Initialize IT

About the Company

IT Recruitment Company: Over 30 years experience placing high quality Contractors, Freelancers and Permanent Hires with our diverse range of Clients across the UK, the rest of europe and globally

Products:

Mobile Apps & Gaming: Android SDK, iphone SDK, Objective-C, Cocoa, J2ME, Blackberry SDK, Windows Mobile, Symbian, MeeGo
PC Development: VB.Net, ASP.Net, C#, Java, C++
Microsoft: SharePoint, BizTalk
ERP/CRM: SAP, MS Dynamics, Oracle, Agresso
Virtualisation: VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer, PlateSpin, Vizioncore, Virtuozzo
Web Development: Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl, PHP, Python, Django, Ruby on Rails, Drupal, Silverlight
BI & BPM
RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase
Project Management, Business Analysts, Testers & Trainers
PC/UNIX/Linux/Network Support

Listed Jobs

Company Name

Initialize IT

Job Title

Test/QA Lead

Job Description

Test/QA Lead - £80 - 90k - London/Hybrid - dynamic & fast-growing organisation
The QA Lead role will need a strong track record in designing, implementing, and executing comprehensive test strategies across various frameworks, with a deep understanding of manual and automation testing techniques and tools. They must demonstrate expertise in functional, integration, and end-to-end testing for both Front End and Back End systems. You will be designing and implementing the Automation framework.
Core Skills & competencies
Strong experience of manual and automation testing
Strong track record of developing and executing manual Functional, System Integration, Regression, User Acceptance, and End to End Testing
The ability to Implement and review project test process.
The ability to define the scope of test requirements.
Strong experience developing test strategy for application features.
Experience of manual and automation testing on Power Platform and Azure
Significant experience writing test scripts and scenarios
Experience of coordinating test execution and reporting.
Strong experience specifying acceptance criteria for new features to enable testing
The ability to communicate quality issues in actionable bug report to project stakeholders.
Proven track record with automated testing
Good knowledge of agile software development lifecycle.
Be able to contribute to user stories refinement and project tasks estimation.
Good defect management skills.
Strong experience/knowledge of:
Power Platform Testing Frameworks: Familiarity with Power Apps Test Studio, Power Platform Testing Automation Framework (PATAF), and custom testing frameworks.
Dataverse: Testing data integrity, validations, and custom APIs in Dataverse.
Power Automate/logic Apps Testing: Skills in testing multi-step flows, error handling, and performance validation.
Security Testing: Knowledge of Power Platform security roles, data loss prevention policies, and RBAC testing.
Performance and Load Testing: Experience using Azure Load Testing or custom scripts for Power Platform applications.
Azure DevOps/GitHub CI/CD: Managing CI/CD pipelines for Power Platform, including automated deployments and tests.
Testing managed/unmanaged solutions: within Power Platform, including solution layering and environment validation.
Experience of Front End UI testing
Responsibilities and Duties:
Manage software testing resources (Recruit, train, allocate and monitor)
Prepare, analyse, review and present reports and metrics to stakeholders
Develop good test cases for application features.
Contribute to specifying acceptance criteria for new features.
Contribute to project test planning and estimates.
Communicate quality issues in actionable bug report to project stakeholders.
Develop and execute Non-functional test scripts.
Provide release quality assurance.
Provide release artefacts
Provide test metrics reports to project stakeholders
Lead defect triage
Coordinate with other managers (Project Manager, Product Owner and Architect) to ensure the highest level of software quality
Coordinate with Customers and third parties
Coordinate test execution
Prepare and review test strategy
Prepare and review test plans
Execution of Manual Testing
Development of automated tests
Review user stories and other requirement documentation.
Contribute to project test planning and estimates.
Nice To have skills
ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level or above.
University degree, preferably in an analytical subject.
Knowledge and experience using Azure DevOps
Experience of Contract testing of web services/microservices
Familiarity with security testing/Conducting app security and GDPR/data privacy assessments: where relevant.
SQL skills
Experience with any of the following tools and technologies
C#, Python, Typescript, JavaScript
SpecFlow,
RestSharp, RestClient
API Manual Testing tools like Postman, Swagger UI, SoapUI, JMeter, etc.
Jest/Mocha/nunit/xunit/mstest
WebdriverIO/Playwright/Selenium/CypressIO

London, United Kingdom

On site

10-12-2024

Company Name

Initialize IT

Job Title

Azure Data Engineer - Security Cleared - remote

Job Description

Azure Data Engineer - Security Cleared - remote - 6 months - £523 p/d
Must have: ADF, Databricks, SQL Server, Spark with Data Modelling skills (eg, Kimble) Database - Mongo DB(beginner), SQL server, Azure SQL Pro
Big Data Skills - Azure Databricks, Python, Spark, SQL
Azure Datalake optimization/storage techniques
Azure DevOps CI/CD process - PowerShell, Azure CLI
Azure Datafactory pipeline development
Parquet JSON, Delta tables
Data Warehousing, Data Modelling techniques
Monitoring - Log Analytics, Kusto query, Terraform
Nice to have : Good understanding of PBI development
PBI deployment and pipelines

United Kingdom

On site

12-12-2024

Company Name

Initialize IT

Job Title

Oracle Essbase Planning Consultant

Job Description

Oracle Essbase Planning Consultant - Liverpool (2 days a week)/hybrid - 6 months - £545 per day
Technology: Oracle Essbase-Planning Consultant
Skillsets required:
Oracle Essbase: Strong hands on experience with ASO and BSO cubes (Development, optimization and maintenance)
Expertise in building complex calculation scripts, load rules, report scripts, MDX & MaxL queries.
Experience in outline development and metadata management.
Strong understanding of Essbase partitions and Dataloads.
Strong knowledge on Planning (Application development, optimization and maintenance)
Deep understanding of financial concepts: Budgeting, forecasting, planning and financial reporting.
Ability to design, implement and support financial models and reporting solutions.
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Liverpool And, United Kingdom

Remote

12-12-2024

Company Name

Initialize IT

Job Title

AWS Tech Lead \ Tech Manager

Job Description

AWS Tech Lead / Tech Manager - Bracknell 2-3 days a week - 3-6 months
We are seeking an experienced AWS Tech Lead to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Datawarehousing, AWS Cloud Data pipeline with experience in, technical delivery, managing teams and customer.
Key Responsibilities -
Understand business requirements and existing system designs, estimations
Ability to explain data lake architecture using AWS services
Data modelling & analysis, data migration strategy, cleanse and migrate large master data sets, data alignment across multiple applications, data governance.
Design, build and operationalize data solutions and applications using one or more of AWS data and analytics services
Assist in making technology choices and decisions and modelling in an enterprise architecture
Work independently and with the team to develop new data mastering processes to drive data quality - Operations
Data acquisition and ingestion: Engineer collection and ingestion of new data sources into mastering environment - Lead architecture and design decisions.
Work with various SMEs in understanding business process flows, functional requirements specifications of existing system, their current challenges and constraints and future expectation
Drive engineering best practices and mentoring junior engineers 100%
Oversees the development, implementation, guide team throughout and ensure timely and quality deliverables.
troubleshooting any potential issues
Manage Customer expectations, align on delivery timelines with customer.

Essential Skills:
Data Warehousing, AWS Data pipeline, Data Modelling, SQL, Python, Unix/Linux

Bracknell, United Kingdom

On site

13-12-2024