I am currently looking for an experienced Test Lead (SAP) join a top organisation based in Derbyshire. The role will be a contract role and will be working on a new project within the business.

Responsibilities-

• Leading a team of testers within a large organisation, ensuring that all deliverables are met
• Prioritise several deliverables, whilst dealing with other priorities, and effectively collaborate with stakeholders
• Reviewing test environment configuration, availability and security to ensure smooth execution of E2E testing
• Have strong hands on experience/ understanding of; business testing, regression testing, performance testing, smoke testing, system integration testing & production cutover
• Recommend the appropriate tools and identify areas that are suitable for automation and manual
• Work within an agile/ waterfall environment

Essential skills/ experience

• Prior experience leading E2E testing of applications
• Experience leading the overarching design, development and delivery of large-scale testing engagements across a broad range of platforms and business areas
• Experience working with SAP would be an advantage
• Experience with waterfall and agile methodologies
• Experience/ ability to deal with conflicts within teams
• Strong understanding of SDLC
• ISEB certified

Derbyshire

£375- £400 per day

Location- London

If you feel like you are a strong match for my requirements, please send me over an updated copy of CV and I will get back in touch.

Many thanks,

Connor

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

I am currently looking for an eFX Production/ Application Support Analyst to join a top investment bank based in London. The role will be a contract role and will be working on a new project within the business.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct support to the FX, Fixed Income Trading and Sales desks.
• Own the build and maintenance of tools, to industrialize support of a cutting edge in-house trading platform.
• Constantly challenging and seeking new areas for automation of manual tasks from the global team.
• Work with systems development teams ensuring best design, deployment, capacity and operability.
• Working on the trading floor you’ll be analysing requirements real time from users and technical support colleagues, designing and prototyping solutions, through to testing and deployment.

Experience required

• Experienced eFX production/ application support analyst
• A solid experience in supporting FX
• Thorough understanding in end to end trade flow, pricing and trade booking.
• Thorough understanding of electronic trading principles.
• Competent in at least one - Shell Scripting / Python / Perl / Java
• Strong knowledge of Linux environment in performance and maintenance
• Experience in ITRS monitoring and customisation.

Contract

£650- £750pd (inside of IR35)

Location- London

If you feel like you are a strong match for my requirements, please send me over an updated copy of CV and I will get back in touch.

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

I am currently looking for an experienced API Test Lead (MQ/ Middleware) join a top organisation based in London. The role will be a contract role and will be working on a new project within the business.

Responsibilities-

• Leading a team of testers within a large organisation, ensuring that all deliverables are met
• Prioritise several deliverables, whilst dealing with other priorities, and effectively collaborate with stakeholders
• Reviewing test environment configuration, availability and security to ensure smooth execution of E2E testing
• Have strong hands on experience/ understanding of; business testing, regression testing, performance testing, smoke testing, system integration testing & production cutover
• Recommend the appropriate tools and identify areas that are suitable for automation and manual
• Work within an agile/ waterfall environment

Essential skills/ experience

• Prior experience leading E2E testing of applications
• Strong experience with API (essential)
• MQ/ Middleware experience
• Experience leading the overarching design, development and delivery of large-scale testing engagements across a broad range of platforms and business areas
• Experience with waterfall and agile methodologies
• Experience/ ability to deal with conflicts within teams
• Strong understanding of SDLC
• ISEB certified

London

£375- £400 per day

Location- London

If you feel like you are a strong match for my requirements, please send me over an updated copy of CV and I will get back in touch.

Many thanks,

Connor

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

I am currently looking for an experienced Test Lead (SAP) join a top organisation based in Derbyshire. The role will be a contract role and will be working on a new project within the business.

Responsibilities-

• Leading a team of testers within a large organisation, ensuring that all deliverables are met
• Prioritise several deliverables, whilst dealing with other priorities, and effectively collaborate with stakeholders
• Reviewing test environment configuration, availability and security to ensure smooth execution of E2E testing
• Have strong hands on experience/ understanding of; business testing, regression testing, performance testing, smoke testing, system integration testing & production cutover
• Recommend the appropriate tools and identify areas that are suitable for automation and manual
• Work within an agile/ waterfall environment

Essential skills/ experience

• Prior experience leading E2E testing of applications
• Experience leading the overarching design, development and delivery of large-scale testing engagements across a broad range of platforms and business areas
• Experience working with SAP would be an advantage
• Experience with waterfall and agile methodologies
• Experience/ ability to deal with conflicts within teams
• Strong understanding of SDLC
• ISEB certified

Derbyshire

£350- £400 per day

Location- London

If you feel like you are a strong match for my requirements, please send me over an updated copy of CV and I will get back in touch.

Many thanks,

Connor

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

I am currently looking for an Equities Application Support Analyst (Front Office) to join a top investment based in London. The role will be a permanent role and will be working on a new project within the business.

Responsibilities:

Level 1 & 2 support of Front office trading platform

System monitoring and start-of-day/end-of-day checkouts

Client on-boarding and migration

Analysis and design of business-driven projects within the equities trading space

Support of several in house applications/tools

Facilitating market access for our Algorithmic trading platform

Testing & co-ordination of testing of software deployments

Assisting the traders to get the most out of the platform

Dealing with exchanges, venues and clients to further our aims

Experience required:

Experienced Applications Support Analyst

Front Office experience

FX/ Equities/ Fixed Income

Knowledge / Experience of FIX protocol

SQL experience

Strong Excel skills, Pivot tables, VBA and alike would be of use.

Front office experience within a sell side participant an advantage.

Permanent

£70,000- £90,000 (plus bonus/ benefits)

Location- London

If you feel like you are a strong match for my requirements, please send me over an updated copy of CV and I will get back in touch.

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

I am currently looking for an experienced SQL Support Analyst/ Developer- (Java/ Python/ C#) position to join a top hedge fund based in London. The role will be a permanent role and will be working on a new project within the business.

Responsibilities:

Build an understanding of and document the business processes, systems, diagnostic approaches, common problems and their solutions.

Liaise with second line/development teams to organise and prioritise fixes for issues and improvements to the systems.

Make changes to existing reporting systems to add functionality or improve reliability or performance.

Make operational and data changes to the production systems e.g. using scripts or provided user interfaces to add new or modify existing funds, brokers, assets etc.

Assist in user acceptance testing and the controlled release of changes to the production environment.

Experience required:

Experience of first line, face-to-face technical support of business users

Strong general technology/IT skills

Experience in writing and working with SQL

Programming experience in either Java/ C#/ Python

Any exposure to Microsoft Excel, Tableau or cloud technologies would be an advantage

A desire to work in a support/tactical role

Committed to providing an excellent service to the business

Permanent

£50,000- £70,000 (plus bonus)

Location- London

If you feel like you are a strong match for my requirements, please send me over an updated copy of CV and I will get back in touch.

Many thanks,

Connor

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

I am currently looking for an experienced FIX Integration Engineer position to join a top financial organisation based in London. The role will be a permanent role and will be working on a new project within the business.

Responsibilities-

Help new and existing institutional clients and broker-dealers with the implementation/integration of APIs for various STP features.

Support API integration for various fixed income products - US Investment Grade, Emerging Markets, High Yield, US Agencies, Asset Backed Securities and Credit Default Swaps.

features with client requirements/needs in mind

Work with client services, production support and development teams for speedy resolution of any issues in the test and production environments.

Experience required

Experience in a development, trade support or business analyst role.

Experience and thought leadership in certification is highly desirable. Specifically, automation of certification procedures and installing self-service tools in order to produce operational efficiencies.

FIX protocol experiences a must.

Experience with XML (DTD, schemas), TCP/IP & networking fundamentals

Good working knowledge of Unix/Linux operating system including user commands, scripting etc.

RDBMS skills (SQL Server and/or Oracle) – ability to read, write and run SQL scripts

Permanent

£60,000- £70,000 (plus bonus)

Location- London

If you feel like you are a strong match for my requirements, please send me over an updated copy of CV and I will get back in touch.

Many thanks,

Connor

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

I am currently looking for a Manual Test Analyst to join a top organisation based in Milton Keynes. The role will be a contract role and will be working on a new project within the business.

Duties and Responsibilities

Analyse new or changed functionality in order to create test plans, test cases and test scripts that can be carried out to agreed standards within a specified timeframe

Develop an understanding of the test environments and identify environment and data requirements before testing begins

Execute manual tests on new or changed functionality and record results accurately

Record and execute all test scripts in Quality Centre

Key Requirements

Experienced Test Analyst

Manual Testing experience

UAT

SQL

ALM experience

Contract

Location: Milton Keynes

£300 per day

If you feel like you are a strong match for my requirements, please send me over an updated copy of CV and I will get back in touch.

Many thanks,

Connor

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

I am currently looking for a JavaScript Automation Test Analyst (DevOps/ Cloud) to join a top financial organisation based in London. The role will be a permanent role and will be working on a new project within the business.

Duties and Responsibilities

This is an automated testing development role based within the Software Development division of the business. The role is responsible for the design, build, test, and deployment of effective automated testing solutions, providing excellent standard of reliability and quality of released software.

Key Requirements

Familiar with TDD, Three Amigos and Specification by Example in an agile environment

Experience in implementing automated tests in JavaScript or TypeScript using tools such as Cucumber, Mocha Serenity/JS.

Understanding on build pipelines with hands on experience to amend the build process. Experience on Jenkins is a plus.

Experience in testing non-functional requirements and exploratory testing.

Exposure to performance testing and working on defining workloads and strategy to test solutions.

Familiarity with AWS services, especially server-less architecture and lambdas is also nice to have

Permanent

£85,000- £100,000 (plus benefits)

Location: London

If you feel like you are a strong match for my requirements, please send me over an updated copy of CV and I will get back in touch.

Many thanks,

Connor

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

I am currently looking for an experienced SQL Support Analyst/ Developer- (Java/ Python/ C#) position to join a top hedge fund based in London. The role will be a permanent role and will be working on a new project within the business.

Responsibilities:

Build an understanding of and document the business processes, systems, diagnostic approaches, common problems and their solutions.

Liaise with second line/development teams to organise and prioritise fixes for issues and improvements to the systems.

Make changes to existing reporting systems to add functionality or improve reliability or performance.

Make operational and data changes to the production systems e.g. using scripts or provided user interfaces to add new or modify existing funds, brokers, assets etc.

Assist in user acceptance testing and the controlled release of changes to the production environment.

Experience required:

Experience of first line, face-to-face technical support of business users

Strong general technology/IT skills

Experience in writing and working with SQL

Programming experience in either Java/ C#/ Python

Any exposure to Microsoft Excel, Tableau or cloud technologies would be an advantage

A desire to work in a support/tactical role

Committed to providing an excellent service to the business

Permanent

£50,000- £70,000 (plus bonus)

Location- London

If you feel like you are a strong match for my requirements, please send me over an updated copy of CV and I will get back in touch.

Many thanks,

Connor

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.