Working in the product team reporting to the E2E Test Manager the role is focused on the coordination, and E2E product integration testing of deliveries from different product groups. The objective is to ensure these products integrate and work together successfully within an audience service. The role combines planning and analysis with the practical execution of tests, and subsequent data analysis, to meet the needs of the role.

• Coordinating the development and deliveries from audience product lines, via product managers, to ensure there is a viable overall product solution (metering, reference and matching, Atria editing and validation)
• Specific focus initially on our Peoplemeter 7 development to ensure the different product deliveries integrate and work together to produce the expected functionality.
• Understand roadmaps and deliverables from across the product areas and coordinate how these combine together to deliver features and understand timelines for delivery of these integrated features.
• Coordinate meetings and communications between the product managers to ensure there is a shared view on architecture and a focus on ensuring the sum of the parts will deliver E2E
• Understand what testing has taken place on individual products and examine the outcome of the testing with a view to identifying potential problems before integration testing.
• Plan with the product managers how E2E testing of the multiple products that combine to deliver the solution can take place
• Produce plans for testing and coordinate with testers to implement these tests
• Carry out 'hands on' testing and data evaluation to ensure that the products integrate together and deliver the expected functionality
• Management and coordination with IT teams to ensure infrastructure perspective we have the ability to test E2E
• Support local markets by testing solution before delivery
• Capability to use tools, interfaces and files to facilitate detailed testing
• This role is not a substitute for engineering and IT testing - this role is ensuing that the products integrate and that key functionality works across products. The individual products themselves should already have been tested and demonstrated to work.
• Not a substitute for testing by service operational teams in their own particular environment. However this role ensures product integration testing has taken place so that we can be sure the products work together before progressing to this stage.

• Capable communicator able to understand complex technical detail and the 'big picture' or what the system needs to deliver.
• Comfortable working in a matrix team environment and able to influence and achieve results
• Able to make use of appropriate tools (e.g. Excel, Powerpoint, Confluence etc) to communicate status and architecture, and record outcomes.
• Understanding of metered audience measurement architecture and data at a detailed level
• Technical skills to run testing - comfortable logging on to Linux systems to interrogate files and in using Hive and Oracle databases to look at information
• Experience of testing on a Microsoft Azure environment

Working in the product team reporting to the E2E Test Manager the role is focused on the coordination, and E2E product integration testing of deliveries from different product groups. The objective is to ensure these products integrate and work together successfully within an audience service. The role combines planning and analysis with the practical execution of tests, and subsequent data analysis, to meet the needs of the role.

• Coordinating the development and deliveries from audience product lines, via product managers, to ensure there is a viable overall product solution (metering, reference and matching, Atria editing and validation)
• Specific focus initially on our Peoplemeter 7 development to ensure the different product deliveries integrate and work together to produce the expected functionality.
• Understand roadmaps and deliverables from across the product areas and coordinate how these combine together to deliver features and understand timelines for delivery of these integrated features.
• Coordinate meetings and communications between the product managers to ensure there is a shared view on architecture and a focus on ensuring the sum of the parts will deliver E2E
• Understand what testing has taken place on individual products and examine the outcome of the testing with a view to identifying potential problems before integration testing.
• Plan with the product managers how E2E testing of the multiple products that combine to deliver the solution can take place
• Produce plans for testing and coordinate with testers to implement these tests
• Carry out 'hands on' testing and data evaluation to ensure that the products integrate together and deliver the expected functionality
• Management and coordination with IT teams to ensure infrastructure perspective we have the ability to test E2E
• Support local markets by testing solution before delivery
• Capability to use tools, interfaces and files to facilitate detailed testing
• This role is not a substitute for engineering and IT testing - this role is ensuing that the products integrate and that key functionality works across products. The individual products themselves should already have been tested and demonstrated to work.
• Not a substitute for testing by service operational teams in their own particular environment. However this role ensures product integration testing has taken place so that we can be sure the products work together before progressing to this stage.

• Capable communicator able to understand complex technical detail and the 'big picture' or what the system needs to deliver.
• Comfortable working in a matrix team environment and able to influence and achieve results
• Able to make use of appropriate tools (e.g. Excel, Powerpoint, Confluence etc) to communicate status and architecture, and record outcomes.
• Understanding of metered audience measurement architecture and data at a detailed level
• Technical skills to run testing - comfortable logging on to Linux systems to interrogate files and in using Hive and Oracle databases to look at information
• Experience of testing on a Microsoft Azure environment

IT Systems Infrastructure Engineer

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Systems Infrastructure Engineer to join an international IT company based locally. My client is looking for a proactive, motivated IT Infrastructure Engineer to join their growing, successful team. This is a brilliant opportunity for an experienced IT Infrastructure Engineer who is looking to make a difference in a local company and take the next step in their career.

Benefits:

• Vibrant, relaxed work culture
• Free, car parking
• Training
• Progression opportunities internally

Responsibilities:

• Work alongside the Infrastructure Manager to deliver the Technical Plan and move the company forward
• Building and maintaining scalable, reliable and repeatable infrastructure
• Interfacing with multiple internal stakeholders including Development, Projects, Test and Support teams
• Interfacing with end users and external stakeholders to determine evolving needs
• Ensuring security and adherence to ISO 27001 security standards
• Flexibility to deal with out of hours issues on occasion

Technical Skills required:

• Advanced knowledge of Windows Server and Linux (at least one advanced level)
• Competent installing, configuring and maintaining services (Windows/Linux)
• Competent installing and managing web sever technology (Apache/IIS)
• Knowledge of the deployment of application server technologies (eg. Tomcat, JBoss)
• Strong knowledge of network design and implementation principles
• Advanced knowledge of communications device management and policies
• Experience of cloud platforms (Azure/ Amazon AWS)
• Experience with virtualisation tools (eg. VMWare/HyperV)
• Knowledge of DBMS solutions such as Oracle or SQLServer
• Knowledge of EDI principles and configuration of SFTP, HTTPS and digital certificates
• Knowledge of Infrastructure monitoring

If this opportunity sounds of interest and you have the above skills and experience, please apply for this position today!

Randstad Business Support acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Business Support is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

IT Systems Infrastructure Engineer

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Systems Infrastructure Engineer to join an international IT company based locally. My client is looking for a proactive, motivated IT Infrastructure Engineer to join their growing, successful team. This is a brilliant opportunity for an experienced IT Infrastructure Engineer who is looking to make a difference in a local company and take the next step in their career.

Benefits:

• Vibrant, relaxed work culture
• Free, car parking
• Training
• Progression opportunities internally

Responsibilities:

• Work alongside the Infrastructure Manager to deliver the Technical Plan and move the company forward
• Building and maintaining scalable, reliable and repeatable infrastructure
• Interfacing with multiple internal stakeholders including Development, Projects, Test and Support teams
• Interfacing with end users and external stakeholders to determine evolving needs
• Ensuring security and adherence to ISO 27001 security standards
• Flexibility to deal with out of hours issues on occasion

Technical Skills required:

• Advanced knowledge of Windows Server and Linux (at least one advanced level)
• Competent installing, configuring and maintaining services (Windows/Linux)
• Competent installing and managing web sever technology (Apache/IIS)
• Knowledge of the deployment of application server technologies (eg. Tomcat, JBoss)
• Strong knowledge of network design and implementation principles
• Advanced knowledge of communications device management and policies
• Experience of cloud platforms (Azure/ Amazon AWS)
• Experience with virtualisation tools (eg. VMWare/HyperV)
• Knowledge of DBMS solutions such as Oracle or SQLServer
• Knowledge of EDI principles and configuration of SFTP, HTTPS and digital certificates
• Knowledge of Infrastructure monitoring

If this opportunity sounds of interest and you have the above skills and experience, please apply for this position today!

Randstad Business Support acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Business Support is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

Do you enjoy working collaboratively, championing agile/scrum best practise focusing on continuous integration and delivery, whilst facilitating problem solving? Does being part of an innovative culture inspire you? Do you want to work for a company awarded Top Employers UK 2020? If so, please read on...

We are looking for a Java Developer who enjoys working within a Microservices architecture and within a community of practice.

What you will do:

You will work in a scaled agile environment to develop insurance solutions to brokers, third parties as well as direct to the public. Broadly, the role is to implement user stories into fantastic features, using your code craftsmanship skills. Helping you develop your craft and pass on this skill is equally important to us. You will work collaboratively, championing agile/scrum best practice focusing on continuous integration, delivery, whilst facilitating problem solving. It’s pretty fast paced here, we release software every 6 weeks, following an iteration of two, three weekly sprints. Automation is key part of what we do at CDL, you will use SOAP UI, Selenium to regroup and refactor, allowing quick changes to code, reducing duplication and improving maintainability.

You will promote development best practice, and work autonomously in a squad, driving product growth. We’re facing exciting growth at CDL, and continuous improvement is at heart of what we do. This is an exciting opportunity for a middleweight, or an experienced developer to join a rapidly growing organisation, investing significantly in its employees, and best engineering practices. We’re looking for enthusiastic, and passionate developers with an attitude to learn, collaborate, aspire, continuously improve, and thoroughly enjoy what they do. If this sounds like you, and you’re up for the challenge, then we would love to talk technologies with you.

What we’re looking for in our Java Developer:

- Java 7/8 Object Orientated Programming

- Agile methodologies, TDD, Pair Programming, Mob programming

- Spring, Spring Boot

- Experience of practising Test-Driven Development (TDD)

- Web Application Development

- An automation mindset, preferably with experience using Selenium and SoapUI

- Oracle, WebLogic,

- Eclipse, Jenkins,

- GIT

Bonus Points:

- Build tool and technologies like Gradle, Gradle would be beneficial.

- Microservices & serverless architecture, using AWS Lambda

- Container architecture, using Docker.

- DevOps – Experience working within CI/CD pipelines

- Machine Learning

- The list goes on but what we are really looking for are smart people that can make a difference in delivering value to our ever-expanding client base.

What we’ll offer you:

- Top employer for 4th year running.

- Flexible hours - core hours 10am to 4pm

- Remote Working - Home working options

- On-site free parking

- Open plan modern offices

- Shuttle bus to and from the station

- Excellent training and development platform

- Opportunities for career progression

- Subsidised restaurant

- 25 days holiday to start - rising

- Dress down policy

- Tax-free child-care vouchers

- Life and health assurance

- Pension scheme

- Community projects - CDL100 - 100 days throughout the year dedicated to community projects

- Games room and chill out zone

- Social activities, including summer BBQ and Christmas Parties. We have a team dedicated to running internal social activities such as comedy nights, canoeing, break out rooms and much more….

- Car valeting, Barber, Yoga classes, Boot camp and Massage services all on site

- Cycle to work scheme

- Shower and dry rooms on-site

CDL is one of the UK’s leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high-volume retail insurance sector. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company’s robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace.

If you would like to be part of driving a culture of excellence in everything we do, click ‘apply’ today to become our Java Developer!

Do you enjoy working collaboratively, championing agile/scrum best practise focusing on continuous integration and delivery, whilst facilitating problem solving? Does being part of an innovative culture inspire you? Do you want to work for a company awarded Top Employers UK 2020? If so, please read on...

We are looking for a Java Developer who enjoys working within a Microservices architecture and within a community of practice.

What you will do:

You will work in a scaled agile environment to develop insurance solutions to brokers, third parties as well as direct to the public. Broadly, the role is to implement user stories into fantastic features, using your code craftsmanship skills. Helping you develop your craft and pass on this skill is equally important to us. You will work collaboratively, championing agile/scrum best practice focusing on continuous integration, delivery, whilst facilitating problem solving. It’s pretty fast paced here, we release software every 6 weeks, following an iteration of two, three weekly sprints. Automation is key part of what we do at CDL, you will use SOAP UI, Selenium to regroup and refactor, allowing quick changes to code, reducing duplication and improving maintainability.

You will promote development best practice, and work autonomously in a squad, driving product growth. We’re facing exciting growth at CDL, and continuous improvement is at heart of what we do. This is an exciting opportunity for a middleweight, or an experienced developer to join a rapidly growing organisation, investing significantly in its employees, and best engineering practices. We’re looking for enthusiastic, and passionate developers with an attitude to learn, collaborate, aspire, continuously improve, and thoroughly enjoy what they do. If this sounds like you, and you’re up for the challenge, then we would love to talk technologies with you.

What we’re looking for in our Java Developer:

- Java 7/8 Object Orientated Programming

- Agile methodologies, TDD, Pair Programming, Mob programming

- Spring, Spring Boot

- Experience of practising Test-Driven Development (TDD)

- Web Application Development

- An automation mindset, preferably with experience using Selenium and SoapUI

- Oracle, WebLogic,

- Eclipse, Jenkins,

- GIT

Bonus Points:

- Build tool and technologies like Gradle, Gradle would be beneficial.

- Microservices & serverless architecture, using AWS Lambda

- Container architecture, using Docker.

- DevOps – Experience working within CI/CD pipelines

- Machine Learning

- The list goes on but what we are really looking for are smart people that can make a difference in delivering value to our ever-expanding client base.

What we’ll offer you:

- Top employer for 4th year running.

- Flexible hours - core hours 10am to 4pm

- Remote Working - Home working options

- On-site free parking

- Open plan modern offices

- Shuttle bus to and from the station

- Excellent training and development platform

- Opportunities for career progression

- Subsidised restaurant

- 25 days holiday to start - rising

- Dress down policy

- Tax-free child-care vouchers

- Life and health assurance

- Pension scheme

- Community projects - CDL100 - 100 days throughout the year dedicated to community projects

- Games room and chill out zone

- Social activities, including summer BBQ and Christmas Parties. We have a team dedicated to running internal social activities such as comedy nights, canoeing, break out rooms and much more….

- Car valeting, Barber, Yoga classes, Boot camp and Massage services all on site

- Cycle to work scheme

- Shower and dry rooms on-site

CDL is one of the UK’s leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high-volume retail insurance sector. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company’s robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace.

If you would like to be part of driving a culture of excellence in everything we do, click ‘apply’ today to become our Java Developer!

Xact Placements is working with a well-established company based in Hampshire constantly updating their products to incorporate the latest innovations and technologies to provide Revenue assurance and management, credit risk management and to protect from telecommunication fraud.

You will be a great addition to the Development team who will be able to enhance and improve the company’s revenue and risk management servers, user-interfaces and APIs.

Responsibilities:

• Create, maintain and test C++ server applications.
• Integrate solutions.
• Create design specifications and documentation.

Skills required:

• C++
• STL
• PL/SQL

Desirable skills:

• Boost
• Oracle
• Agile software development

Xact Placements is working with a well-established company based in Hampshire constantly updating their products to incorporate the latest innovations and technologies to provide Revenue assurance and management, credit risk management and to protect from telecommunication fraud.

You will be a great addition to the Development team who will be able to enhance and improve the company’s revenue and risk management servers, user-interfaces and APIs.

Responsibilities:

• Create, maintain and test C++ server applications.
• Integrate solutions.
• Create design specifications and documentation.

Skills required:

• C++
• STL
• PL/SQL

Desirable skills:

• Boost
• Oracle
• Agile software development