Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting new contract opportunity for a TVV (Test) Manager to join an international security client in The Hague, Netherlands. It is essential that you possess valid/current SC or Nato Secret clearance to be considered for this position as a TVV (Test) Manager. This contract is until the end of December 2019 and the all-inclusive rate for this role is €80 euros per hour.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Assessment of the test artefacts produced by the contractor
• Ensure test coverage of the contract requirements
• Coordination of the review of the test plans and test cases
• Preparation and attendance of the test events
• Support the test director on resource planning and reporting

Required Skills and Knowledge:

• MUST HAVE VALID/CURRENT SC OR NATO SECRET CLEARANCE.
• You have 5+ years of knowledge and experience in test management
• At least 5+ years of knowledge and experience in requirement management.
• You have at least 5+ years of experience in development of Test Plans, Test Cases and setting up, executing and documenting test results
• At least 5+ years of testing experience in managing user acceptance and data migration testing.
• 5+ years’ experience in analysing test results and writing test reports.
• Must have an ISTQB foundation qualification
• Must have an ITIL foundation qualification
• Must have a Prince2 foundation qualification
• Must have a Requirement management certification/qualification
• Knowledge of Agile approach
• Knowledge of testing maturity approach (TMMI or equivalent)
• Knowledge of JIRA for issue/requirement management
• Knowledge of TestRail for Test Management

If you are pro-active and NATO/ SC cleared wanting to enhance your career and join an international client in the security sector do not hesitate to apply with a copy of your most recent CV.

Excellent contract opportunity in Amsterdam for an experienced Test Engineer to start a long term project.  6 month + contract with a possibility for extension (36-40 hours a week).

Responsibilities :

• Application testing using their Fitnesse framework
• Create, execute and validate tests
• Develop new test drivers and validation tools in JAVA
• Collaborate with other engineers and provide insight
• Give input and help with the current test automation strategy

Skills/experience:

• FitNesse ( desirable)
• Experience with Java programming
• Agile mindset
• DevOps

Are you a looking for an excellent career opportunity? Our client, based in Southampton, specialising in delivering IT Technology solutions, is recruiting for a C# Developer to join their team. The selected C# Developer is required to have experience with TDD and unit testing to be considered for this role as a C# Developer. This is a permanent position and the salary is up to £45,000 depending on experience.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, structure, and automatization
• Participate in team meetings and discussions
• Maintain accurate documentation

Required Skills and Knowledge:

• It is essential that you have strong analytic skills, and a logical approach to problem solving.
• You have extensive C# capabilities with experience using the .NET Framework
• Working knowledge of design patterns and Object Orientated Design is essential.
• You must have good knowledge of relational database technologies such as Microsoft SQL Server
• Use of source control technologies, such as GIT
• You hold an interest in programming best practices
• Experience with TDD and unit testing

Desirable Skills and Knowledge:

• Experience developing RESTful WebAPIs.
• Experience with CI tools such as TeamCity
• Experience with HTML5 and Javascript Frameworks
• You have commercial experience working with high-transactional SQL environments
• You understand the Agile software development lifecycle
• You have working knowledge of Scrum
• Full development life cycle experience
• You have experience in large, complex system implementation projects
• Knowledge of performing test driven development is desirable

Please, get in touch for further details on this exciting career opportunity as a C# Developer!

Endeavour Recruitment is seeking a Software Engineer to join our client, a SaaS company providing solutions to the automotive industry, based in Milton Keynes. As a Software Engineer you will be fulling involved with the design, developing, testing, and delivery of solutions. Our client is offering a salary of up to £55k DOE.

The successful Software Engineer will have experience with the following –

• C#
• .NET
• MVC
• Angular
• Bootstrap
• SOAP
• Resful
• SQL Server
• Database modelling
• AWS
• XML
• Agile

Please apply ASAP to be considered for this Software Engineer role.

Endeavour Recruitment has a fantastic new contract opportunity for an experienced Application Project Manager to work for an internationally renowned client in The Hague, Netherlands.

The selected Application Project Manager is expected to have experience working in an Agile environment.

The Application Project Manager chosen for this role must have relevant experience working in the Oil and Gas industry to fulfil their duties as an Application Project Manager.

The duration of this role is initially for 3 months and the all-inclusive daily rate is €620 euros.

Role and Responsibilities:

• The client requires the selected Application Project Manager to manage Application projects.
• Application Projects often are a roll-out of new deployments of Software packages across the company.

Required Skills and Knowledge:

• Various Technologies will be used
• English speaking with Agile experience
• Experience in working with Global (e.g. India) teams
• Must be PMI certified
• Relevant experience in Multinational companies
• Experience in the Oil & Gas Industry

If you believe you are the right candidate for this role as an Application Project Manager, then please do not hesitate to apply with a copy of your most recent CV.

Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting new contract opportunity for an experienced Infrastructure Project Manager to work for an internationally renowned client in The Hague, Netherlands.

The selected Infrastructure Project Manager is expected to have experience working with cloud technologies such as AWS or Azure.

The Infrastructure Project Manager chosen for this role must have relevant experience working in the Oil and Gas industry to fulfil their duties as an Infrastructure Project Manager.

The duration of this role is initially for 3 months and the all-inclusive daily rate is €620 euros.

Role and Responsibilities:

• The client requires the selected Project Manager to manage Infrastructure projects.
• Infrastructure Projects often are migrations from Cloud and Infrastructure rationalisation projects.

Required Skills and Knowledge:

• Experience with Cloud technologies such as Azure or AWS
• Extensive migration skills are essential
• English speaking with Agile experience
• Must have experience working with Global (e.g. India) teams
• PMI certified
• Relevant experience in Multinational companies
• Experience in the Oil & Gas sector

If you believe you are the right candidate for this role as an Infrastructure Project Manager, then please do not hesitate to apply with a copy of your most recent CV.

Java Software Engineer wanted!  Our client based in Weymouth is seeking a talented Java Software Engineer. A background in UX / UI is essential.  A skilled and talented person with a keen interest in software technology and the User journey through UX / UI is the ideal candidate.  Extremely competitive salary on offer.

Responsibilities:

The Java Software Engineer should have UML experience using Enterprise Architect.  Our client operates in areas where they support systems and equipment, both in the UK and International.  This job will be in the area of underwater warfare. 

Essential Requirements:

• Java
• UML
• UX / UI
• Requirement Analysis
• Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall and V

Desirable Requirements:

• NetBeans, Eclipse, Java Swing, Java FX
• VMware, RedHat, Linux, Ansible
• Software Test Planning
• Configuration and Build
• SVN, Jenkins, Hudson
• Sonar or Signal Processing
• C++
• RTI DDS

Candidate Profile:

• Degree in Computer Science or related subject
• Previous experience working as a Java Software Engineer
• Must be eligible for Security clearance

If you have the talent and skill to be a Java Software Engineer plus experience with UX / UI then please apply now with an up to date version of your CV.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent new opportunity for a Lead Software Architect to work for a large client in Brussels, Belgium. The duration for this role is initially 6 months and the all-inclusive daily rate for this role is €722 euros.

Required skills and knowledge:

• Must have a university degree or equivalent in experience.
• 3 - 5 years direct experience in system design or software architecture, spanning backend systems, mobile apps and/or IoT. Working knowledge of programming styles and languages is required.
• Functional analysis skills, including gathering of functional and non-functional requirements and functional specifications, analysing their impact and producing supporting documentation.
• Well-versed with documenting complex systems; proficient in modelling languages such as UML or SysML.
• End-to-end software architecture design spanning all layers (including complex, large-scale and distributed systems), using proven styles and patterns where applicable.
• Hands-on experience with SOAP, REST, layered, event-driven and (micro)service architectures.
• Experience with code analysis, complexity and dependency analysis.
• A solid understanding of software security essentials.
• Knowledge of testing methodologies, techniques and tools.
• An analytical approach and attitude, with an eye for detail, yet able to maintain the oversight of the overall architecture.
• Experience with agile methods and DevOps.
• Ability to articulate the relationship between business strategy and technology strategy.
• Continuously staying up to date on new technologies, trends and architectural patterns, and evaluating their implications.
• Strong project management skills and high performance ensuring agile delivery of complex solutions complying with high quality standards.

Desirable Skills and Knowledge:

• Experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
• Experience with regulated environments (GxP, HIPAA).
• French and/or Dutch speaking is an asset.

If you believe you are the right candidate for this role then please do not hesitate to apply with a copy of your most recent CV.

Are you a looking for an excellent career opportunity? Our client, based in Southampton, specialising in delivering IT Technology solutions, is recruiting for a Zabbix Development Engineer to join their team. This is a permanent position and the salary is up to £45,000, depending on experience.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Implement and evolve a resilient monitoring capability based on Zabbix.
• Identify and guide the development teams on the most effective ways to instrument and monitor products.
• Identify, develop and deploy innovative and effective monitoring solutions to meet monitoring requirements.
• Identify and evaluate additional capabilities and solutions that will augment and enhance current capabilities.
• Ensure that monitoring systems are relevant by ensuring alerts and actions are maintained to be appropriate and processes are in place for all events and alerts generated by the systems.
• Communicate and evangelise within the organisation to ensure that the monitoring solutions are used effectively and to gather new requirements and identify new opportunities for their use.

Required Skills and Knowledge:

• Excellent knowledge of the Zabbix platform including deployment, performance tuning and management
• Experience of developing Zabbix templates, including bespoke items, triggers, actions, discovery processes and automation.
• Strong scripting skills especially on the Windows platforms such as PowerShell and WMI.
• Excellent operational awareness and an understanding of how to deliver value through monitoring and automation.

Desirable Skills and Knowledge:

• Dashboard tools and development such as Grafana.
• Experience of automated deployment and management techniques such as Chocolatey.
• Log aggregation and visualisation tools such as Elastic Stack or the cloud hosted equivalents.
• Use of Cloud platforms (AWS & Azure)

Please get in touch for further details on this exciting career opportunity!

We are looking for a Solution Architect to join our Digital Transformation client’s team, based in Sheffield on a permanent basis.

The ideal profile will have experience of working with a Java-based eCommerce technologies such as IBM WebSphere Commerce, SAP Hybris, Salesforce DemandWare or Oracle-ATG.

The successful candidate will be required to lead the solution design, assist in solution implementation and be responsible for the technical delivery of complex solutions to a wide range of clients.

You will be required to work closely with clients and the internal delivery teams to ensure our solutions meet the business requirements and are delivered to our client’s principles, standards and best practices. The candidate should be business focused and have a proven track record of delivery.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Producing and owning technical solutions to fit business requirements and ensuring successful delivery.
• Producing and owning solution design documents covering baseline and target architectures for applications, integrations, data and technology – ensuring the design meets architecture principles and best practices for the technology platform and justifying the solution design against other options.
• Producing technical specifications for lead developers covering mid-low level application, interface and database design, including identifying relevant design patterns and application frameworks.
• Communicating technical architectures and designs to internal teams, including developers and testers.
• Communicating directly with the customer on all aspects of the technical design, including running design workshops, participating in architecture reviews, providing recommendations and reasons for key design decisions and explaining complex technical designs to non-technical stakeholders.
• Communicating directly with 3rd parties to agree designs, especially in the integration domain.
• Identifying impacts of a given solution/architecture and challenging business requirements or suggesting alternate solutions where necessary.
• Identifying and managing key stakeholders of the architecture change.
• Working collaboratively with other architects and lead developers to share knowledge and solutions.
• Estimating the design and implementation effort of large-scale and complex ecommerce solutions and assisting in the delivery, migration and go-live planning.
• Ownerships of the technical delivery, ensuring and demonstrating the quality of the deliverable, from code quality through to performance, scalability and security of the solution.
• Leading new application/technical architects in all aspects of the above.
• Keeping up todate with technology changes (e.g. trends, software updates, platform updated, 3rd party solutions) and reviewing these for recommendation into new projects or existing clients.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Proven experience in leading or assisting and delivering large-scale architecture change projects in ecommerce, retail or manufacturing.
• Proven technical leadership skills with an internal team within a client facing environment.
• An understanding of web technologies and an appreciation for capacity and performance design considerations
• Java and J2EE development (e.g. JSP, EJB, JPA, Struts, Spring, core JAVA)
• Develop performant and secure code (incl. SQL) for high-traffic production use, following pre-defined principles and guidelines
• Working knowledge of application server technologies (e.g. WebSphere Application Server) including clustered environments
• Have good front-end development skills in HTML, CSS and JS frameworks (e.g. JQuery) and are familiar with Ajax
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Preferable to have a good understanding of IBM WebSphere Commerce (WC) functional and technical architecture including design and development best practice and the associate technologies:
• WebSphere Commerce (WC) functional architecture (e.g. store, catalog, merchandising, marketing, orders)
• WC frameworks (e.g. Command framework, MVC,)
• WC search
• Common WC data models (User, Orders, Catalogs, Promotions etc.)
• WC messaging infrastructure (inbound and outbound, REST, MQ, BOD)
• WC persistence layer (SDO and EJB/access/data beans)
• WC development environment, SVN and GIT repos
• SOLR search
• IBM DB2 Database
• Demonstrate and develop to WC best practices, especially with regards to security and customisations
• Have a working knowledge of Dynacache
• An understanding of WC deployment models (e.g. 3-tier, de-coupled storefront/search

 DESIRABLE SKILLS

• Previous experience of working in an Agile environment
• Experience developing headless WebSphere Commerce solutions
• An interest in the ongoing developments of WebSphere Commerce (e.g. xC programming model, JPA)
• Web-tier configuration experience (e.g. Apache, IIS)
• Having worked on solutions utilising edge-caches and CDNs

If this role sounds of interest to you, please get in touch ASAP or apply with your CV