NEW ROLE APRIL 2019

Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting new opportunity for a DevOps Engineer for a contract in Vienna.  Deep knowledge of DevOps and related tools essential.  Good knowledge of Java and SQL and working in an Agile environment.  This is initially a 12 month contract with a further 12 month renewal anticipated, offering a rate of €60EUR per hour.

The beautiful city of Vienna has recently been ranked as the most liveable city in the world.  This role will provide the opportunity for somebody to live and work in Vienna. Fluent English is essential and German is advantageous. 

 The Role:

• Providing an efficient delivery pipeline, covering build, deployment and test automation as well as provisioning of infrastructure components on premise and in cloud infrastructures
• Devise concepts, evaluate tools & technologies to set up a delivery pipeline infrastructure
• Support developers, testers and operations to automate every aspect of the delivery pipeline
• Ensure efficient management in development, test and production environments
• Devise and enforce policies for developers, testers and operations that guarantee a stable delivery pipeline
• Establish solutions for logging and effective monitoring
• Work as part of an agile delivery team (Scrum)

The Skills:

• Degree in Computer Science/related subject or significant work experience
• Deep Knowledge of DevOps methods and related tools
• Unix / Linux
• Cloud / Virtualization / Containers
• Shell Scripting
• Java
• SQL
• Agile – Scrum and Kanban
• Confluence and Jira
• Fluent English – Excellent Communication Skills
• German is advantageous

If you are an experienced DevOps Engineer with a passion for technology looking for a new and exciting opportunity, then please do not hesitate to apply!

An Award-Winning Digital Design and Marketing Agency is looking for a HTML5 Web Developer to join their busy development team.  This is the perfect job for somebody who is seeking career progression.  Ideally you would have some commercial experience.  Skills are HTML5, JavaScript, Bootstrap and jQuery   Salary £25K to £35K.

The Benefits: 

If you can see yourself working in a trendsetting area of Central London with fashionable clubs, bars and an eclectic dining scene then please read on:  

• Full Training & Certifications
• 25 Days’ Holiday
• Pension Scheme
• Private Healthcare
• Remote Working
• Flexible Working Hours

Career Progression:

• Access to the e-learning platform
• Become Umbraco and Sitecore Certified
• Become a Full Stack Developer

About the Role:

The successful candidate will be responsible for assisting the web team in providing web solutions that meet our clients’ needs and help shape the clients’ digital offering.  Your creativity and technical excellence will manifest itself in a wide range of products and services which will help the client to distinguish itself from their competitors and offer the clients a truly engaging and superior interactive experience.

You will be expected:

• To produce well documented code
• To produce comprehensive and accurate estimates for work
• To take ownership of a task/project
• To produce high quality and standards compliant front-end code (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap and jQuery)
• To Test work thoroughly against specifications and test plans to avoid errors and re-work
• To work with creative, production and account teams to help deliver large campaigns
• To be creative, inspirational and proactive
• To have a keen eye for front end design and animation

Technical Capabilities:

• HTML5 canvas
• CSS3
• JavaScript
• ES6
• Bootstrap
• jQuery

Desirable:

• C#/ASP.NET/MVC Razor
• Umbraco, Sitecore
• React
• GIT
• Webpack
• Jira, Unit testing skills

If you wish to be considered or you want to know more about the role then please contact us as soon as possible. These opportunities do not present themselves often.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent new contract opportunity for a Project Manager  specialising in Test Assurance to join a global security client in The Hague, Netherlands. This contract is until the end of June 2019 and the rate for this role is €100 euros per hour.

Duties and Required Skills:

Must be currently SC or NATO cleared.

Help on the schedule and resource planning:

• Assessment of the ITM Project Master Schedule
• Analysis of the Agency resources needed to support
• Preparation phase (test case analysis, test plan review): both IV&V staff and SME
• Test execution: IV&V staff, SME, Service Line

Analysis of the dependencies:

• Dates of delivery of the input needed for test: approved processes, design, ICD
• Interconnection with NCI, NCIRC, NEDS

Output of this task: resources needed per week/month

• Help for the reporting
• Maintain the dashboard
• Structure the requirements and the allocation per test event

Collect statistics from TestRail and JIRA regarding the test status:

• Test Plan assessment
• Ensure that the scope is in line with the Test strategy and the scheduled test events

Coordinate with SME to ensure pre-requisite for testing are met:

• Witness testing potentially (but depends on availability of internal resources).

If you are experienced 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.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent opportunity for experienced Automated Software Testers to join our clients’ growing team.  You would be joining a team where talent is recognised, and knowledge is shared.  Based in Fife our client is close to Dunfermline and the Forth Road Bridge making Edinburgh easily accessible.  Competitive Salary IRO £30K to £40K depending on experience.

Our client has an ambitious Software Engineering team of approximately 50 developers/testers.  To join as an Automated Tester, you should be familiar with TDD and BDD and know how to design for testability.  Candidates should also have a significant track record of working in a similar testing environment.

Required Competencies:

• Testing of REST APIs or other web API, such as SOAP
• BDD/Gherkin, Python, Postman, Selenium
• Ability to influence people to embrace good test practices and disciplines
• Lean Techniques and Agile
• Degree in Computer Science or related subject
• Testing tools such as Pywinauto and Behave
• Experience of Pycharm, Jira
• Testing of .NET, IIS and Windows REST API performance

Applicants are invited to apply as soon as possible to be included on the shortlist.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent new opportunity for a QA Test Engineer to join a leading software development organisation based in Cork in Ireland.  The duration of this contract is 6 months and the all-inclusive daily rate for this role is €325.

Required Skills:

• Must have 4+ cumulative years of Software Test experience.
• Proven track record using Industry Standard Test Automation Tools, Visual Studio Team System (Test Edition), Selenium (WebDriver) or similar tools.
• Experience of structured testing methods and techniques.
• Working knowledge.Net advantageous.
• Strong testing background expected with experience writing test plans and test procedures.
• Experience in the use of Defect Tracking tools like Microsoft TFS, HP ALM or Jira.
• Experience testing business / enterprise applications.
• Working knowledge of SQL.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute test plans and test cases to solve technical challenges and shorten the test cycle through automation. 
• Add to our company’s testing efforts and improve the test frameworks, tools and technologies
• Contribute and evolve high quality test solutions for functional, regression and performance testing
• Develop an understanding of client business terminology practice and procedures within a reasonable timeframe.

• Provide input as per best practice (estimating, designing, developing and executing test procedures and test cases).
• Manage priorities and set expectations when faced with multiple demanding tasks.
  • Adhere to and promote internal information security policies and procedures
• Work closely with the Development team on a daily basis.
• Liaise with Business Analysts/Business Users if requirements are unclear.
• Execute Test plans and Regression Test plans within agreed timescales and standards.
• Test complex areas of application(s) and use business knowledge to determine if functionality is correct.
• Investigate and document defects in a defect-tracking system and verify resolution to ensure prompt closure of all defects.
• Clearly articulate and communicate testing status, and red/yellow flags, which might interfere with the achievement of QA milestones.

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.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent long-term contract opportunity for a Second and Third Line Support SAP Consultant to join a multinational client in the public sector based in Munich, Germany. This is initially a 12 month contract and the all-inclusive daily rate for this role is €450 euros.

Required Skills and Knowledge:

• At least 2 years of experience with helpdesk activities
• Experience in a SAP environment SAP Vendor Master Data Management, SAP ERP i.e.: FI, CO, MM, SD, PS
• Knowledge in HR services i.e.: PA, PT, PY, PE, PD
• Experience with service desk software like Jira, Zendesk, iET, Remedy
• Knowledge of ITIL
• Strong knowledge of MS Office 2010
• Proven experience in working with people in a multinational, multicultural environment
• Excellent communication skills in English both orally and in writing.
• German language skills would be an advantage

Deliverable Service:

• Assistance with the provision and analyses of statistics for the Service Desk
• Assistance in the preparation of monthly SLA compliancy reports
• Make suggestions, by running reports and analysing trends
• Monitoring, processing and clarification of User requests for on-demand services
• Execution of special tasks entrusted by the line-manager

Please get in touch for further details on this excellent long term contract opportunity.

Endeavour has an exciting long-term contract opportunity for a Business Analyst Expert to join a client, based in Belgium, on an English-speaking site.

The successful candidate is required to have an EU/British passport, as there will be travelling to other European countries involved, approximately twice per month.

You will perform the role of Business Analyst in a project to implement additional EMEA companies acquired by acquisition on the existing processes and capabilities on the target SAP platform. Your main responsibilities will include:

• Perform a FIT/GAP analysis comparing current business processes and capabilities and the processes and capabilities of the target SAP system and organization.
• Interact with business partners to identify processes and user requirements.
• Write user stories and use cases and acceptance criteria in the AGILE methodology.
• Do conceptual solution design with clear indication which capabilities are available and which need enhancement. Align with the Product owner on solution vision.
• Explain to Business partners how requirements are implemented from a functional standpoint in SAP.
• Be part of the scrum team. Transfer and clarify the requirement and solution concept to the functional analysts. Define impact of and review changes to the SAP system and ensure every deliverable is aligned to a definition of readiness.
• Prepare and support User Training and User Acceptance testing.

Required skills/experience:

• Excellent knowledge of the SAP SD module (Order processing - Delivery processing - Billing) and knowledge of integration points with SAP MM and FI modules.
• Minimum 5 years SD hands-on SAP SD configuration Experience. Excellent knowledge of Order to Cash process in particular and Supply Chain processes in general.
• Excellent knowledge of English (verbal & writing) required.
• Business facing communication skills: ask the right questions about business processes in order to come to system requirements. Explain the functional design to a business audience.
• Experience in project work in a team, work against a project plan with milestones. Ability to align solution design concept between the product owner, functional, technical and integrating teams.
• Ability to work independently on tasks and report on ETC. High sense of compliance.

Desirable skills / experience:

• AGILE, rRDM methodologies
• Experience with working in an international environment, with key users located across the EMEA region.
• Experience with working in a virtual team & collaboration with off-shore ABAP team.
• Knowledge of the SAP cross system flow of goods solution & APO global ATP check
• Tool knowledge: JIRA, Confluence, HP ALM Quality Center, DocSpace.

Please get in touch ASAP for further details on this excellent opportunity!

Endeavour Recruitment has an superb opportunity for a degree educated Cloud Automation Developer with a minimum 7 years relevant experience and expertise to join our Devops team in  Brussels. This is a 6 month contract with possible extension.

Requirements of the project

As a Cloud Automation Developer, you will take up a role in the Devops team. You will take  ownership in the implementation and maintenance of the data center tooling landscape.

You will focus on automating service delivery and providing means for easy and low cost operations. You support different teams that design.

This includes the specific following tasks and responsibilities:

• Development and support on our CMDB & Automation engine
• Analysis & development for data center automation projects
• Development & operational support on our external world interface

Candidate Requirements:-

• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience and expertise in:
• Java, Spring, Hibernate, JSF, PrimeFaces, …
• SQL (MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres, Oracle, NoSQL, ...)
• Adobe Flex, ActionScript
• Perl, Phyton, Ruby, PHP…
• WebServices: SOAP, REST, JSON, …
• Linux (RedHat)
• Tomcat, Apache, JBOSS suite, ..
• Agile development & Scrum principles
• SVN, GitLab source control
• JIRA
• CI/CD methodology and tooling experience (Jenkins, …)
• Knowledge of typical data center related technologies (TCP/IP, networking, security, virtualization, storage, systems, monitoring, ...)

• You take initiative and systematically drive for results
• You are a team player
• You are able to meet and exceed customers’ expectations (internal or external)
• You are able to inform your customers/colleagues timely and efficiently
• You manage your time and project planning efficiently
• You are able to learn quickly

Endeavour is looking for a skilled Project Officer to join a leading pharmaceutical organisation based in London.

The ideal candidate will be working with Project Managers, supporting project planning, monitoring and management reporting for a large software development project.

Required skills and experience

•Prince2 foundation or above is desirable

•Experience in controlling and managing a project repository of documents and other deliverable.

•Experience in facilitating project management and requirements change management processes.

•Detailed project scheduling, support, monitoring and reporting, non-financial project administration, management of document repository, management of requirements changes.

•Experience with  Microsoft Project tools for planning and tracking of project work;

•Knowledge of Atlassian, JIRA and Confluence as a delivery platform;

•Familiar with the role of configuration and document management in the context of a software Development project;

•Preparation and maintenance of detailed project schedules in MS Project, including resource planning, under the guidance of project management.

Please apply ASAP and get in touch for further details, on this excellent opportunity!

Endeavour Recruitment is looking for two Permanent Test Analysts for their client based in Brighton.  This is primarily a Manual Testing role, but experience of Automated Testing would be advantageous.  Training for this would also be provided.  Between 2-5 years’ experience required.  The salary on offer is between £25K to £30K.

The ideal candidates will have worked in a Testing role before and therefore be familiar with Agile, TDD, and implementing test plans.   The client requires candidates who are excellent communicators, are extremely business focussed and are keen to build on their testing abilities to help deliver automated regression testing.

Essential Candidate Experience:

• 2-5 years’ Testing experience
• Jira &/or Bugzilla
• Linux / Windows
• Web Based Applications
• NoSQL, MySQL & SQL Server
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong problem-solving ability
• Apache, Tomcat, jBoss

If you are interested in this role and you have the right experience, then please apply for the role with your most up to date CV that includes the experience you have relevant to the role.