout the application process to enable you to be at your best. If you require adjustments during your application process, please flag this on your application form.
Our Values:
Integrity: Be honest, open, and fair. Set high standards. Stand up for what is right. Respect: Be kind. See diversity as a strength. Be inclusive and collaborate.
Customer Driven: Listen to our customers. Make it easy, find solutions. Deliver second-to-none experiences.
Excellence: Act with discipline and drive to outperform. Embrace change, improve every day. Celebrate success yet remain humble.
Generosity: Help others. Protect the environment. Make our communities more resilient
Job Reference: UK000597