This role is for a test lead to assist in the delivery of the systems required to track and manage the end to end process of large data driven projects. The main responsibilities of the post holder will be to aid the company in ensuring delivery of a high quality system that matches end-user expectations and coordinate with the NHS User Groups and external third parties to capture system requirements.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES: 

.Overall responsibility for production of test scripts (team-wide)
. Overall responsibility for quality of test scripts (team-wide)
. Leading on the division of tasks within sprint
. Responsible for all tickets being tested within sprint and advanced through sprint board (Tested, Ready for UAT)
. Management of a small team of testers

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: 

 Strong analytical skills for requirements gathering

.Strong technical aptitude, and a demonstrable background in a testing role
. Ability to understand technical systems and use knowledge to diagnose issues
. Effective planning and organisation skills
. Ability to understand technical briefs and create tests from them
. The ability to communicate confidently and effectively
. A proven track record of working in an Agile environment
. Flexible & adaptable in the face of changing priorities or circumstances
. A flexible approach to learning new technologies and ways of working
. Use of test management (JIRA) and test creation (Zephyr)
. Ability to support and create metrics and traceability for testing
. Ability to analyse test failure
. Ability to clearly document own processes and procedures for others to understand
. ISEB/ISTQB Level 1

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Your responsibilities will include:

·         Establish a highly effective global delivery team, which is adaptive to technology and business change with a clear focus on providing career opportunity, a 'one-team culture', globally and building an ethos of strong customer focus

·         Establish a group which provides year on year sustained value, effectiveness and efficiency working to year on year measurable targets, goals and objectives and which is closely aligned to the business

·         You will provide oversight and detailed involvement in the portfolio delivery programmes. Leading significant programme deliverables from the front

·         You will have responsibility for the Portfolio budget and reporting all progress via the Investment Committee, maintaining a good governance and reporting discipline at all times

·         Leadership role in driving strategic roadmaps and relationships with partners

·         Leadership role in the wider Technology department, contributing to ideas and innovation

·         Team leadership and coaching - motivating staff and explaining why we are doing what we do and how we do it.

Key Skills:

·         You must be able to clearly demonstrate your experience within a Technology delivery environment, preferably within the financial services industry - Asset management, wealth management or securities trading environment

·         Experience of delivery responsibility for complex programmes of work, multi-year and cross functional with significant technology effort gained from a technology based career path

·         Experience of delivering change to both internally built and vendor supplied solutions

·         Experience of managing multi-million dollar budgets and understanding finance and resource aspects of a technology team

·         Knowledge and experience of managing and delivering technology change within multi location teams

·         Proven track record of effective client management, systems and technologies deliveries, and influencing at the senior-most levels in the organisation.

·         Ability to lead strategic thinking and to communicate effectively, both formally & informally

·         Knowledge and understanding of different delivery methodologies, but especially agile/product model approaches

·         Self starter, team-player, and requiring minimum oversight and guidance. A real "Can Do" attitude with high levels of resilience in high pressure situations.

·         Excellent communication/presentation skills to present to/liaise with all levels of stakeholders.

·         Ability to work well in a Matrix-based and geographically-dispersed organisation.

·         Digital/stockbroking experience preferred.

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Accountabilities

·         Working with the team and students to ensure effective delivery of operational IT Services which meets the needs of the business

·         Planning, leading and co-ordinating improvement initiatives involving IT Services

·         Developing and maintaining project plans, budgets and service management framework

·         Ensure projects are planned and executed in line with the client's agreed framework (Risk & issue identification, Systems & Operational Acceptance Testing, Project team roles)

·         Developing and maintaining a communications plan and keeping the business and IT communities in line with business requirements

·         Co-ordinating the internal client services (ie: facilities management) and external service providers as necessary to meet agreed timescales

·         Managing resources as appropriate to the implementation of IT related activities

·         Taking ownership for: task setting, forecasting and estimating, milestone identification, reporting and monitoring, risk management, issue management, quality assurance, change management and financial reporting

Competencies

·         Ability to develop effective business relationships with internal and external stakeholders

·         Ability to identify business opportunities, and demonstrating awareness of the associated risks

·         Identifying business opportunities and being able to balance financial expectation related to risk

·         Effective communication skills suitable for the management of and liaison with senior management and department staff

·         Demonstrative effective communication, both orally and in writing with suburdinates, associates and clients

·         Demonstrative professionalism with a can do attitude

Requirements

·         Degree educated and/or applicable professional qualifications

·         Exposure to service delivery and management methodologies such as: Prince 2, PMP, PMI, ITIL, MS Project/Microsoft Project (ideally ITIL-certified). Formal training with ITIL discipline would be highly advantageous

·         Significant IT Operations management experience in a role that requires involvement and understanding of business activities and vendor management. Awareness of industry standards (ie: ISO 9001, ITIL).

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They operate a strong TDD / Test First method, so you should be comfortable with things like pair programming, TDD, Auto-test and/or XP. The Java Developer should also be at ease working at every level of the technology stack.

Java Developer - Java 8 requirement for an urgent start. The Java Developer - Java 8 will be working in London

Java Developer - Java 8 Key Skills:

• Solid Java 8 skills
• Knowledge of Akka
• Strong experience writing code using TDD
• Quality mindset
• Experience working in self-organizing teams; a can-do attitude, proactive mindset
• Experience working in an Agile environment

Java Developer - Java 8 Desirable Skills:

• Experience in building high availability/distributed systems using Java, Akka and Spring
• Experience writing highly concurrent and highly available systems
• Experience with Real Time messaging systems
• Experience with MongoDB
• Experience with message-driven systems (eg IBM MQ Clustering).

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Java Developer - As an award winning and very innovative company we will give the Java Developer the chance to work in a vibrant and intellectually challenging environment. 

My client requires a Java Developer to develop high quality code for a transactional instant payments solution within established development standards as well as help automate the deployment pipeline using DevOps tools/processes along with writing automated feature and integration tests.

Skills Required:

Java development experience (version 8)

Strong experience writing code using TDD

Knowledge of Akka

Experience in writing BDD tests using Cucumber

Experience with DevOps tools and processes, specifically Linux, Jenkins, Maven, and Git

Experience working in self-organizing teams; a can-do attitude, proactive mindset

Experience working in an Agile environment

Desired Experience:

Experience in building high availability/distributed systems using Java, Akka and Spring

Experience writing highly concurrent and highly available systems

Experience with Real Time messaging systems

Experience with MongoDB

Experience with message-driven systems (eg IBM MQ Clustering).

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Java Developer - As an award winning and very innovative company we will give the Java Developer the chance to work in a vibrant and intellectually challenging environment. 

My client requires a Java Developer to develop high quality code for a transactional instant payments solution within established development standards as well as help automate the deployment pipeline using tools/processes along with writing automated feature and integration tests.

Skills Required:

Java development experience

Strong experience writing code using TDD

Experience in writing BDD tests using Cucumber

Experience with DevOps tools and processes, specifically Linux, Jenkins, Maven, and Git

Experience working in self-organizing teams; a can-do attitude, proactive mindset

Experience working in an Agile environment

Desired Experience:

Experience in building high availability/distributed systems using Java and Spring

Experience writing highly concurrent and highly available systems

Experience with Real Time messaging systems

Experience with MongoDB

Experience with message-driven systems.

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Technically you will have good experience with HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and JQuery, ideally with React.JS or other relevant Javascript frameworks. Knowledge of AJAX, JSON, Grunt, etc would also be useful and you will have experience of responsive design, cross-browser compatibility and ideally content management systems.

The role is for a strong software developer with an an emphasis on Front End skills.

We will want you to work in an agile development environment. You will either already have experience in this area or a desire to learn these methodologies.

You will have good software design skills and a drive to implement a vision. You will be an active member of the team to agree how we will turn the vision into software.

We are looking for a self-starter who will rapidly forge strong relationship with product owners and other stakeholders. You should be able to put forward your own ideas whilst being receptive to others and therefore a strong communicator.

As an experienced software developer, you will be very much hands on designing and coding. You will help maintain our existing suite and developing wholly new products and features for the Exhibitions industry.

You may be experienced in one or two major frameworks and able to learn new and adopt new frameworks as and when required. You would ideally have a thorough understanding of object-oriented programming, learned through hands-on experience.

We will be providing an ongoing commitment to your professional development and you will be expected to share your experiences with other team members.

With strong, effective communication skills, both written and verbal, your credentials will demonstrate your ability to pro-actively deliver results while managing a number of competing tasks in a pragmatic way.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understand the software requirements for the project
• Estimate fairly and work well to commitments
• Hands on software development following an agile software development methodology
• Produce application code that meets design specifications, follows internal standards, and is easy to maintain
• Review code for technical accuracy, standards, and functional compliance to the design
• Write unit and regression tests, using automation wherever possible.
• Maintain product documentation to reflect enhancements and other software changes
• Develop release scripts to ensure the rapid automated installation of new features
• Assess product impact and possible implementation options, and recommend the solution that best suits the needs of the requirement
• Investigate and resolve software defects
• Fulfil administrative reporting requirements
• Other duties as assigned by management
• Desire to identify and learn new web based technologies when required

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

• Proven ability to learn new frameworks, languages and methodologies
• Show examples of an excellent eye for visual design of interfaces
• Experience of modern web application development
• Demonstrable knowledge of HCI/usability principles
• Experience of version control software, particularly Git
• Experience working in an agile/scrum development process
• Desirable, a good software engineering-related degree or relevant experience

Technical Skills:

• Detailed knowledge of HTML 5 and AJAX techniques
• Detailed knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• .Net Framework, either VB.NET or C#
• Good knowledge of JSON APIs from a client and server perspective
• Detailed knowledge of one or more frameworks, eg React, Vue.js, Angular

Desirable Additional Skills:

Experience of these skills may be an advantage or demonstrate a proven ability to learn:

• XML and XML Schema
• Microsoft SQL querying and database skills highly desirable
• Gulp, Babel, ES6
• Experience of continuous integration/release process

PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS:

• A flexible and adaptable attitude
• Commitment to quality and customer satisfaction
• The motivation to complete activities both individually and as a team
• Solution-focused, with ability to prioritise
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong problem solving and debugging skills
• Persistent and resilient under pressure, with a good sense of humour
• Accurate, with high attention to detail

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We are seeking a strong MySQL Database Administrator to work with a client based on taking complete ownership of their database environment across the entire estate. The company has experienced consistent growth since it's inception and they are committed to nurturing and promoting internally.

The ideal candidate will have previously supported a MySQL database and have an analytical, meticulous and problem-solving attitude. You will have also worked in a live MySQL environment.

Role & Responsibilities:

Database administration and maintenance
Contributing to documentation and best practice
Managing incidents and service requests
Database capacity planning
Database security
Database performance, backups, queries, clusters, nodes, and migrations
Writing and optimising SQL statements

Knowledge & Experience:

MySQL Administration
SQL
Managing and testing database backup and restore procedures
Monitoring system performance 
Writing optimised SQL code

Any knowledge of the following is beneficial:

PostgreSQL or MongoDB
Working in an Agile environment
Percona

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This is a great opportunity to work with one of the most exciting retailers in the UK. As the Digital Analyst contractor

We are partnered with a leading global retail company, who are looking for a Data Analyst to join their London team.

*Candidates must have Retail experience, anyone without this will be rejected!*

Candidates need to have a strong background/experience of working within Retail. You will be involved in the design and documentation of the data migration approach.

Perks of the role - On site Restaurant, Coffee Shop and Brand new Re-furbished modern offices.

Candidates Background they are looking for

• Be methodical in their approach to gathering requirements and documentation of data analysis
• Possess an advanced understanding of data models, database design and specifically, retail data
• Possess strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organise, analyse, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
• Be passionate but pragmatic with respect to data quality
• Be adept at querying data, and presenting findings
• Have experience of data migration, preferably in a retail environment

What you will be doing

• Elicit the data migration requirements and transformation rules, being able to explain the pros, cons and impacts of decisions made
• Prepare validation reports in agreement with business SMEs to support the business validation and signoff process
• Design and document the data migration approach and gain business sign off
• Liaise with Business SMEs to gain signoff at the pre-agreed points in the process
• Manage large volumes of data, validate that the data extracts, transformations and loads are accurate and complete

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SOFTWARE DEVELOPER - LEEDS CITY CENTRE

ASP.NET/C#/JavaScript/MVC Frameworks/SQL/Entity Framework

We are looking for a Software Developer specializing in .NET to join our growing consultancy. We invest in ur employees and offer excellent progression opportunities!

• Are you a seasoned developer looking to take the next step in your career?
• Based in Central Leeds, easily commutable from Wakefield, Huddersfield, Castleford and more!
• Opportunity to be an integral member of a team made up of Senior Dev's, juniors and a couple of Grads!
• Competitive starting salary of 48k + Bonus, Pension, Career Development and company events!
• To apply please call or email

We're a thriving consultancy based in a modern office in central Leeds. We pride ourselves on our core values which have been integral to our success. We are now looking for an ambitious and experienced Developer with experience in ASP.NET/C#/JavaScript/MVC Frameworks/SQL/Entity Framework to join the dynamic development team here. We produce Software solutions for a wide variety of clients; working across the sectors of Healthcare, Retail, Finance and more. We class ourselves as a "people's business", over the years we have created a unique working environment that not only works well for us but also our clients. If this sounds like the kind of a place in which you would thrive, then apply today!

As one of the more senior members of our team, your role will be integral from day one! Your ASP.NET/C#/JavaScript/MVC Frameworks/SQL/Entity Framework skills will be put to good use working on numerous high profile projects for our valued clients. The nature of the company means no two days are the same, you will benefit from a rich and varied workload and the chance to really put your knowledge to the test. Whilst also receiving on-going training and exposure to the latest technical frameworks. You will be key to helping mentor and train the juniors in the team, so great communication and a love for passing on your skills are needed. We are a fully agile working environment so prior experience of this methodology is important to us. Due to the nature of the business travel to client sites may be required in this role, and you must be comfortable communicating directly with clients.

WE NEED YOU TO HAVE:

• At least 3 years experience working with ASP.NET/C#/JavaScript/MVC Frameworks/SQL/Entity Framework
• Previously worked in an agile environment
• An ambitious attitude + great communication
• A genuine passion for all things tech!

TO BE CONSIDERED:

Please either apply by clicking online or emailing me directly to . For further information please call me on/. I can make myself available outside of normal working hours to suit from 7 am to 10 pm. If unavailable please leave a message and either myself or one of my colleagues will respond. By applying for this role you give express consent for us to process & submit (subject to required skills) your application to our client in conjunction with this vacancy only. Also feel free to follow me on or connect with me on LinkedIn, just search Hannah Warrener, Searchability in Google! I look forward to hearing from you.

KEY SKILLS:

ASP.NET/C#/JavaScript/MVC Frameworks/SQL/Entity Framework

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