Applications are now open for a new Assured Skills Academy in software testing and automation with PwC, offering 20 high quality training places for people with degrees.
The Academy will see participants receive nine weeks of online training from Belfast Met. Participants who complete the course will be guaranteed an interview for a role with PwC’s Belfast team.
Economy Minister Diane Dodds said: “I am pleased to announce this latest Assured Skills Academy with PwC, part of a series of Academies with the company being rolled out over a five-year period with a view to recruiting 600 new staff.
“In this Assured Skills Academy participants will gain the cutting edge skills they need to start a career in business services with PwC’s dynamic Belfast team.
“Assured Skills Academies are a proven method of helping people reskill while also facilitating growing companies to recruit the skilled people they need."
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Course content will cover areas including software development lifecycles, software testing, automation, several coding languages and methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall.
Deborah Stevenson, Operate Director at PwC, said: “We’re delighted to continue to support the Assured Skills Academy programme.
"Creating access and different pathways into employment, and a potential career in software and automation, is essential and provides an opportunity to help foster and grow our future talent.”
Applications for the PwC Software Testing and Automation Assured Skills Academy are open now and will close on 15 February 2021.
Applicants must hold a minimum 2:2 in any degree discipline.
For more information and to apply, visit http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/assured-skills
