During my time on placement at Newcastle Building society I have had a range of responsibilities Originally I spent time with multiple teams including the Service Desk and Colleague Device team where I learnt a lot about the organizational structure and
Overall supporting the PampSM team with daily and monthly tasks as required Involves coordination with other teams such as Cyber Security to ensure supplier due diligence is up to date Also been assigned individual projects surrounding DEI and Envir
Creating MI reports
No day is the same
My title was Software Development Student Placement however the role was within the Software QA department as an Automation Test Engineer I was responsible for writing and performing tests against various solutions that my team was responsible for mai
I was a software QA placement On a day to day basis I would attend department amp team meetings as well as complete different forms of testing for features on both the NBS and NBS client apps
My role started out on the service desk where I got to grips with the systems the Society uses and it gave me the understanding of how the whole IT department operated I then moved to the Cyber Security team where I worked with SIEM technologies to inves
Within my role each day is never the same However it mainly consists of onboarding new colleagues collecting their documentation and making sure they039re welcomed into the business I also process different HR changes such as transfers promotions
My day would involve liaising with stakeholders in the business to gather content that we would then take to convert into digital learning courses using programmes such as articulate We would then release these courses to be completed by colleagues in th
Monitoring customer complaints and managing pipelines across many business areas Long term projects worked on also
As a software tester I test various systemssolutions by using automation manual and exploratory testing Automation testing uses C code for the tests and the scenarios are written using cucumber and gherkins selenium I use test rail to document my
My role was to work on daily admin tasks within the treasury department ensuring that processes were followed correctly and that everything was completed professionally I worked with members of my team to process high value payments to external counterpa
Working within the Group Financial control team spending time with both Financial Close and Financial Planning and Analysis Within Financial close I have worked on Bank reconciliations before progressing to the WIP reconciliation and now responsibile f
My role involves a wide variety of jobs I began learning about L and D and working on projects to aid colleagues in the transition to hybrid working I have now transitioned to the Early Talent team and have worked on the recruitment of early talent coll
Completing the complaint daily tasks which involves logging and archiving of complaints sending out the outstanding complaints chase providing weekly management information on complaints for the relevant business areas Also involved in the monthly tas
My role is to perform general tests These tests can be for pretty much anything such as the user interface the application program interface general accessibility or testing live web servers Ill either run these tests manually or program tests which
I am placed within the Treasury Operations department supporting them with their system change project and daily tasks Within the treasury department we handle and look after the liquidity of the business Making sure we have enough funding investment
Initially I spent some time on the Service Desk to get to grips with the different technologies and systems the society use as well as the main technical issues end users have with them After that I moved to the IT Infrastructure team where I worked w
I throughly enjoyed my HR placement with the Newcastle Building Society From the offset the HR and LD teams made the interview and onboarding experience seamless Opportunities to network and interact with other members internal and external were rea
Overall I enjoyed my time at Newcastle Building Society Having a full time job was something I had never experienced before I got this placement and it was a great way to get involved a workplace As well as this it was good to see how a business of this
