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QA Analyst - £650-850 P/D Inside IR35 – London – 6 months
An excellent opportunity has arisen for QA Analyst to be part of a team working with a leading international bank.
Details:
Hybrid working
£650-£850 per day DOE
Inside IR35
Requirements:
- Work with BAs to refine business specifications.
- Define and produce testing plan and participate in user acceptance testing.
- Carry out functional, performance and regression tests.
- Liaise with Dev teams to ensure accurate functional coverage and validate test scenarios.
- Ensure all appropriate tests are of high quality and accuracy.
- Manage and escalate risks and issues.
- Assist in defining automation testing procedures and automated tests packs.
- Good hands-on understanding of rates flow products especially on the electronic trading side, strong analytical skills and a high level of accuracy when defining business specifications and testing scenarios.
Experience:
- Have a strong expertise in quality assurance of front office projects.
- Have a strong expertise in e-Commerce IT projects.
- Interest in continuous improvement and all aspects of software development and delivery.
- Experience working in an agile team.
- Good understanding of TDD and continuous integration practices.
- Strong communication skills, both orally and in writing, inside and outside the team.
- Desire to learn quickly and ability to adapt to a fast-changing environment.
Desirable:
- .NET, HTML5 & Java.
- Working knowledge of standard QA tools like ALM.
- Financial product knowledge in any of Rates, Credit, FX Cash or FX Options products.
- Experience working with large real-time financial trading applications.
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
Fantastic Opportunity for a Lead Java Software Engineer VP Level for one of the world’s leading Investment Banks. Leading a small team of 3 Java developers in London combined with global teams in in Singapore and New York.
The team works in partnership with Front Office stakeholders to build and implement the strategic platform for the Algorithmic Indices business. This is a hands-on development role that will allow the successful candidate the autonomy to deliver strategic market data pricing solutions within this key area of the firm.
It is expected that he successful candidate will have technical oversight of the platforms long term strategic direction including technology choices as the firm move on a cloud based architecture.
Experience of working with a front office trading desks would be beneficial Fixed Income/Equities or E-Trading experience. Computer Science or related degree.
Technical skills required:
- Proven track record in Java, Spring, Spring Boot, REST
- The latest Agile methodologies
- Interest in the latest technology stackes and how it can be integrated into the firms’ current set up
- Java Multi-Threading
- Proven experience for system design and architecture
- Excellent organisational and communications skills both written and verbal.
- Commercially driven and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Cloud architecture both Private and Public not a prerequisite to have prior experience but be williness to pick this up in the role
Desirable technical skills:
- Understanding or working knowledge of Python, React, would be an advantage.
- Java software delivery background gained in a front-office environment
- Understanding of Algorithmic indices and/or cross-asset derivatives / structured products
- AWS, GCP, Azure +
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McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
Lead Software Developer required with a solid Java development background with an interest in utilising the best of the best possible software approaches and methodologies. Enjoy working with more than one language? For example, Python, C/C++, JavaScript, React Framewords, SQL, Rust, Scala, Go and more.
The firm’s goal is to make it easy and enjoyable for development teams to go from a business idea to delivery of an innovative production solution. This will be acheived by improving and upgrading our tools, streamlining our processes, automating and strengthening controls, and helping development teams adopt modern ways of working.
A new team of highly skilled developers and expert engineers that work to unlock and other development teams who are struggling. They are also cultural and behavioural leaders who represent the very pinnacle of our engineering culture and can help others successfully adopt the Agile mind-set and DevOps practices that our best teams follow.
Providing teams with CI/CD pipelines which helps them rapidly move a struggling team on to the latest development environments and unlock their productivity.
Key Responsibilities:
- Works with a wide variety of development teams and solves their issues, including coding directly on their project, refactoring, setting up environments and pipelines and coaching on behaviours and mind-setDrives lasting cultural change, including helping to establish an inner-source collaboration model, a DevSecOps mind-set, an Agile development approach, innovative risk management and a culture of continuous improvement
- Works closely with other teams across Developer Engineering, supporting their efforts and contributing their own insights gained from fieldwork
- A positive can do techie, whose optimism and enthusiasm for technology is infectious
- Excellent communicator who gets on well with others, building strong professional relationships
- Collaborative by nature, builds partnerships across the firm
- Creative and innovative, brings different angles to problems and provides new solutions
- Good, pragmatic judgement of when to challenge the rules and offer suggested improvements
- Obsessed with coding, working on they own projects in their spare time
- An advocate of inclusion and diversity in every way
Experience:
- Expert coder in several of our key languages, for example: Java, Python, C/C++, Javascript, SQL, Rust, Scala, Go
- Cloud Native Experience ideally GCP or AWS
- Microservices
- Proven track record of successfully coaching and guiding other developers
- Superbly knowledgeable Agile practitioner, with real-world experience and a highly disciplined approach
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and the underlying technologies used at Citi
- Detailed technical understanding of our operating environments, Linux and Kubernetes as a minimum
- History of developing on a wide variety of architectures, up to and including container based micro-services
- Ideally (but not absolutely required), experience of working in and/or running development teams in a banking environment
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
- Master’s degree preferred
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
Lead Software Developer required with a solid Java development background with an interest in utilising the best of the best possible software approaches and methodologies. Enjoy working with more than one language? For example, Python, C/C++, JavaScript, React Framewords, SQL, Rust, Scala, Go and more.
The firm’s goal is to make it easy and enjoyable for development teams to go from a business idea to delivery of an innovative production solution. This will be acheived by improving and upgrading our tools, streamlining our processes, automating and strengthening controls, and helping development teams adopt modern ways of working.
A new team of highly skilled developers and expert engineers that work to unlock and other development teams who are struggling. They are also cultural and behavioural leaders who represent the very pinnacle of our engineering culture and can help others successfully adopt the Agile mind-set and DevOps practices that our best teams follow.
Providing teams with CI/CD pipelines which helps them rapidly move a struggling team on to the latest development environments and unlock their productivity.
Key Responsibilities:
- Works with a wide variety of development teams and solves their issues, including coding directly on their project, refactoring, setting up environments and pipelines and coaching on behaviours and mind-setDrives lasting cultural change, including helping to establish an inner-source collaboration model, a DevSecOps mind-set, an Agile development approach, innovative risk management and a culture of continuous improvement
- Works closely with other teams across Developer Engineering, supporting their efforts and contributing their own insights gained from fieldwork
- A positive can do techie, whose optimism and enthusiasm for technology is infectious
- Excellent communicator who gets on well with others, building strong professional relationships
- Collaborative by nature, builds partnerships across the firm
- Creative and innovative, brings different angles to problems and provides new solutions
- Good, pragmatic judgement of when to challenge the rules and offer suggested improvements
- Obsessed with coding, working on they own projects in their spare time
- An advocate of inclusion and diversity in every way
Experience:
- Expert coder in several of our key languages, for example: Java, Python, C/C++, Javascript, SQL, Rust, Scala, Go
- Cloud Native Experience ideally GCP or AWS
- Microservices
- Proven track record of successfully coaching and guiding other developers
- Superbly knowledgeable Agile practitioner, with real-world experience and a highly disciplined approach
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and the underlying technologies used at Citi
- Detailed technical understanding of our operating environments, Linux and Kubernetes as a minimum
- History of developing on a wide variety of architectures, up to and including container based micro-services
- Ideally (but not absolutely required), experience of working in and/or running development teams in a banking environment
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
- Master’s degree preferred
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
QA Automation Lead – Guildford
An exciting opportunity to join a well-established engineering group as a Quality Assurance Automation Lead. The engineering group is made up of scrum teams that contain all the skills needed to implement new working increments of the software platform. You will as a QA Automation Lead be in a role that is crucial in supporting the agile software development lifecycle.
As part of the QA group, you will be a “champion of quality” and provide the QA voice amongst the team. Feedback loops are encouraged, and knowledge sharing is key in driving quality across the engineering group.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with the QA Group and QA leads to define the automation strategy, roadmap, KPI’s, standards and practices for the software platform and agile teams
- Mentor and collaborate with the Scrum teams on automation best practices and techniques that work harmoniously with an Agile mindset
- Take ownership over and lead the design and implementation of test automation frameworks against well-defined software development and coding standards
- Collaborate with the Scrum teams and QA leads to identify areas for improvement using risk-based analysis techniques
- Create and run automation training sessions to build the automation mindset amongst teams
- Provide automated solution recommendations during team refinement activities, retrospectives, and roadmap discussions
- Provide hands-on assistance with automated test efforts
Requirements/Qualifications:
- Demonstrate in-depth experience gained within a Software Quality Assurance role with an emphasis on test automation strategy, implementation and troubleshooting experience
- Excellent leadership skills with a proven ability to define and drive an automation strategy and roadmap
- Experience integrating automation frameworks within CI pipelines in a scalable manner
- Experience creating automated testing solutions for microservices
- Strong academic background, a degree in a STEM subject discipline would be beneficial
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Vocal communicator, who can respectably challenge the status-quo
- Experience using test automation frameworks and tools such as Selenium, Playwright, SpecFlow, NUnit, Jasmine, or other frameworks that will enable us to meet our functional and non-functional quality goals
- Experience using C#, SQL and XML
In return for this experience, you can expect to join a fast-growing business with a great working environment and compensation plan that includes 25 days holiday + bank holidays, life assurance, pension, private health care and an annual performance related bonus.
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
**Permanent roles**
**£80k to £130k per annum (+ benefits + bonus)**
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We are working with a Tier 1 investment bank in London.
They have an exciting opportunity for several Vice Presidents to join their Electronic Trading team.
As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will be involved in monitoring and supporting Algorithmic, Smart Routing and Order Management systems.
Role Responsibilities
- Own the production environment
- Serve as level one support on issues
- Demonstrate plant health through plant monitoring, alerting provisioning and capacity management
- Deploy applications to production
- Automate repetitive maintenance and troubleshooting tasks
- Communicate and document production changes, improve the change management process and tooling
Essential
Electronic Trading experience
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps background
Desirable
- Working in equities cash markets and trading systems
- Writing C++, Python, Java, JavaScript, SQL
- Familiarity with continuous integration/deployment technologies
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), e.g. Ansible
- Scripting in Python, Bash or similar language
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
European retail banking firm seeks a Java Developer for a permanent position paying up to £105,000 within the firms highly agile Java development team based in London.
The team is responsible for the development of the Core Banking Digital Platforms including Risk, Payments, Lending and Customer Data. They are in the process of expansion and require an additional Java Developer providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle with an emphasis using the latest Java technology stacks.
A successful candidate will:
- Be business-oriented and focuses on the customer.
- Take a long-term approach.
- Have the courage to make decisions.
- Be innovative and proactive.
- Take responsibility for his/her own development.
- Have high ethical and moral standards.
- Like good administrative order.
- Collaborate with others to achieve joint goals.
- Contribute to the development of operations and colleagues.
Skills required:
- 4+ years of professional experience in a Software Product / IT Development sphere (Retail Banking/Finance preferred).
- Demonstrate server-side software coding maturity using Java 11+ but also knowledge of SQL (DB2 / SQL Server / Postgres ideal).
- Demonstrate excellent use of Design Patterns / Micro Services/ RESTful APIs
- Basic capability in UI Development using advanced JavaScript (React and Node.js preferred) HTML, CSS
- Working in a Technical Agile environment (e.g. Build tools, Static/Dynamic code analysis, CI/CD e.g. Jenkins/TeamCity).
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
UI Quality Assurance (QA) Specialist – London – Hybrid Working
As a UI Quality Assurance (QA) Specialist you’ll be part of a development group that is currently made up of around 40 React and C# developers, organised into feature teams, with each feature team containing a mix of front and back-end skills. We are looking to grow the group to keep up with our growing business.
The stack is comprised of React/Redux/TypeScript frontend, C# .Net Core services which call into a proprietary C++ quant library. Hosted on Linux in AWS with large calculations distributed over many instances, messaging via Redis.
Source control, CI, CD and issue tracking are all done in GitLab. Daily deployments to production using Terraform and CloudFormation to provision AWS Elastic Container Service clusters, Elastic Beanstalk environments and API Gateways.
Features and prioritisation come from our Product Owner, coordination of our Kanban workflow from our Programme Manager. We work hand in hand with world class quant analysis group who continue to enhance the C++ quant library.
Key Requirements:
- 3+ years’ experience as a UIWeb QA Specialist
- Advanced knowledge of exploratory testing techniques and writing testing documentation
- Modern single page web applications (React ideally)
- Browser DevTools
- Rest APIs
- Data Grids
- CI/CD
Desirable:
- Experience with ag-Grid and single-page web applications and exposure to finance
If large, impactful projects interest you then please apply.
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
Lead Software Developer required with a solid Java development background with an interest in utilising the best of the best possible software approaches and methodologies. Enjoy working with more than one language? For example, Python, C/C++, JavaScript, React Framewords, SQL, Rust, Scala, Go and more.
The firm’s goal is to make it easy and enjoyable for development teams to go from a business idea to delivery of an innovative production solution. This will be acheived by improving and upgrading our tools, streamlining our processes, automating and strengthening controls, and helping development teams adopt modern ways of working.
A new team of highly skilled developers and expert engineers that work to unlock and other development teams who are struggling. They are also cultural and behavioural leaders who represent the very pinnacle of our engineering culture and can help others successfully adopt the Agile mind-set and DevOps practices that our best teams follow.
Providing teams with CI/CD pipelines which helps them rapidly move a struggling team on to the latest development environments and unlock their productivity.
Key Responsibilities:
- Works with a wide variety of development teams and solves their issues, including coding directly on their project, refactoring, setting up environments and pipelines and coaching on behaviours and mind-setDrives lasting cultural change, including helping to establish an inner-source collaboration model, a DevSecOps mind-set, an Agile development approach, innovative risk management and a culture of continuous improvement
- Works closely with other teams across Developer Engineering, supporting their efforts and contributing their own insights gained from fieldwork
- A positive can do techie, whose optimism and enthusiasm for technology is infectious
- Excellent communicator who gets on well with others, building strong professional relationships
- Collaborative by nature, builds partnerships across the firm
- Creative and innovative, brings different angles to problems and provides new solutions
- Good, pragmatic judgement of when to challenge the rules and offer suggested improvements
- Obsessed with coding, working on they own projects in their spare time
- An advocate of inclusion and diversity in every way
Experience:
- Expert coder in several of our key languages, for example: Java, Python, C/C++, Javascript, SQL, Rust, Scala, Go
- Cloud Native Experience ideally GCP or AWS
- Microservices
- Proven track record of successfully coaching and guiding other developers
- Superbly knowledgeable Agile practitioner, with real-world experience and a highly disciplined approach
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and the underlying technologies used at Citi
- Detailed technical understanding of our operating environments, Linux and Kubernetes as a minimum
- History of developing on a wide variety of architectures, up to and including container based micro-services
- Ideally (but not absolutely required), experience of working in and/or running development teams in a banking environment
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
- Master’s degree preferred
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
QA Engineer - London
A QA Engineer is required to join a fast growing cross-border payments and currency exchange Technology Team. You’ll work in a multi-skilled team working side-by-side with Developers, Business Analysts, Product Managers, and QA Engineers to ensure a consistently top-class product is delivered to customers.
Requirements
- Provide QA support for the development team for both Web Applications and a RESTful API
- Document and improve the test processes
- To help mentor and teach the existing QA engineer
- Desirable to have knowledge of finance and/or FX trading
Core Technical Skills
- Ability to author test plans with an emphasis on prioritising highest risk test cases
- Experience with web API testing, manual and automated
- Experience of test automation tools/libraries such as Selenium, Cucumber, TestNG
- Experience with a querying language such as SQL.
- Good understanding of at least one of Python, C#, Java, plus OO design patterns
Desirable Technical Skills
- Good experience of QA/automation testing (Ideally Java)
- Good understanding of TDD and layers of testing; unit, acceptance, integration etc.
- Good understanding of RESTful API, contributing to design of APIs
- Ability to build, update and maintain automation test suites
- Good knowledge on Java based technologies like Maven, Spring, RestAssured is a bonus
- Experience in load and performance test tools such as Jmeter and Blazemeter
- Writing PowerShell/ Bash script and using tools such as Postman/Fiddler/VS Code
- Cloud platforms (such as AWS/Azure)
- Experience in testing web applications
- Testing Microservices/SOA and queue-based messaging system
- Experience of build and deployment tools like Octopus
- Experience in non-functional testing such as performance, security
- Experience using tools such as JIRA, Confluence
In return for this experience, you can expect to join a fast growing business with a great working environment and compensation plan.
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
