PHP Developer! Northampton! Up To £45K

Are you a PHP skilled web developer looking for an exciting new challenge for a leading digital environment? A vibrant digital agency who are well established, with 22 years of experience. Currently looking for an experienced PHP LAMP-stack developer with 2+ years of full time commercial experience to join our friendly development team where you can make a real contribution. They are constantly undertaking new and leading-edge developments to produce competitive advantages for a number of sophisticated sector-leading websites. This is a chance to work on a wide range of interesting projects!

The company's focus is providing services to SME's typically turning over between £500k-£100M and employing 3 - 150 people, who see development for them on the internet as integral to their ongoing business. The company provides programming, development, business process analysis/optimisation, digital creative design, marketing, SEO and support to enable and maximise the potential for these developments.

Anticipated salary is dependent upon experience and skill set. This is an important full-time permanent role, with excellent prospects for career progression.

Skills:

*Good English communications skills, able and willing to work well with colleagues and clients, understanding requirements and able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical persons.
*Team player, willing and able to contribute.
*PHP 7 & 5.6.
*GIT and Composer.
**JavaScript or Vanilla JavaScript, jQuery or bonus points for Vue JS
*Good working knowledge of HTML 5

Other Desirable Skills and a chance to work on:

*Testing Suite Experience with Unit testing, Selenium etc.
*API integration experience.
*Experience with other languages and frameworks
*Exposure Linux/Apache/MySQL Knowledge.
*Linux server admin
*AWS experience

Location is based in Northampton!

Salary: £30,000 - £45,000 Per Annum depending on skills and experience. (Flexible for the right candidate)
Benefits: 28 days holiday (including bank holiday), discounted health insurance.

If you are open to hearing about this opportunity, please call Kelvin on (phone number removed), alternatively you can submit your CV and a time schedule to call: (url removed)

For more information about Senitor and the opportunities we have to offer follow us on Twitter @SenitorIT

Senitor Associates Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

PHP Developer! Northampton! Up To £45K

Are you a PHP skilled web developer looking for an exciting new challenge for a leading digital environment? A vibrant digital agency who are well established, with 22 years of experience. Currently looking for an experienced PHP LAMP-stack developer with 2+ years of full time commercial experience to join our friendly development team where you can make a real contribution. They are constantly undertaking new and leading-edge developments to produce competitive advantages for a number of sophisticated sector-leading websites. This is a chance to work on a wide range of interesting projects!

The company's focus is providing services to SME's typically turning over between £500k-£100M and employing 3 - 150 people, who see development for them on the internet as integral to their ongoing business. The company provides programming, development, business process analysis/optimisation, digital creative design, marketing, SEO and support to enable and maximise the potential for these developments.

Anticipated salary is dependent upon experience and skill set. This is an important full-time permanent role, with excellent prospects for career progression.

Skills:

*Good English communications skills, able and willing to work well with colleagues and clients, understanding requirements and able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical persons.
*Team player, willing and able to contribute.
*PHP 7 & 5.6.
*GIT and Composer.
**JavaScript or Vanilla JavaScript, jQuery or bonus points for Vue JS
*Good working knowledge of HTML 5

Other Desirable Skills and a chance to work on:

*Testing Suite Experience with Unit testing, Selenium etc.
*API integration experience.
*Experience with other languages and frameworks
*Exposure Linux/Apache/MySQL Knowledge.
*Linux server admin
*AWS experience

Location is based in Northampton!

Salary: £30,000 - £45,000 Per Annum depending on skills and experience. (Flexible for the right candidate)
Benefits: 28 days holiday (including bank holiday), discounted health insurance.

If you are open to hearing about this opportunity, please call Kelvin on (phone number removed), alternatively you can submit your CV and a time schedule to call: (url removed)

For more information about Senitor and the opportunities we have to offer follow us on Twitter @SenitorIT

Senitor Associates Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Test Analyst required for a client based in Guildford that specialises in CRM solutions.

My client based in Guildford require a Test Analyst to join their growing team of testers. 

Their purpose has been built and developed over 18 years and has always been focused on their customers. Their customers' success is their success. They strive for innovation and strive to be on the cutting edge of technology and invest heavily in their product development.

The successful Test Analyst will be:

• Identifying and defining the required tests
• Monitoring scope coverage and evaluation of the tests 
• Designing, building and maintaining a functional test library, using either manual or automated tests
• Performing test executions' as agreed in the Test Plans.
• Complying with the agreed test methodology and standards to ensure good governance and record keeping

This Test Analyst will need:

• Excellent communicator, both written and verbal.
• Track record of self-motivation, flexibility and passion for learning
• Minimum of 1-2 years’ experience in a testing environment.
• Qualifications ISEB/ISTQB Foundation Level Certification
• Full understanding of the creation, execution, maintenance of test scripts together with reporting of test execution
• Working knowledge of test automation (6 months minimum) i.e. Selenium, MS Test
• Experience of using a test tool to manage scripting, execution of tests and defect management i.e. Quality Centre, Visual Studio Team Services

If the above sounds like role for you, please submit an up to date copy of your CV!!

Test Analyst required for a client based in Guildford that specialises in CRM solutions.

My client based in Guildford require a Test Analyst to join their growing team of testers. 

Their purpose has been built and developed over 18 years and has always been focused on their customers. Their customers' success is their success. They strive for innovation and strive to be on the cutting edge of technology and invest heavily in their product development.

The successful Test Analyst will be:

• Identifying and defining the required tests
• Monitoring scope coverage and evaluation of the tests 
• Designing, building and maintaining a functional test library, using either manual or automated tests
• Performing test executions' as agreed in the Test Plans.
• Complying with the agreed test methodology and standards to ensure good governance and record keeping

This Test Analyst will need:

• Excellent communicator, both written and verbal.
• Track record of self-motivation, flexibility and passion for learning
• Minimum of 1-2 years’ experience in a testing environment.
• Qualifications ISEB/ISTQB Foundation Level Certification
• Full understanding of the creation, execution, maintenance of test scripts together with reporting of test execution
• Working knowledge of test automation (6 months minimum) i.e. Selenium, MS Test
• Experience of using a test tool to manage scripting, execution of tests and defect management i.e. Quality Centre, Visual Studio Team Services

If the above sounds like role for you, please submit an up to date copy of your CV!!

Application Support Engineer, DevOps/Automation, Software Release Engineer, Software Support, Configuration, IIS, SQL, Scripting, Powershell, MSBuild, Bamboo, Jenkins, Selenium - 40K+/-

• Do you have experience of application support and/or IT?
• Have you got involved in the deployment of software applications?
• Would you like to developer DevOps skills?

Role: Working for this software house as an Application Support & Release Engineer you will be responsible for: Software Support, Creating builds; Deploying code; Configuration; Creating automated scripts; Change control and developing release and change process. Training is provided for the DevOps side of the role.

It is essential you have:

• Application Support / Software Support either Desktop or Web applications
• Understanding of designing, optimising, maintaining or improving software build and deployment pipelines (e.g. MSBuild, Bamboo, Jenkins, Selenium, PowerShell, Redgate)
• Knowledge and experience of automating tasks with PowerShell (or other scripting languages)
• Understanding of modern software development technologies, practices & environments
• T-SQL knowledge
• Networking & Infrastructure knowledge

You will find yourself working out of a modern office facility with free parking (also accessible by public transport).

In a nutshell - What we need from you is proven experience working on the release and deployment of customer-facing applications. You should have an excellent understanding of the software development lifecycle and key methodologies used in the delivery of software. The role will require a great deal of technical know-how to help create builds and automate the deployment of code.

This role will find you working with many different areas of the business including key stakeholders and therefore excellent communication skills are required.

Salary & Package: Base salary up to 40K +/-, 25 days holiday, free parking. The office is based in the Midlands, commutable from Nuneaton, Coventry and Leicester. Easy access from the M69. Must be able to drive, not accessible via public transport.

Candidates of all ages and backgrounds will be considered for this role. Ascent People is acting as an Employment Agency in respect of this vacancy.

Application Support Engineer, DevOps/Automation, Software Release Engineer, Software Support, Configuration, IIS, SQL, Scripting, Powershell, MSBuild, Bamboo, Jenkins, Selenium - 40K+/-

• Do you have experience of application support and/or IT?
• Have you got involved in the deployment of software applications?
• Would you like to developer DevOps skills?

Role: Working for this software house as an Application Support & Release Engineer you will be responsible for: Software Support, Creating builds; Deploying code; Configuration; Creating automated scripts; Change control and developing release and change process. Training is provided for the DevOps side of the role.

It is essential you have:

• Application Support / Software Support either Desktop or Web applications
• Understanding of designing, optimising, maintaining or improving software build and deployment pipelines (e.g. MSBuild, Bamboo, Jenkins, Selenium, PowerShell, Redgate)
• Knowledge and experience of automating tasks with PowerShell (or other scripting languages)
• Understanding of modern software development technologies, practices & environments
• T-SQL knowledge
• Networking & Infrastructure knowledge

You will find yourself working out of a modern office facility with free parking (also accessible by public transport).

In a nutshell - What we need from you is proven experience working on the release and deployment of customer-facing applications. You should have an excellent understanding of the software development lifecycle and key methodologies used in the delivery of software. The role will require a great deal of technical know-how to help create builds and automate the deployment of code.

This role will find you working with many different areas of the business including key stakeholders and therefore excellent communication skills are required.

Salary & Package: Base salary up to 40K +/-, 25 days holiday, free parking. The office is based in the Midlands, commutable from Nuneaton, Coventry and Leicester. Easy access from the M69. Must be able to drive, not accessible via public transport.

Candidates of all ages and backgrounds will be considered for this role. Ascent People is acting as an Employment Agency in respect of this vacancy.

DevOps and Unix Engineer - Croydon - Contract

This is a great opportunity for an experienced DevOps and Unix engineer, to join a growing, multi-skilled team supporting a range of customers with complex IT projects. You will be familiar with DevOps culture and with working in multi-skilled self-forming teams using Agile methodologies, having previously work in agile teams.

Your skills and knowledge will be used to instrumental for the installation of all Unix based infrastructure into the On-Prem and cloud solutions as well as configuring and optimising performance. You will also take responsibility for updating, troubleshooting and debugging hardware including making improvements to the current AD units On-Prem or to deployments in the cloud.

You will ideally possess the following background:

Mandatory - SC Clearance - ideally Home Office and already existing

• Developing and operating the infrastructure and software platforms for the data ingest and data science teams.
• Expertise in engineering bespoke big data applications
• Adoption of flexible production-grade infrastructure and platform deployment approaches including config management and software defined technology
• Coordination of discovery activities, evaluation and tool interoperability. This may include coordinating SMEs in a scrum team
• Storage solutions both On-Prem and in the Cloud including understanding cost efficiencies of both
• Agile methodologies, particularly working as part of a scrum team is essential
• DevOps culture, toolsets, technologies
• Ability to advise or make strategic suggestions for future platform technology, tooling, direction or strategy
• Excellent experience of AWS cloud platform, including migration strategies and approaches, microservices, docker, kubernetes and development, terraform, clouformation.
• Use of Confluence, Jira, Slack as collaboration tools and strong familiarity with CI/CD and testing tooling e.g Jenkins or Selenium amongst others.

If this position looks like a good match for you, please apply. Alternatively you can contact Patrick McNamara at Project People Ltd to discuss the role in more detail on (0117) (phone number removed) or e-mail on: (url removed)

Project People is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

DevOps and Unix Engineer - Croydon - Contract

This is a great opportunity for an experienced DevOps and Unix engineer, to join a growing, multi-skilled team supporting a range of customers with complex IT projects. You will be familiar with DevOps culture and with working in multi-skilled self-forming teams using Agile methodologies, having previously work in agile teams.

Your skills and knowledge will be used to instrumental for the installation of all Unix based infrastructure into the On-Prem and cloud solutions as well as configuring and optimising performance. You will also take responsibility for updating, troubleshooting and debugging hardware including making improvements to the current AD units On-Prem or to deployments in the cloud.

You will ideally possess the following background:

Mandatory - SC Clearance - ideally Home Office and already existing

• Developing and operating the infrastructure and software platforms for the data ingest and data science teams.
• Expertise in engineering bespoke big data applications
• Adoption of flexible production-grade infrastructure and platform deployment approaches including config management and software defined technology
• Coordination of discovery activities, evaluation and tool interoperability. This may include coordinating SMEs in a scrum team
• Storage solutions both On-Prem and in the Cloud including understanding cost efficiencies of both
• Agile methodologies, particularly working as part of a scrum team is essential
• DevOps culture, toolsets, technologies
• Ability to advise or make strategic suggestions for future platform technology, tooling, direction or strategy
• Excellent experience of AWS cloud platform, including migration strategies and approaches, microservices, docker, kubernetes and development, terraform, clouformation.
• Use of Confluence, Jira, Slack as collaboration tools and strong familiarity with CI/CD and testing tooling e.g Jenkins or Selenium amongst others.

If this position looks like a good match for you, please apply. Alternatively you can contact Patrick McNamara at Project People Ltd to discuss the role in more detail on (0117) (phone number removed) or e-mail on: (url removed)

Project People is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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

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