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BitWise Limited

Salary

Competitive

Location

Dunfermline

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

BitWise, a leading software services company with offices in the UK and mainland Europe, is looking for talented software engineers to be based at our headquarters in Dunfermline, Scotland. BitWise works with a diverse range of technologies in the medical, payments systems, telecoms, automotive and other sectors, and has established a reputation for delivering software of the highest quality, meeting demanding industry standards.

We require capable software engineers with good breadth and depth of experience in software engineering and with a solid understanding of software development best practices. At BitWise you can expect to be involved at any or all stages of the development lifecycle: Interest and enthusiasm for learning new skills within a fast moving commercial environment are essential.

Skills/Experience:
• Thorough understanding of at least one of C, C++, C#.
• Adaptable – able to quickly pick up new technologies and tools.
• Good understanding of and experience in implementing software to meet current industry standards; knowledge of particular safety/quality standards would be desirable.
• Previous technical leadership experience would be advantageous but is not essential.
• Degree educated in an appropriate technical discipline, ideally Computer Science or similar.

Strictly no agencies

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Jaguar Land Rover Ltd

Salary

From £35,000 to £45,000 per year

Location

West Midlands

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Supplier Development Quality Assurance Engineer
£35,000 - £45,000
Midlands

International markets. £billions spent with suppliers worldwide. Complex deals and global negotiations. Everything about Purchasing at Jaguar Land Rover is massive. Every moment is as challenging as it is rewarding. So there really is nowhere better to apply your world-class influencing and negotiating skills. Join our Purchasing team and your work here will help guarantee our customers continue to enjoy the highest quality products on the market.

You’ll be a key player within the Supplier Technical Assistance team, which makes sure our suppliers plan and control their manufacturing processes effectively, so we benefit from the highest quality. As the link between suppliers and our expert teams, such as Product Development and Manufacturing, you’ll own and resolve any issues – from parts to warranty. Travelling extensively throughout the UK and overseas, you’ll lead supplier development, assess supplier manufacturing sites, and make vital contributions to our supplier sourcing and assessment process. Career defining moments will be yours for the taking.

It’s a role in which you’ll always strive for excellence. We’ll expect you to improve supplier quality systems and drive continuous improvements in their manufacturing processes, solving any problems using a structured approach. What’s more, you’ll enjoy the opportunity to support review of DFMEA and personally lead the review of PFMEA and control plans, as well as providing on-site support for the launch of new supplier activities or manufacturing plant. Quite simply, you’ll be instrumental in driving market-leading quality.

Our customers expect the best and so do we, so you’ll need to bring impressive credentials to the role. Ideally qualified to degree level, you have proven experience within a vehicle engineering / quality / manufacturing function. Along with insight into the relationship between Product Development and Manufacturing, you have demonstrable knowledge of component manufacturing processes and associated quality control methods. Experience of APQP / PPAP / 8D is also crucial. Naturally, you’ll be a driven and effective leader and negotiator, with the ability to operate successfully at every level of our organisation.

This is just the beginning of an extraordinary career. In return for your dedication, you’ll enjoy all the development opportunities you’d expect from a growing organisation with a rich heritage and a worldwide reputation for innovation and excellence. This is your chance to hone your skills at the leading edge and experience moments of achievement you’ll never forget. Wherever you want to go, Jaguar Land Rover is your ultimate destination.

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salesforce.com

Salary

Competitive + pension, life assurance, leisure activities reimbursement

Location

London

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

BuyBuddy is looking for a strong individual to join our growing Quality Audit team who can thrive in this fast paced environment. We are seeking candidates who are self-starters, and have a proven track record of being a key QA team member. Are you naturally a quality expert, but still love to keep your hands in get involved in understanding complex problems on a daily basis? Do you embrace technology to test business problems in a high-volume, high scalability environment? If so, you may be well suited for this role.

We are the market leader in social advertising, writing innovative software used by media companies around the globe. You'll work closely with Facebook and other social networks, helping them monetize their userbases across web, mobile, and offline. Social advertising is the fastest growing market on the internet and you'll be at the very forefront of the industry. Our ads are seen by billions of people every day.

The successful candidate will be involved in all phases of SDLC - ensuring quality and user friendliness of our web application with the next generation of advertising technology. The candidate will work in a fast paced agile environment within a small QA team, report progress to the QA lead, draw attention to defects, be involved in detailed documentation of test scripts and work closely with development and client services team.

Above all else, candidates must have the proven ability to be solve problems, hit deadlines and be thorough in testing with a variety of testing techniques both manual and automated. If you are a passionate tester who can get a lot done while having a lot of fun, come join a team of like-minded, talented professionals where you can learn and share your knowledge!

The Quality Engineer will also create, document, implement and maintain test scripts for complex on-demand functionality in Marketing Cloud applications area both manual and automated tests. You should be self directed, team oriented, know and care what the customer wants from our service. This position requires healthy doses of initiative and flexibility in a very dynamic environment. You should like to break things, be exhilarated when you discover a really complicated bug, and be detail-oriented enough.


Purpose: You will develop and execute test plans to ensure the quality of our applications, configure and support test environments and works to extend test automation. This is an excellent opportunity to join a highly technical firm and one which is going through rapid expansion.

Job description:

Writing automated test cases using selenium webdriver using C# and Nunit.

Developing and executing test plans with a variety of test techniques.

Develop/execute SQL queries to test Data intensive functionality.

Configuration, basic troubleshooting and support of test environment.

Automated and Manual test execution, bug tracking and reviews.

Liaise with client services team to understand live system issues.

Work closely with QA lead on discussing test strategies and improving QA practice.


Responsibilities:

You should be proficient using webdriver, Nunit, creating automated test scripts in C# using page object modeling

Ideally experienced in creating test automation frameworks from scratch.

Able to analyze both client and server side errors.

Experience in cross browser testing both manual and automated tools.

Good knowledge of writing sql queries.

Experience working with bug tracking tools like Jira & Greenhopper & Bugzilla, etc.

Use of source control tools like SVN, GiT, etc.

Manual testing experience with variety of testing techniques.

Experienced in performing manual and automated regression tests whenever required.

Retest issues coming from client services and able to spot the underlying problem, reporting them through the bug tracking tool, update test cases.

Expert level in web functional testing and GUI testing.


Required skills and experience:

Computer science or engineering related degree with good knowledge of OO languages like C#.

Experience working in a very agile environment where you have to meet very tight deadlines and short release cycles (2-4 weeks).

Be a very good team player with good communication skills.

Analytical problem solver with strong attention to detail.

Raising of issues, defects, observations as necessary to highlight errors in the system under test.

Motivated, self- starter and shows initiative with ability and drive to perform in a very fast-paced environment, able to multitask and adapt to changing priorities.

Desired Skills and experience:

Experience with performance testing using Firebug desired but not essential.

Experience with online advertising or social media is a plus.

Knowledge of API testing with good understanding of how they work.

Basic knowledge of security testing, desired but not essential.

Working knowledge of queuing technologies like MSMQ and Rabbit MQ, desired but not essential.

Salesforce.com is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this Web site or directly to managers. Salesforce.com does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce.com will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with the Company.

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Boeing

Salary

Competitive

Location

Bristol

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Project Engineer

Boeing Defence UK is seeking to employ several Project Engineers to work as part of the Special Engineering & Integration Team within LogNEC Delivery Partner. LogNEC is a key IT programme for the delivery of logistic support within the Ministry of Defence and therefore provides an exciting, long term opportunity for the successful candidate.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide the Engineering coordination of a variety of complex IT change requests through managing a cross functional team representing multiple skill areas, which may include internal and external resources and customers.
• Leads, manages and supports proposal development for a portfolio of change requests to the baseline and leads the execution of the change, in line with PRINCE 2 project management best practice, by identifying activities, resources, documents and events required to complete the work.
• In addition, identifies appropriate performance metrics.
• Develop supplier statements of work (SSOW) to satisfy a variety of change requests, which include research and development, ongoing and new business requirements.
• Identifies, analyses and manages changes and assesses the impact of those changes on the current baseline and advises on the best course of action.
• Plans, identifies and coordinates resources required over the life of the change or programme.
• Identifies and defines plans for risk mitigation and opportunity.
• Identifies and resolves issues expeditiously.
• Compares actual results to baseline plan to assess change/project performance, efficiencies, productivity and lessons learned.
• Implements corrective actions to improve performance in the future.
• Provides technical, business and integration leadership for the development and execution of the change/project or team plan.
• The successful candidate will work collaboratively within an integrated Customer and Delivery Partner team environment, working closely with a wide range of functional staff, including engineering, product support, supplier management, commercial and finance.

You should be able to demonstrate the following competencies:

• ANALYTICAL SKILLS. Ability to investigate, analyse and benchmark industry practices.
• COMMUNICATION SKILLS. Highly developed communication skills and able to deliver coherent and persuasive written and verbal briefs.
• INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT STANDARDS. Knowledge of industry, military and government specifications, handbooks and standards.
• MANAGING WORK. Able to prioritise and recognise critical versus non critical tasks. Makes effective use of time and resources.

Basic Qualifications for Consideration:

Do you have current rights to live and work in the UK?

Typical Education/Experience:

Preferably educated to Degree or Diploma in an Engineering Discipline with a 2:1 or higher.
Previous experience in an IT related environment essential. PRINCE2 or APMP qualified is desirable. Requires expertise and experience with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project and Vision.

Other Job Related Information:

Important information regarding this requisition: This requisition is for an international, locally hired position. IT IS NOT FOR AN EXPAT ASSIGNMENT. Benefits and pay are determined in line with local country labor market practices. Please list all of the Countries in which you are a citizen and/or have work authorization for on the top of your resume. Immigration sponsorship may be provided to qualified candidates as required.

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GlaxoSmithKline

Salary

Competitive

Location

Irvine

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

GSK Irvine is a world leader in the manufacture of Antibiotics (Augmentin). We are currently expanding our capacity and reducing our carbon footprint. We are investing 80-100 million pounds in our facility and people over the next 5 years. This is a great time to join GSK as we build a brighter future in Irvine... do more, feel better, live longer.

Irvine is a highly automated pharmaceutical manufacturing facility. Our field instruments and primary control systems (DeltaV & PCS7) are state of the art, As part of our professional Automation engineering Team, we are looking for an Automation Engineer that has clear customer focus and delivers.

Application Deadline: 03/06/2013

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Autonomy

Salary

Competitive

Location

Belfast

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

As a Quality Assurance Engineer at Autonomy HP, you will be involved in many phases of the software lifecycle, working closely with the development team from concept to completion for new and existing software functionality. The role will include test planning, test creation, test automation and test implementation. The ideal candidate should be ambitious, positive, focused and highly technical.

Job Responsibilities:

• Working with the product development team, product managers and technical experts within the company to deliver high quality software solutions. You will take an active role in ensuring the quality of our released software.
• Contribute to the automation test activities including developing and maintaining automated tests and identifying features suitable for automation.
• Perform both automated tests and manual tests, including but not limited to regression tests, functional tests, validation tests, and performance tests.
• Participate in design reviews, feature and release content reviews and provide end user perspective on the software solutions developed.
• Communicate effectively with all aspects of the Engineering teams, including Development, Support and Product Management.
• Understand software product requirements, specifications, and defect reports.
• Install, configure and maintain appropriate client and server-side test environments.
• Identify defects and communicate them to Development in an accurate and timely manner.

Job Requirements:

• A 2:1 (or higher) Bachelor’s Degree in ICT, Computer Science, or a related discipline
• Experience working in a QA environment OR strong desire for QA role
• Knowledge of QA principles and lifecycles
• Ability to cope with complexity
• Perseverance to build working test environments and investigate defects effectively
• Good attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Exceptional analytic and problem solving skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
• Experience of test automation scripting or execution
• Experience of working in a team following agile principles
• Experience of working in a Windows environment with both desktop and enterprise systems.

About Autonomy
Autonomy, an HP Company, is a global leader in software that processes human information, or unstructured data, including social media, email, video, audio, text and web pages, etc. Autonomy’s powerful management and analytic tools for structured information together with its ability to extract meaning in real time from all forms of information, regardless of format, is a unique tool for companies seeking to get the most out of their data. Autonomy’s product portfolio helps power companies through enterprise search analytics, business process management and OEM operations. Autonomy also offers information governance solutions in areas such as eDiscovery, content management and compliance, as well as marketing solutions that help companies grow revenue, such as web content management, online marketing optimization and rich media management.

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Autonomy

Salary

Competitive

Location

Cambridge

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

With 50 Petabytes of data under management, and with over 6500 servers in 14 global Data Centers, Autonomy is a leader in the Cloud computing space. As a Systems Engineer, you will be a key member of a technical staff that is responsible for the systems and software that make up Autonomy’s production Cloud/Hosting service offerings. We provide 24/7 data protection in a constantly growing and evolving environment.

We’re looking for an individual with solid experience and a strong willingness to learn new technologies, willing to dive into challenges and take direction. This person must exhibit a positive and proactive approach and the ability to work efficiently as either an individual contributor or team lead.

The ideal candidate should have a solid process background, and understand technical components of the job. They should also possess the ability to develop relationships, the ability to demonstrate creative thinking, should be responsive to customer needs, be successful in adapting to change, display solid communication skills and attention to details, excellent time management skills and the ability to adapt to multiple competing priorities and still deliver.

A successful candidate should be able to:

• Troubleshoot hardware problems (multi-vendor) and work with remote data center staff
• Demonstrate experience with VMware / Cloud Technologies
• Demonstrate experience Active Directory, DNS, & DHCP
• Troubleshoot / Install Windows Server Operating systems
• Troubleshoot / Install Linux Server Operating systems
• Understand / Participate in regular OS Patching Cycles & Server Hardening /

Maintenance:

• Understand Network Cabling & basic configuration of switches
• Demonstrate experience with performance measurement
• Demonstrate experience with RAID based storage (NAS, DAS) & SAN technologies
• Microsoft SQL Server knowledge (SQL 2005/2008)
• Familiarity with IIS / Apache
• Familiarity with Security Best Practices
• Scripting ability a plus (vbscript, PowerShell) a plus
• Rack and un-rack Servers (ability to lift 25 KG)
• Understand/participate in shipping and receiving
• Participate in an on call rotation to resolve after hours problems

About Autonomy:

Autonomy, an HP Company, is a global leader in software that processes human information, or unstructured data, including social media, email, video, audio, text and web pages, etc. Autonomy’s powerful management and analytic tools for structured information together with its ability to extract meaning in real time from all forms of information, regardless of format, is a unique tool for companies seeking to get the most out of their data. Autonomy’s product portfolio helps power companies through enterprise search analytics, business process management and OEM operations. Autonomy also offers information governance solutions in areas such as eDiscovery, content management and compliance, as well as marketing solutions that help companies grow revenue, such as web content management, online marketing optimization and rich media management.