Test Analyst 

As a Test Analyst you will join an established Test Team function responsible for providing software testing services across the business. Key accountabilities will include functional and non-functional (manual and automated) testing including planning, scripting, execution and progress reporting. 

About you
The successful Test Analyst will be ISTQB Foundation (or equivalent) accredited or will have similar testing knowledge and experience. You will also have a strong understanding of the Software Delivery Life Cycle and hands on experience of the end-to-end testing process including static analysis, test design, scripting, execution and defect management.

Any of the following would be beneficial:
- IT specific related Degree/Higher Education Qualification (or equivalent);
- knowledge of financial services products (specifically, Mortgages, Loans, Investments or Insurance);
- knowledge of JIRA and/or Zephyr Enterprise;
- experience of using automation testing tools (particularly SoapUI and Selenium);
- experience of Performance Testing tools including J-Meter.

Reward
In you will receive a salary of between £25,000 to £30,000 plus a profit related bonus scheme, 24 days annual leave and life assurance of four times your salary. On completion of the probationary period you can join the group pension plan and obtain up to a 6% match contribution into your pension plan. Access to private medical cover is also available and a flexible benefits scheme can also be enjoyed.

What's in it for you?
Join a growing company at the cutting edge of software and business services
Enormous career potential - the company is growing year on year
My client's values of integrity, teamwork, pioneering and determination reflect their priorities to employees
Continuous learning and development is a key part of their culture and a variety of training options are available to support your career development

Please apply either by using the link provided or by emailing your CV direct to me. Alternatively, you can call for more information on the number shown below.

Easton Haines Consultancy is a specialist recruitment business for the IT industry. No terminology in the advertisement is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary or contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment business.

Please note that, unfortunately, due to the high level of applications, we are only able to respond to those candidates whose CVs match the job requirements.

Please note that by applying for this role you give Easton Haines authority to process your data in respect of this specific role and to notify you of other suitable job opportunities; we will not share your data with third parties without your prior agreement and out Privacy Policy can be viewed on our website (url removed)

By applying for this role you accept the Jobzooma terms and conditions that can be found on our website and agree to receive email notification of other suitable jobs

Test Analyst 

As a Test Analyst you will join an established Test Team function responsible for providing software testing services across the business. Key accountabilities will include functional and non-functional (manual and automated) testing including planning, scripting, execution and progress reporting. 

About you
The successful Test Analyst will be ISTQB Foundation (or equivalent) accredited or will have similar testing knowledge and experience. You will also have a strong understanding of the Software Delivery Life Cycle and hands on experience of the end-to-end testing process including static analysis, test design, scripting, execution and defect management.

Any of the following would be beneficial:
- IT specific related Degree/Higher Education Qualification (or equivalent);
- knowledge of financial services products (specifically, Mortgages, Loans, Investments or Insurance);
- knowledge of JIRA and/or Zephyr Enterprise;
- experience of using automation testing tools (particularly SoapUI and Selenium);
- experience of Performance Testing tools including J-Meter.

Reward
In you will receive a salary of between £25,000 to £30,000 plus a profit related bonus scheme, 24 days annual leave and life assurance of four times your salary. On completion of the probationary period you can join the group pension plan and obtain up to a 6% match contribution into your pension plan. Access to private medical cover is also available and a flexible benefits scheme can also be enjoyed.

What's in it for you?
Join a growing company at the cutting edge of software and business services
Enormous career potential - the company is growing year on year
My client's values of integrity, teamwork, pioneering and determination reflect their priorities to employees
Continuous learning and development is a key part of their culture and a variety of training options are available to support your career development

Please apply either by using the link provided or by emailing your CV direct to me. Alternatively, you can call for more information on the number shown below.

Easton Haines Consultancy is a specialist recruitment business for the IT industry. No terminology in the advertisement is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary or contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment business.

Please note that, unfortunately, due to the high level of applications, we are only able to respond to those candidates whose CVs match the job requirements.

Please note that by applying for this role you give Easton Haines authority to process your data in respect of this specific role and to notify you of other suitable job opportunities; we will not share your data with third parties without your prior agreement and out Privacy Policy can be viewed on our website (url removed)

By applying for this role you accept the Jobzooma terms and conditions that can be found on our website and agree to receive email notification of other suitable jobs

Software Testing Team Lead - Agile - Automation - London

A QA Lead / Software Testing Team Lead with agile, automated software testing, bug fixing and ideally Selenium web driver is required by a leading software company based in West Central London. The ideal candidate will have the following experience

• Experience of leading a QA team within a fast-paced development environment
• Software testing, including functional, performance testing, regression and usability testing
• Automation experience for heavily UI focussed web sites/apps using tools such as Selenium
• Experience of automating API through SOAP UI etc.
• Writing test plans and test cases & experience of databases, data modelling, and SQL.
• Working in an Agile environment & bug tracking tools e.g. JIRA or Bugzilla
• Experience of analysing requirements and documentation
• Ability to motivate and coach more junior Software Testers / QA's

Desirables:

• Knowledge of Java for test automation
• Experience of Security testing
• Strong stakeholder management

As the Lead Software Test Engineer / QA Software Testing Team Lead you will become the focal point of the software testing team. The client will provide a commitment to ongoing professional development and are looking for you to do the same through self-learning, professional training, attending conferences etc. You should be willing to collaborate with a variety of stakeholders to make sure their software delivers value to the customer base. This role sits in a diverse software team and you will be working on multiple projects in a technical and interesting industry.

My client is looking to pay a starting salary of between £50,000 - £55,000 + Benefits. To apply send your CV to Katrina.rajah @ (url removed) or press apply now.

Keywords: QA Manager - QA Team Lead - Lead Software Tester - Senior Software Test Analyst - Agile - Automation - Selenium - QA Team Leader - London

Circle Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Earn yourself a referral bonus if you refer somebody else who fills the role! We also offer an iPad if you refer a new client to us and we recruit for them. Follow us on Facebook - Circle Recruitment , Twitter - @Circle_Rec and LinkedIn - Circle Recruitment.

Software Testing Team Lead - Agile - Automation - London

A QA Lead / Software Testing Team Lead with agile, automated software testing, bug fixing and ideally Selenium web driver is required by a leading software company based in West Central London. The ideal candidate will have the following experience

• Experience of leading a QA team within a fast-paced development environment
• Software testing, including functional, performance testing, regression and usability testing
• Automation experience for heavily UI focussed web sites/apps using tools such as Selenium
• Experience of automating API through SOAP UI etc.
• Writing test plans and test cases & experience of databases, data modelling, and SQL.
• Working in an Agile environment & bug tracking tools e.g. JIRA or Bugzilla
• Experience of analysing requirements and documentation
• Ability to motivate and coach more junior Software Testers / QA's

Desirables:

• Knowledge of Java for test automation
• Experience of Security testing
• Strong stakeholder management

As the Lead Software Test Engineer / QA Software Testing Team Lead you will become the focal point of the software testing team. The client will provide a commitment to ongoing professional development and are looking for you to do the same through self-learning, professional training, attending conferences etc. You should be willing to collaborate with a variety of stakeholders to make sure their software delivers value to the customer base. This role sits in a diverse software team and you will be working on multiple projects in a technical and interesting industry.

My client is looking to pay a starting salary of between £50,000 - £55,000 + Benefits. To apply send your CV to Katrina.rajah @ (url removed) or press apply now.

Keywords: QA Manager - QA Team Lead - Lead Software Tester - Senior Software Test Analyst - Agile - Automation - Selenium - QA Team Leader - London

Circle Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Earn yourself a referral bonus if you refer somebody else who fills the role! We also offer an iPad if you refer a new client to us and we recruit for them. Follow us on Facebook - Circle Recruitment , Twitter - @Circle_Rec and LinkedIn - Circle Recruitment.

DevOps Engineer

 Milton Keynes

£65-£70K plus extensive benefits package

 Position summary:

This role is a new vacancy within the Digital Transformation program of a mature client engagement. Working with the product development team using SAFe Agile framework, the key responsibility of the successful candidate will be to design and implement DevOps practices.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work with a diverse team on a cutting-edge digital transformation program to modernise an existing product and implement this within a top tier financial service client.

 Required qualifications for this role:

The DevOps Engineer should come from a DevOps background and be technically adept in configuration management tools, continuous development, Linux environments and have experience of delivering automation within a cloud infrastructure.

The DevOps Engineer must demonstrate a systematic and thorough approach to their work activities, identifying deficiencies, while also maintaining a balance between process adherence and pragmatism, assessing the assurance requirements of the client, the project and Company against value. Given the breadth of their activities, they must also demonstrate a wide-ranging awareness of the overall goals of assurance in driving project improvement and success.

Key Skills required include:

•         Years of experience building great software using updated tools

•         Experience of working within a product development team implementing DevOps

•         Visionary skills, Excellent communication and Leadership mindset

•         Up-to-date knowledge about tools and technologies

•         Solid understanding of concepts

•         The inspirational approach to team management

•         Strong operational experience

•         Extraordinary cross-functional headship skills

•         Effective problem-solving expertise

•         Configuration management proficiency

•         Strong knowledge of Linux based systems

Desirable Skills include:

•         Working within financial services organisation especially experience of Asset Finance industry.

•         Experience of working within a SAFe Agile framework

•         Able to design a system using an Agile / DevOps methodology

•         Comfortable explaining DevOps practices to clients including common challenges

•         Extensive and detailed understanding of automation technologies including build, configuration, test, deployment, delivery and monitoring

•         Can perform and manage Cloud deployments

•         Mange the continuous delivery of a production system

•         Experience with configuration management tools such as GitHub and Bitbucket

•         Knowledge of cloud technologies such as Azure

•         Build Scripting: Pearl/ JavaScript / Ant / Maven

•         Test Automation: Selenium or similar

•         Continuous Integration: Managing Jenkins / TeamCity or similar

•         Static Code Analysis: SonarQube or similar

Job role responsibilities:

The ideal candidate will be required to carry out activities including:

•         Designing and Implementing DevOps practices

•         Analysing, executing, and streamlining DevOps practices

•         Automating processes with the right tools

•         Facilitating development process and operations

•         Establishing a suitable DevOps channel across the organization

•         Setting up a continuous build environment to speed up software development and deployment process

•         Architecting overall, comprehensive, and efficient practices

•         Guiding developers and operation teams in case of an issue

•         Monitoring, reviewing, and managing technical operations

•         Manage teams with a leadership mindset

About the company:

Our client is a global Tier 1 company involved in many leading mission critical projects. They are highly regarded within the industry and are one of the largest independent technology & business services firms in the world.

They consider employees as highly valued members of the business and offer extensive progression opportunities for those wishing to move further in their career on a local, national or global scale.

DevOps Engineer

 Milton Keynes

£65-£70K plus extensive benefits package

 Position summary:

This role is a new vacancy within the Digital Transformation program of a mature client engagement. Working with the product development team using SAFe Agile framework, the key responsibility of the successful candidate will be to design and implement DevOps practices.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work with a diverse team on a cutting-edge digital transformation program to modernise an existing product and implement this within a top tier financial service client.

 Required qualifications for this role:

The DevOps Engineer should come from a DevOps background and be technically adept in configuration management tools, continuous development, Linux environments and have experience of delivering automation within a cloud infrastructure.

The DevOps Engineer must demonstrate a systematic and thorough approach to their work activities, identifying deficiencies, while also maintaining a balance between process adherence and pragmatism, assessing the assurance requirements of the client, the project and Company against value. Given the breadth of their activities, they must also demonstrate a wide-ranging awareness of the overall goals of assurance in driving project improvement and success.

Key Skills required include:

•         Years of experience building great software using updated tools

•         Experience of working within a product development team implementing DevOps

•         Visionary skills, Excellent communication and Leadership mindset

•         Up-to-date knowledge about tools and technologies

•         Solid understanding of concepts

•         The inspirational approach to team management

•         Strong operational experience

•         Extraordinary cross-functional headship skills

•         Effective problem-solving expertise

•         Configuration management proficiency

•         Strong knowledge of Linux based systems

Desirable Skills include:

•         Working within financial services organisation especially experience of Asset Finance industry.

•         Experience of working within a SAFe Agile framework

•         Able to design a system using an Agile / DevOps methodology

•         Comfortable explaining DevOps practices to clients including common challenges

•         Extensive and detailed understanding of automation technologies including build, configuration, test, deployment, delivery and monitoring

•         Can perform and manage Cloud deployments

•         Mange the continuous delivery of a production system

•         Experience with configuration management tools such as GitHub and Bitbucket

•         Knowledge of cloud technologies such as Azure

•         Build Scripting: Pearl/ JavaScript / Ant / Maven

•         Test Automation: Selenium or similar

•         Continuous Integration: Managing Jenkins / TeamCity or similar

•         Static Code Analysis: SonarQube or similar

Job role responsibilities:

The ideal candidate will be required to carry out activities including:

•         Designing and Implementing DevOps practices

•         Analysing, executing, and streamlining DevOps practices

•         Automating processes with the right tools

•         Facilitating development process and operations

•         Establishing a suitable DevOps channel across the organization

•         Setting up a continuous build environment to speed up software development and deployment process

•         Architecting overall, comprehensive, and efficient practices

•         Guiding developers and operation teams in case of an issue

•         Monitoring, reviewing, and managing technical operations

•         Manage teams with a leadership mindset

About the company:

Our client is a global Tier 1 company involved in many leading mission critical projects. They are highly regarded within the industry and are one of the largest independent technology & business services firms in the world.

They consider employees as highly valued members of the business and offer extensive progression opportunities for those wishing to move further in their career on a local, national or global scale.

Very senior DevOps specialist is urgently needed.

Reviewing and contributing to high-level architectural, security and service design artefacts.
Developing solutions from approved designs with focus on best practice and security.
Maintaining/managing tooling in cloud platform.
Documenting solutions built with LLD artefacts, alongside translating technical details and complexities with AWS cloud services, with view to obtaining accreditation.
Developing Cloud Solution reference architectures standards/best practice.
Developing/implementing DevOps processes; identifying efficiency savings.
Ensuring common understanding between different technical stakeholders.
Leading timely resolution of technical issues within delivery cycle.
Supporting development and mentoring of Junior technical resources within team.
Provision of some level 3 support of capabilities developed by programme.

Essential skills and experience

• Be able to demonstrate a deep understanding of how AWS services hang together and the underlying technology.
• Have a strong awareness of networking capability including: Direct Connect configuration, Routing, Firewalls, Security Groups and the respective configuration tasks in a secure cloud environment.
• Demonstrable ability to solve business problems by applying technology.
• Demonstrable experience of Cloud Infrastructure Architecture.
• Demonstrable experience of building Infrastructure as a Code.
• Demonstrable experience working within Government and Policing.
• Demonstrable strong understanding of and exposure to AWS Cloud Environments.
• Demonstrable experience of developing designs for secure environments.
• Demonstrable experience of working within DevOps Environments.
• Demonstrable experience of engaging with senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrable experience of influencing peers and stakeholders without having to depend on reporting lines.
• Demonstrable experience of creating LLD documentation.
• Demonstrable experience in all following enterprise-tooling-solutions & monitoring-solutions: Terraform, Pecker, Ansible, Linux, GitLab, CloudFormation, Confluence, JIRA, Jenkins, Sparx-EA & Pro-Cloud, Consul, Vault, Artifactory, JfrogX-RAY, SonarQube and Selenium-Splunk

• Show demonstrable experience of AWS Certification.
• Show a demonstrable Linux / Unix background.
• Show demonstrable knowledge of the Police and Public Protection Portfolio and the varying initiatives in progress would be a distinct advantage.

Very senior DevOps specialist is urgently needed.

Reviewing and contributing to high-level architectural, security and service design artefacts.
Developing solutions from approved designs with focus on best practice and security.
Maintaining/managing tooling in cloud platform.
Documenting solutions built with LLD artefacts, alongside translating technical details and complexities with AWS cloud services, with view to obtaining accreditation.
Developing Cloud Solution reference architectures standards/best practice.
Developing/implementing DevOps processes; identifying efficiency savings.
Ensuring common understanding between different technical stakeholders.
Leading timely resolution of technical issues within delivery cycle.
Supporting development and mentoring of Junior technical resources within team.
Provision of some level 3 support of capabilities developed by programme.

Essential skills and experience

• Be able to demonstrate a deep understanding of how AWS services hang together and the underlying technology.
• Have a strong awareness of networking capability including: Direct Connect configuration, Routing, Firewalls, Security Groups and the respective configuration tasks in a secure cloud environment.
• Demonstrable ability to solve business problems by applying technology.
• Demonstrable experience of Cloud Infrastructure Architecture.
• Demonstrable experience of building Infrastructure as a Code.
• Demonstrable experience working within Government and Policing.
• Demonstrable strong understanding of and exposure to AWS Cloud Environments.
• Demonstrable experience of developing designs for secure environments.
• Demonstrable experience of working within DevOps Environments.
• Demonstrable experience of engaging with senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrable experience of influencing peers and stakeholders without having to depend on reporting lines.
• Demonstrable experience of creating LLD documentation.
• Demonstrable experience in all following enterprise-tooling-solutions & monitoring-solutions: Terraform, Pecker, Ansible, Linux, GitLab, CloudFormation, Confluence, JIRA, Jenkins, Sparx-EA & Pro-Cloud, Consul, Vault, Artifactory, JfrogX-RAY, SonarQube and Selenium-Splunk

• Show demonstrable experience of AWS Certification.
• Show a demonstrable Linux / Unix background.
• Show demonstrable knowledge of the Police and Public Protection Portfolio and the varying initiatives in progress would be a distinct advantage.