Duration – 3 to 6 months extendable

1. Very good exposure on General Insurance. Should have worked on London markets systems. ( Testing  Experience on Sequel’s Eclipse (preferred but not mandatory) product would be really an added advantage)
2. Prior Insurance knowledge on Policy Administration, End to End work flow for Policy creation, document validation, will be an added advantage.
3. Strong SDLC and Test methodology background is a must.
4. Create and execute End to End test cases.
5. Understand Requirements and Integration services built on RestAPI.
6. Create and maintain test repository in VSTS. (TFS module)
7. Create and maintain defects in VSTS. (TFS module)
8. Prior knowledge on Microsoft technologies like CRM Dynamics, SharePoint will be an added advantage.
9. Good communication skills
10. Should be able to work pretty independently from customer location where perfect specifications don’t exist and the project is already in full swing and delivery are time bound
11. Who can hit the ground running and be productive as soon as possible

CHECK BEFORE YOU APPLY :

● Must be eligible to work in the UK and no sponsorship will be provided.

● Proven experience

● No CCJs

● Fully completed applications

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Data Analyst will ideally possess the following key skills:

·         Self-starter and problem solver

·         Analytics skills to be able to test data heavy PowerBI applications.

·             Ability to design and setup an automated test suite for smoke, sanity & regression testing

·             Develop a performance testing approach for the application / solution

·             Design a test strategy and write functional as well as technical test cases

·             Coordinate with Power BI developers to understand the report’s functionality

·             Should have adequate Agile / Scrum delivery experience and understanding

·         Strong communication skills for articulating the concerns issues and testing results to the broad variety of audience.

·         Knowledge around the financial data and their interactions.

·         Automation skills using (python) any tools such as Selenium or Protractor or any other tools

·         Solid understanding of CI / CD and Agile.

·         Proven experience of test automation using python.

·         Proven experience of exploratory and end to end testing.

·         Strong and proven experience of end to end testing / application testing.

The key technical skills are:

·         Advanced Excel

·         SQL queries

·         Experience in PowerBI (or other visualisation tool)

·         Financial processes in Upstream

·         Strong Python scripting experience.

·         Automation tools such as selenium or others.

Accountability:

·         Must take ownership of quality right from stories to completion and how it is consumed by end users.

·         Provide the data fitness checks for the selected data source and its integration with the existing data models and algorithms.

·         Identify important elements of the application which can be useful in the improving the accuracy of the models.

·         Present and articulate the issues defects to the project team making it easier to understand and fix.

·         Supporting data engineers, data scientists, BA in writing acceptance criteria, unit test scenarios and CI/CD process.

·         Must take ownership of code deployment.

As per the role accountabilities above, the key deliverables will be:

• End to end testing.
• Test automation implementation.
• CI / CD deployment.
• Most importantly we need a self-starter who can quickly gain the insight of the project and requirements and assess the business value by understanding the bigger picture and what the end user wants.

• Essential

  ·         SQL queries

  ·         Testing Pyramid

  ·         Test automation / Python scripting

  ·         End to end testing

  ·         Exploratory testing

  ·         Agile

• ·         CI / CD

Desirable

·         Knowledge of financial processes in Upstream

CHECK BEFORE YOU APPLY :

● Must be eligible to work in the UK and no sponsorship will be provided.

● Proven experience

● No CCJs

● Fully completed applications

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• Strong hold on HTML5. CSS/CSS3, SCSS, JavaScript (Angular).

• Experience with JavaScript-based SPAs or Angular.

• Experience with Python (Django, Redis)

• Experience with microservice architecture.

• Hands-on with deployment on a cloud platform such as azure/aws/IBM.

• Experience with SQL

• Good verbal and written communication skills in English.

• Able to operate individually and as part of a team; effectively set expectations, manage work and deliver results

CHECK BEFORE YOU APPLY :        
● Must be eligible to work in the UK and no sponsorship will be provided.        
● Proven experience        
● No CCJs        
● Fully completed applications        
        
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• Deep knowledge of.Net and its supporting ecosystem

• Windows Forms experience

• SQL Server (or equivalent SQL database) knowledge

• Exposure to Xamarin for mobile development useful

• Understanding of design patterns for reusable code maintenance and architecture

• Knowledge of the DevExpress component suite

• Previous experience and understanding of ERP systems (Sales, Purchasing, Inventory, project costing, accounting) would be considered an advantage

CHECK BEFORE YOU APPLY :        
● Must be eligible to work in the UK and no sponsorship will be provided.        
● Proven experience        
● No CCJs        
● Fully completed applications        
        
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Technical Lead - Northampton - Up to £55,000 per annum - Windows, Infrastructure, DLP, ITIL, Agile, Prince2, OEM, CAX, ERP, Unified Communications, Security, Networking

Are you looking for a technically challenging leadership role? A world leader in global motorsport are currently looking for a Technical Architect to join their team on a permanent basis. This is looking for someone to start ASAP and is paying up to £55,000 per annum for the right applicant.

Job Overview:

The role of the Technical Architect is to provide technical leadership in the support and provision of solid IT services, by doing so, improving reliability, availability, security and performance across all aspects of the IT landscape. A strong and broad ranging technical background is essential as this is also a hands-on role with the requirement to support and deliver technical solutions throughout all stages of the ITIL service lifecycle.

In addition to being the senior technical escalation point, the role also requires the ability to support, develop and lead colleagues in both task management and a technical capacity. The job holder must also be able to work with 3rd parties, suppliers & customers, as solutions will often require external input and co-ordination.

Knowledge, skills and experience required:

Essential

- A minimum of 5 years' experience in a senior operational support role (3rd line or equivalent) within a medium to large sized enterprise, including support of the following:

- Support and optimization of in-house and bespoke applications

- Enterprise infrastructure, networking, storage and compute

- Security, encryption and Data Loss Prevention

- Database infrastructure and administration

- Client and server Operating Systems

- High-level technical computing languages

- Infrastructure and application capacity, performance and availability monitoring

- Clustering and High Availability

- Email, telephony and Unified Communications

- Enterprise video content delivery

- Datacentre infrastructure

- Backups and Disaster Recovery

- Strong experience working to ITIL practices

- Proven Continual Service Improvement experience

- A good understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle

- Project lead and delivery experience working to a recognised methodology (ie PRINCE2, Agile)

- Experience of scripting, orchestration and automation techniques

- Excellent call/customer management experience

Desirable

- Motorsport, OEM automotive or engineering background

- High performance Computing experience

- CAX system management experience + PLM

- ERP system management

- Testbed and simulation platforms

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As the successful candidate you will be overseeing all aspects of the company's technology and technology related resources and assets to establish a technological vision for the company that is aligned to the company's overall strategy and that brings accessible technology, innovation and excellence to the business for employees and customers.

You will:

• Develop and maintain clear roadmaps for infrastructure, communications, internal applications and customer/partner facing applications and websites.
• Formulate and agree IT budget and subsequently manage that budget and costs.
• Broaden the skills base in the IT function through recruitment and training to bring in competencies in application development, data management, procurement and project management.
• Day to day management of the IT team, prioritising and monitoring project work.
• Work closely with operational functions to develop and streamline Back Office processes.
• Manage telecommunications infrastructure including the related development plans, projects, policies and procedures.
• Have an awareness of the latest significant trends in technology and its delivery and proactively seek to gain commercial advantage through adoption of appropriate innovations.
• Improve attitudes and competencies in technology across the business particularly related to web based technologies
• Oversee the adoption of appropriate operational processes to ensure that the infrastructure and data is both secure and resilient.
• In collaboration with HR, oversee the adoption across the business of unified communications and appropriate security protocols.
• Attend weekly Operational Board meetings.

You will have:

Technical Skills and Knowledge

• Practical knowledge and experience of networking, storage, communications, hardware and cloud technologies.
• Practical experience of development languages, frameworks, stacks and development approaches including Agile.

Procurement & Vendor Management

• Ability to diligently negotiate commercially sound agreements (terms, conditions and pricing) with vendors of all sizes.
• Proven ability to manage vendor relationships.

Your will receive:

• A salary of up to £90,000
• A discretionary annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of your salary
• 28 days' paid holiday leave
• Company pension scheme
• Private healthcare

If you are interested in this position then please apply ASAP or contact

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I'm looking for an Automation Manager (Scrum Master/MixPanel/ZenDesk/Machine Learning) to join a nascent price comparison start-up venture. The successful Automation Manager (Scrum Master/MixPanel/ZenDesk/Machine Learning) will act as the scrum master for automation team, whilst prioritising what the engineering team works on eg bug fixes, specific automation tasks to build, contact centre productivity improvements, investigate next wave of technology to use (eg machine learning).

You'll be the newest member of a 25 strong team full of technical and commercial experts (designers, developers, engineers, product managers, data scientists, marketers and business operations) all contributing to the successfulness of this household bill managing application, which is making waves amongst London based start-ups.

If you are looking for a company that will enable you to be hands on in a fun environment, press the apply button.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as scrum master for automation team
• Prioritise what the engineering team works on eg bug fixes, specific automation tasks to build, contact centre productivity improvements, investigate next wave of technology to use (eg machine learning)
• Routinely analyse automation performance/quality data from MixPanel, ZenDesk and other data sources
• Work with others on the team to put dashboards in place
• Ad hoc deep dives/investigations into particular situations with the engineering team to accelerate/deepen understanding of particular situations to identify problems/opportunities/symptoms/root-causes etc
• Liaise with contact centre about how to improve their productivity through automation and process improvements
• Triage automation related issues identified by contact centre
• Identify and prioritizing contact centre features/bugs
• Ongoing monitoring and management of day-to-day automation operations

Skills/background:

• Strong project management and product management skills
• Ideally has a technical/computer science/engineering background
• Highly numerate/strong quantitative skills

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Senior SAP BPC Consultant - Leading consultancy with excellent projects and training!

Leading UK SAP Consultancy with a sound reputation in SAP BPC is currently recruiting for BPC Professionals at all levels (Consultant/Senior/Principal) to join their team. This recruitment drive has been brought about due to an excellent pipeline of SAP BPC projects.
The successful candidate will work on the full scope of SAP BPC projects within the UK and also have the chance to learn other SAP skills like SAP HANA, SAP BW/SAP BI and SAP Business Objects should you be keen to do so. 

The business prides itself on a hugely enjoyable working environment. It is extremely friendly and very collaborative. Although travel is required, like all consultancies roles, the balance they can offer is one of the best in the industry. 

Role:
You will work closely with blue chip clients in the UK to understand, document, design & deliver high profile SAP BPC projects. The job will also incorporate other consultancy style duties such as proposals, POC's, technical pre-sales as well as high level strategy, architecture and capability growth developments.

Requirements:
- British, EU Passport or ILR in order to gain security clearance (preferred). 
- Deep technical knowledge of all areas of SAP. 
- At least 2 full life cycle projects in SAP BPC (Netweaver).
- Sound functional knowledge across budgeting, forecasting and financial consolidation.
- Previous consultancy experience.
- High level communication & client facing skills.
- An accountancy qualification would be a huge advantage. 

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Network Project Manager - Financial Services - Birmingham

My client, a leading organisation in the Financial Services sector, has an opportunity within its Chief Technology Office (CTO) for an Email Engineer/Communications Analyst to join its expanding team.

The SMTP Engineer is responsible for the strategy and engineering of technology platforms that include; email, mobility services, unified communications and voice services used across the bank. Architecture and design of SMTP email Backbone which includes; SMTP Internet gateways, Email Gateway anti-spam and anti-virus products, Email distribution list manager, Cyrus based IMAP service and SMIME email encryption gateways.

Location: Birmingham

Salary: £55,000 - £65,000

Experience & Skills;

• Extensive experience of SMTP email gateways, related protocols and related infrastructure running on Linux/Unix platform
• Knowledge on open source infrastructure software (Sendmail, bind, open LDAP, Cyrus IMAP, GNU mailman, openSSL, PostgresSQL, Apache web server)
• Knowledge on commercial email products (Proofpoint and Totemo appliances)
• Knowledge on OpenSSL tool kit for Unix/Linux
• Unix/Linux Operating Systems (SuSE Linux, CentOS and Solaris preferred)
• Python programming language and MVC architecture
• Knowledge on Linux with Unix TCP/IP Networking
• Good understanding of information security for infrastructure applications

My client, a leading organisation in the Financial Services sector, has an opportunity within its Chief Technology Office (CTO) for an Email Engineer/Communications Analyst to join its expanding team.

The SMTP Engineer is responsible for the strategy and engineering of technology platforms that include; email, mobility services, unified communications and voice services used across the bank. Architecture and design of SMTP email Backbone which includes; SMTP Internet gateways, Email Gateway anti-spam and anti-virus products, Email distribution list manager, Cyrus based IMAP service and SMIME email encryption gateways.

Location: Birmingham
Salary: £55,000 - £65,000

Experience & Skills;

• Extensive experience of SMTP email gateways, related protocols and related infrastructure running on Linux/Unix platform
• Knowledge on open source infrastructure software (sendmail, bind, open LDAP, Cyrus IMAP, GNU mailman, openSSL, PostgresSQL, Apache web server)
• Knowledge on commercial email products (Proofpoint and Totemo appliances)
• Knowledge on OpenSSL tool kit for Unix/Linux
• Unix/Linux Operating Systems (SuSE Linux, CentOS and Solaris preferred)
• Python programming language and MVC architecture
• Knowledge on Linux with Unix TCP/IP networking
• Good understanding of information security for infrastructure applications

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C++/C# Developer, £35k to £65k, Cambridge. 

This is a superb opportunity for a Senior C++ Software Developer with extensive experience of developing C# and C++ to join this highly successful cutting edge technology company. 

In this role you will be design and develop cutting edge software in a Windows environment. 

The successful Software Developer will have the following skills and experience: 

. Strong skills in developing in C# and C++

. Windows Installer experience (WIX, MSI)

. Computer Science degree educated or equivalent 

Highly desirable skills include:

. Open source

. Browser development and security

. Windows Internals is a bonus

. Python and/or JavaScript

This really is an excellent opportunity for an exciting, technology company with a great working environment. In return you will be rewarded with up to £65k, generous pension, private health care, dental, and life assurance. To avoid missing out, please send your CV ASAP! 

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