Senior .Net Developer/ Full Stack C# Developer, Analyst Programmer, .Net Core, AWS/Azure, Dotnet / C#/ .Net, Microsoft Stack, ASP.Net, MVC, WEB, API, JavaScript/Angular 45-55K + package

• Are you a Senior Developer who can be hugely influential in the design and development of both mobile and WEB applications using .Net Core, MVC, and Xamarin?
• Do you need flex around start/finish times?
• Can you take a spec and run with a project from start to finish?

Role: This Senior .Net Developer / Full Stack C# Developer role will have you working in a modern development environment embracing .Net Core & Cloud technologies. Writing clean code that is accessed by the full team must be high on your agenda. There will be cross training opportunities so we are looking for someone who can still be trained and can also listen well. All layer development including JavaScript/Angular JS.

Technical environment:

• .Net Core (you don't need to have Core experience just solid ASP.Net MVC)
• Visual Studio
• GIT lab
• Java Script / Angular JS / MVC
• HTML/CSS
• Azure
• Xamarin - mobile tech

An impressive history in C#/ ASP.Net development is required.

This Senior Developer will find you working on medium / large WEB enterprise solutions with a team of developers & testers in the UK.

Considered a plus: Experience of developing Azure or AWS, Xamarin or iOS/Android - not a necessity.

Company: An award-winning fintech client helping shape our future. A young company with a history spanning 5 years. Modern office facility that is close to the motorway network and accessible via public transport. Close to shops and restaurants. A pleasant environment where there is banter and fun as well a getting your head down and producing cutting edge tech - its all good! The Development Manager trusts his team will do what they say they can do, no micro-managing here.

Salary / Package - 45-55K and generous package including pension, Healthcare, 25 days holiday. Flex around start/finish times. Some home-working. They are located in the West Midlands area, easily commutable from Birmingham, Coventry and Northampton.

If you would like to be considered for this role then please send your CV today. Applications from all ages and backgrounds will be considered. Ascent People Ltd is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy

Senior .Net Developer/ Full Stack C# Developer, Analyst Programmer, .Net Core, AWS/Azure, Dotnet / C#/ .Net, Microsoft Stack, ASP.Net, MVC, WEB, API, JavaScript/Angular 45-55K + package

• Are you a Senior Developer who can be hugely influential in the design and development of both mobile and WEB applications using .Net Core, MVC, and Xamarin?
• Do you need flex around start/finish times?
• Can you take a spec and run with a project from start to finish?

Role: This Senior .Net Developer / Full Stack C# Developer role will have you working in a modern development environment embracing .Net Core & Cloud technologies. Writing clean code that is accessed by the full team must be high on your agenda. There will be cross training opportunities so we are looking for someone who can still be trained and can also listen well. All layer development including JavaScript/Angular JS.

Technical environment:

• .Net Core (you don't need to have Core experience just solid ASP.Net MVC)
• Visual Studio
• GIT lab
• Java Script / Angular JS / MVC
• HTML/CSS
• Azure
• Xamarin - mobile tech

An impressive history in C#/ ASP.Net development is required.

This Senior Developer will find you working on medium / large WEB enterprise solutions with a team of developers & testers in the UK.

Considered a plus: Experience of developing Azure or AWS, Xamarin or iOS/Android - not a necessity.

Company: An award-winning fintech client helping shape our future. A young company with a history spanning 5 years. Modern office facility that is close to the motorway network and accessible via public transport. Close to shops and restaurants. A pleasant environment where there is banter and fun as well a getting your head down and producing cutting edge tech - its all good! The Development Manager trusts his team will do what they say they can do, no micro-managing here.

Salary / Package - 45-55K and generous package including pension, Healthcare, 25 days holiday. Flex around start/finish times. Some home-working. They are located in the West Midlands area, easily commutable from Birmingham, Coventry and Northampton.

If you would like to be considered for this role then please send your CV today. Applications from all ages and backgrounds will be considered. Ascent People Ltd is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy

Our client is an expanding AI company based in South Cambridge, who utilise innovative technology for industries that improve the world around us, such as life sciences and health care. They utilise bleeding edge methods for transforming content into data utilising machine learning. In this role, they are looking for someone who is keen to learn and grow, and your experience level isn¿t important, its all about your attitude.

Due to growth, they are currently recruiting for Java Developer to join their highly skilled team. In this role, you will thrive in solving complex technical problems for developing new features and maintaining existing ones. You will integrate with multiple APIs and data points and will have a key role in aiding the product in its development.

This business have a really fun environment, they hold regular team events and social occasions and create a family feel ,where your colleagues are also your friends.

You
Experience of developing and deploying in Java
Spring based frameworks
Experience in working on Linux servers.
Experience with building RESTful web services

Please apply online for immediate consideration.

Our client is an expanding AI company based in South Cambridge, who utilise innovative technology for industries that improve the world around us, such as life sciences and health care. They utilise bleeding edge methods for transforming content into data utilising machine learning. In this role, they are looking for someone who is keen to learn and grow, and your experience level isn¿t important, its all about your attitude.

Due to growth, they are currently recruiting for Java Developer to join their highly skilled team. In this role, you will thrive in solving complex technical problems for developing new features and maintaining existing ones. You will integrate with multiple APIs and data points and will have a key role in aiding the product in its development.

This business have a really fun environment, they hold regular team events and social occasions and create a family feel ,where your colleagues are also your friends.

You
Experience of developing and deploying in Java
Spring based frameworks
Experience in working on Linux servers.
Experience with building RESTful web services

Please apply online for immediate consideration.

Lead QA Analyst

Lead QA Analyst / Test Analyst / Tester. A Chippenham based IT solution provider is looking for a Lead QA Analyst / Test Analyst / Tester to join the team. The Lead QA Analyst / Test Analyst / Tester's role is to develop and establish quality assurance standards and measures for the company's exciting cloud based health integration services. You will have experience of working in a DevOps environment, ideally with a drive towards continuous delivery and test automation, including assurance of both bespoke software products and cloud platforms.

This will include engagement from an early stage with stakeholders e.g. customers, DevOps, Developers and our Services Team, to understand the functionality of the products, resulting in ownership of all QA activities, including ensuring appropriate test coverage, improved or new test plans and test scripts. A particular focus on automation is required to enable tracking of defects and fixes in software application development, information systems, and cloud platforms.

The QA Analyst / Test Analyst / Tester will apply proven analytical and problem-solving skills to help validate IT processes through careful testing in order to maximize the benefit of our products and services.

The QA Analyst / Test Analyst / Tester responsibilities:

• Support for software development project work and internal projects.
• Advice and guidance demonstrating an understanding of business issues.
• Production of test criteria, conditions and automation scripts for all types of testing.
• Undertaking testing as directed.
• Analysis and reporting of testing activities.
• Liaison with customer test teams.

Strategy and Planning

• Develop and establish quality assurance measures and testing standards for new applications, products, and/or enhancements to existing applications throughout their development/product lifecycles.
• Prepare and deliver reports, recommendations, or alternatives that address existing and potential trouble areas in IT systems and projects across the organisation.

Operational Management

• Strong team leadership and building effective teams
• Ensure adherence to established QA standards for software development, application integration, and information system performance, and corresponding documentation.
• Provide focus and guidance on direction of automation and ensure a high level of test coverage.
• Create and execute test plans and scripts that will determine optimal application performance according to specifications.
• Verify and revise quality assurance standards as needed.
• Ensure that testing activities allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfil end-user requirements, and identify existing or potential issues.
• Collaborate with software/DevOps personnel in application testing, such as system, unit, regression, load, and acceptance testing methods.
• Drive improvements of applications to software developers or Technical Leads.
• Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and management.
• Analyse formal test results in order to discover and report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws.
• Assist in the development of change control processes, practices, and guidelines for new and existing technologies.

The Lead QA Analyst / Test Analyst / Tester will need the following skills:

• Test Execution primarily with use of automated tools, analysis and reporting of test results
• Test strategy development, creation of test plans and specifications.
• Production of Test Scenarios and Scripts, test data definition and management.
• A degree ideally with IT/scientific content

It's desirable that the Lead QA Analyst / Test Analyst / Tester will have the following skills:

• TestRails, TeamCity
• Bitbucket and Atlassian Stack
• XML, SOAP, ebXML
• ReadyAPI/SoapUI
• Apache JMeter
• Azure, Kubernetes
• Experience with Java and .NET test frameworks (e.g. TestNG, Mockito, Selenium, Geb/Spock, xunit, nunit, moq, autofixture)

The Lead QA Analyst / Test Analyst / Tester will need the following experience:

• Working within an Agile methodology.
• Experience with TDD and User Stories.
• Working within PRINCE 2 methodology.
• IT application testing, including automated testing.
• Experience of writing Technical Documentation.
• Experience of working within a Quality System.

The Lead QA Analyst / Test Analyst / Tester salary is up to £46k depending on experience plus benefits and training

Proactive People is an employment agency and employment business

Lead QA Analyst

Lead QA Analyst / Test Analyst / Tester. A Chippenham based IT solution provider is looking for a Lead QA Analyst / Test Analyst / Tester to join the team. The Lead QA Analyst / Test Analyst / Tester's role is to develop and establish quality assurance standards and measures for the company's exciting cloud based health integration services. You will have experience of working in a DevOps environment, ideally with a drive towards continuous delivery and test automation, including assurance of both bespoke software products and cloud platforms.

This will include engagement from an early stage with stakeholders e.g. customers, DevOps, Developers and our Services Team, to understand the functionality of the products, resulting in ownership of all QA activities, including ensuring appropriate test coverage, improved or new test plans and test scripts. A particular focus on automation is required to enable tracking of defects and fixes in software application development, information systems, and cloud platforms.

The QA Analyst / Test Analyst / Tester will apply proven analytical and problem-solving skills to help validate IT processes through careful testing in order to maximize the benefit of our products and services.

The QA Analyst / Test Analyst / Tester responsibilities:

• Support for software development project work and internal projects.
• Advice and guidance demonstrating an understanding of business issues.
• Production of test criteria, conditions and automation scripts for all types of testing.
• Undertaking testing as directed.
• Analysis and reporting of testing activities.
• Liaison with customer test teams.

Strategy and Planning

• Develop and establish quality assurance measures and testing standards for new applications, products, and/or enhancements to existing applications throughout their development/product lifecycles.
• Prepare and deliver reports, recommendations, or alternatives that address existing and potential trouble areas in IT systems and projects across the organisation.

Operational Management

• Strong team leadership and building effective teams
• Ensure adherence to established QA standards for software development, application integration, and information system performance, and corresponding documentation.
• Provide focus and guidance on direction of automation and ensure a high level of test coverage.
• Create and execute test plans and scripts that will determine optimal application performance according to specifications.
• Verify and revise quality assurance standards as needed.
• Ensure that testing activities allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfil end-user requirements, and identify existing or potential issues.
• Collaborate with software/DevOps personnel in application testing, such as system, unit, regression, load, and acceptance testing methods.
• Drive improvements of applications to software developers or Technical Leads.
• Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and management.
• Analyse formal test results in order to discover and report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws.
• Assist in the development of change control processes, practices, and guidelines for new and existing technologies.

The Lead QA Analyst / Test Analyst / Tester will need the following skills:

• Test Execution primarily with use of automated tools, analysis and reporting of test results
• Test strategy development, creation of test plans and specifications.
• Production of Test Scenarios and Scripts, test data definition and management.
• A degree ideally with IT/scientific content

It's desirable that the Lead QA Analyst / Test Analyst / Tester will have the following skills:

• TestRails, TeamCity
• Bitbucket and Atlassian Stack
• XML, SOAP, ebXML
• ReadyAPI/SoapUI
• Apache JMeter
• Azure, Kubernetes
• Experience with Java and .NET test frameworks (e.g. TestNG, Mockito, Selenium, Geb/Spock, xunit, nunit, moq, autofixture)

The Lead QA Analyst / Test Analyst / Tester will need the following experience:

• Working within an Agile methodology.
• Experience with TDD and User Stories.
• Working within PRINCE 2 methodology.
• IT application testing, including automated testing.
• Experience of writing Technical Documentation.
• Experience of working within a Quality System.

The Lead QA Analyst / Test Analyst / Tester salary is up to £46k depending on experience plus benefits and training

Proactive People is an employment agency and employment business

Senior Java Software Developer
Crawley
£45-75k
VR/02731R

Reporting to the Development Manager, you will be working within a team of highly experienced developers who are engaged in ensuring consistent product functionality and enhancing our client’s application to ensure it stays at the forefront of the field. You will have 5-7 years of commercial experience developing web applications in Java SE or EE and several years of experience acting in the capacity of a design authority. This role will give you an opportunity to fully harness your software engineering skills. You will review, supervise, and provide guidance on other team members’ proposed designs, in addition to proposing and orchestrating top- and low-level design decisions yourself.

Our client is a fast-growing and profitable privately-owned company based in Crawley, West Sussex. Their portfolio of cloud-based real-time call and contact analytics software is delivered through their network of IT and telecoms partners around the world and they have over 4,000 active customer sites globally. They are proud to have been recognised within the industry, winning various awards in 2019. They are part of the Cisco Partner Ecosystem and a member of the Cisco Solution Partner Program.
This role would be suitable for a highly skilled software engineer looking to actively apply their expert software engineering design authority skills. You should have extensive commercial experience being a product and architectural design authority and must also be able to demonstrate that you have designed and developed web applications in a range of technologies and programming languages. You should also be highly expert in the understanding and knowledge in ‘programming internals’ such as the management of data structures, text string management resources, network connectivity, and other logic and algorithmic areas.

Key Responsibilities
•    Design authority responsibility across numerous technical areas of our product 
•    Full software lifecycle involvement in enhancing the web application, e.g. designing, coding and maintaining server-side components in Java
•    Client-side JavaScript component development
•    Run and maintain test scenarios, in addition to addressing defects
•    Full participation in Agile software development activities, i.e. daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and backlog creation activities
•    Write supporting design and technical documentation
•    Dynamic web page generation using Java Server Pages
•    Linux configuration and administration skills
•    Linux Shell scripting knowledge
•    Knowledge of databases and SQL

Qualifications and Experience
•    3+ years of commercial experience being a product and architectural design authority
•    5+ years of commercial experience developing multi-threaded server-side applications using Oracle Java, including exceptional knowledge of Generic Programming
•    Multi-threaded server-side web application development using Java in a Servlet web container using an MVC architecture-based framework such as Struts, JSF, etc.
•    Knowledge of HTML, full CSS box model, and JavaScript to create client-side dynamic web page content
•    Good English communication skills, verbal and written

Senior Java Software Developer
Crawley
£45-75k
VR/02731R

Reporting to the Development Manager, you will be working within a team of highly experienced developers who are engaged in ensuring consistent product functionality and enhancing our client’s application to ensure it stays at the forefront of the field. You will have 5-7 years of commercial experience developing web applications in Java SE or EE and several years of experience acting in the capacity of a design authority. This role will give you an opportunity to fully harness your software engineering skills. You will review, supervise, and provide guidance on other team members’ proposed designs, in addition to proposing and orchestrating top- and low-level design decisions yourself.

Our client is a fast-growing and profitable privately-owned company based in Crawley, West Sussex. Their portfolio of cloud-based real-time call and contact analytics software is delivered through their network of IT and telecoms partners around the world and they have over 4,000 active customer sites globally. They are proud to have been recognised within the industry, winning various awards in 2019. They are part of the Cisco Partner Ecosystem and a member of the Cisco Solution Partner Program.
This role would be suitable for a highly skilled software engineer looking to actively apply their expert software engineering design authority skills. You should have extensive commercial experience being a product and architectural design authority and must also be able to demonstrate that you have designed and developed web applications in a range of technologies and programming languages. You should also be highly expert in the understanding and knowledge in ‘programming internals’ such as the management of data structures, text string management resources, network connectivity, and other logic and algorithmic areas.

Key Responsibilities
•    Design authority responsibility across numerous technical areas of our product 
•    Full software lifecycle involvement in enhancing the web application, e.g. designing, coding and maintaining server-side components in Java
•    Client-side JavaScript component development
•    Run and maintain test scenarios, in addition to addressing defects
•    Full participation in Agile software development activities, i.e. daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and backlog creation activities
•    Write supporting design and technical documentation
•    Dynamic web page generation using Java Server Pages
•    Linux configuration and administration skills
•    Linux Shell scripting knowledge
•    Knowledge of databases and SQL

Qualifications and Experience
•    3+ years of commercial experience being a product and architectural design authority
•    5+ years of commercial experience developing multi-threaded server-side applications using Oracle Java, including exceptional knowledge of Generic Programming
•    Multi-threaded server-side web application development using Java in a Servlet web container using an MVC architecture-based framework such as Struts, JSF, etc.
•    Knowledge of HTML, full CSS box model, and JavaScript to create client-side dynamic web page content
•    Good English communication skills, verbal and written

Profile:

• 5+ years of experience designing and building a production-level web application, including:
  • Great experience across the board with a strong depth of knowledge in Java- Deep architectural understanding of web applications
  • Great creative and innovative problem-solving skills
  • Initiative and the ability to work independently and in a team
  • Interest to learn more about new technologies (such as languages and frameworks)
  • Great experience across the board with a strong depth of knowledge in two of the following technologies: Java and Javascript (ReactJS)

The candidate needs to show:

• Keen interest in open source and learning new technologies
• Understanding of how to build performant, decoupled, testable, maintainable code
• Enjoyment of sharing knowledge with teammates, and working collaboratively when you need help

Aside from strong technical prowess including hands-on coding ability, the candidate should have a deep understanding of architecture and an ability to plan for changes. Personality-wise, good with "fixing the plane while in flight" (not just greenfield solutions. Finally, the candidate should be an effective communicator, able to articulate technical & architectural know-how in a way that will influence other members of the team

Nice to have:

• Some Industry experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GAE, Azure)
• Strong SQL (RDBMS)
• Having experience in writing apps for the Atlassian marketplace.
• Experience with monitoring techniques and tools.
• Experience with continuous delivery for production environment.
• Experience with agile software development methodologies like Kanban or Scrum

Profile:

• 5+ years of experience designing and building a production-level web application, including:
  • Great experience across the board with a strong depth of knowledge in Java- Deep architectural understanding of web applications
  • Great creative and innovative problem-solving skills
  • Initiative and the ability to work independently and in a team
  • Interest to learn more about new technologies (such as languages and frameworks)
  • Great experience across the board with a strong depth of knowledge in two of the following technologies: Java and Javascript (ReactJS)

The candidate needs to show:

• Keen interest in open source and learning new technologies
• Understanding of how to build performant, decoupled, testable, maintainable code
• Enjoyment of sharing knowledge with teammates, and working collaboratively when you need help

Aside from strong technical prowess including hands-on coding ability, the candidate should have a deep understanding of architecture and an ability to plan for changes. Personality-wise, good with "fixing the plane while in flight" (not just greenfield solutions. Finally, the candidate should be an effective communicator, able to articulate technical & architectural know-how in a way that will influence other members of the team

Nice to have:

• Some Industry experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GAE, Azure)
• Strong SQL (RDBMS)
• Having experience in writing apps for the Atlassian marketplace.
• Experience with monitoring techniques and tools.
• Experience with continuous delivery for production environment.
• Experience with agile software development methodologies like Kanban or Scrum