Performance tester required for an initial 3 month rolling contract with a national logistics company. You will be responsible for Performance testing across the full project landscape and associated systems. Main requirements listed below:

• Performance test planning documentation
• Capability in the development of scripts and scenarios with HPE LoadRunner
• Ability to analyse performance test results to establish business impact
• Experience of multi supplier environments
• Ensuring that test results and appropriate evidence is captured in Zephyr for tests executed

This role is 3 months rolling contract, initially remote, and inside IR35,
Please send a CV to shoggan@mcgregor-boyall.com for immediate consideration.

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Infrastructure Project Manager required to take on a six month contract position with a dynamic financial services organization focused on modernization and customer experience, bringing financial services into the 21^st century. You will join a fast-paced established team based in Glasgow working within the Business Banking division on a crucial project focusing on service design and continuous improvement across the business.

Experience Required:

• Experience of liaison with IT suppliers in terms of plan deliverables and problem resolution
• Relevant experience in project management; project planning, management, financial management, estimation, and decision analysis skills.
• Experience of managing projects with infrastructure deliverables.
• Clear evidence of budget management skills and financial processes and governance.
• Problem management skills commensurate with those required to manage internal and external resources in scoping and resolution of complex issues.

For more information or to apply please send your CV to shoggan@

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UI test analyst(manual and automation) required for an exciting opportunity is with a leading Financial Services organization based in Knutsford. This team is responsible for testing a custom build UI which manages live web apps across the organisation

This is the ideal time to join the business as its early in the project and you will be working as part of a high functioning team which consists of designers and developers working to a scaled agile approach.

You will have previous experience of UI testing and be someone who thrives in a challenging environment, you will work as part of a rapidly growing UI team who work closely with the business to define test requirements, and working end to end through the software development life cycle. This role will have manual and automated testing responsibilities, and with it being UI you will be understand the web accessibility initiative and WCAG 2.1 AA.

The main technical duties of the role will involve Cross-browser, cross- device testing and knowing when to automate using tools like Selenium, Jasmine or Cypress. Any experience of JavaScript would be highly beneficial.

This position offers a fantastic opportunity to develop your testing skills in supportive environment, working with interesting technologies on a high profile and important project for the business. A keen interest and willingness to pick up new skills is important to be successful in this role.

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

McGregor Boyall has an exciting opportunity for a Quality Assurance analyst/SDET to help improve the test coverage across the organisation. You will be involved in all aspects of quality assurance activities including manual and Automation testing as part of an energetic and highly experienced team.

You will be involved in all aspects of QA, particularly developing testing frameworks using JavaScript, Selenium WebDriver and Node.JS. To be successful in this role you will ideally have most of the below:

• Ability to interpret complex business requirements and design quality test cases that can be reused.
• Relevant QA automation experience in developing testing frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, JavaScript, NodeJS, WebdriverIO
• Experience in system integration, user acceptance and regression testing.
• Recent experience testing back end API’s, complex web applications and FIX protocols.
• Good understanding and experience in load/performance testing of web-application and APIs

Financial services experience is preferred but not essential. In return , you'll be part of a high functioning team who deliver robust solutions using a wide array of technologies.

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Junior Python Developer required to join a Global Financial services clients Glasgow based team(currently remote working is available). You'll be working as part of the infrastructure and DevOps team using Python scripts for automation.

Experience includes:-

• Python programming background, some commercial experience would be beneficial.
• Understanding of infrastructure and tooling, ideally LINUX(RHEL) and Git.
• Interested in learning tools like Jenkins, Git, Jira, Docker, SaltStack in a CI/CD environment.

In return you'll find a flexible working environment with the opportunity to work remotely as required. You will be joining A highly experienced software team where you will be able to learn new skills and improve your CV.

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Test analyst (Data) required to support a growing BI Test functions for a national logistics company based in central London. To be successful in this role you will have previous enterprise level experience and a proven record of testing data into the cloud. The role will involve:

• SQL
• Cloud (GCP) is essential
• Qliksense or Qlickview
• Agile

This role is inside IR35 and a 3 month rolling contract. Initaill remote until safe to be back in an office and then split bwteeen office and remote working.

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Front Office Application Support Specialist required to be part of a growing team in London. Currently there are 4 in London and 2 in New York that are responsible for ensuring the smooth running and stability of OMSs and EMSs for this FS client. The role will focus on Charles River but will also include responsibility for real time position and pnl systems.

This role will include monitoring critical systems, anticipating and resolving issues as they arise and thinking of ways of reducing common problems. Possessing good analytical skills to assist in resolving complex issues.
You will also provide 24/5 operational and business support of all critical systems. The Portfolio Management and Trading systems operate 24 hours a day from Sunday night to Friday evening. This position will involve working shifts of 8.5 hours per day between 07:00 – 18:00, Monday-Friday.

Main responsibilities:

• Front Office application providing technical and business support to portfolio managers, execution traders and trade support. This includes providing quick resolutions to app issues, driving stability and improvements to help the business to succeed
• Monitor trades and booking issues – advise traders, portfolio managers and desk assistants
• SOD checks, continuous monitoring and regional handover
• Develop and maintain technical documentation
• User administration and training
• Understand and assess impact of issues and escalate to management in a timely manner.
• Assist Development teams in testing bug fixes and enhancements to current systems
• Record and take ownership of issues using internal ticketing system and following through to successful resolution
• Ensure that all procedures and policies are up to date in the knowledge base and are available for use by all members of the team
• Implementing change control for the production estate.

You will have experience in most of the following:

• 3-5 years’ experience in providing business and technical support for a buy side institution.
• Charles River is preferable but experience of supporting similar OMSs will be considered. EMSs (such as Portware, Fidessa, Trading Screen, are also desirable).
• In depth experience working with the Front Office – execution traders and portfolio managers
• Good understanding of FICC trading flows, equities is desirable
• Good knowledge of FIX protocols.
• Familiarity with trading venues such as Bloomberg, Tradeweb or FX Connect
• Understanding of Windows Operating Systems and SQL Server
• Ability to work alone and possess a proactive and flexible mindset
• Experience writing complex SQL queries
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Technical test analyst required to help test a business critical application for a national logistics company based in central London. To be successful in this role you will have previous enterprise level experience and a proven record of supporting high-level and detailed test planning; test preparation; test execution; test reporting.

The role will involve:

• Full lifecycle manual testing – System, regression, SIT and UAT
• Jira for defect tracking
• ALM/Quality centre
• Large programme experience (multi year ideally)
• experience of testing software to hardware applications would be useful
• SQL experience for data querying
• Experence testing XML Validations

This role is inside IR35 and a 12 month contract initially

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Software test analyst, required to help test a business critical application for a national logistics company based in Milton Keynes. due to continued projects demands this team is experiencing significant growth. To be successful in this role you will have previous enterprise level experience and a proven record of supporting high-level and detailed test planning; test preparation; test execution; test reporting.

The role will involve:

• Full life cycle manual testing - System, regression, SIT and UAT
• Jira for defect tracking ALM/Quality centre
• Agile experience
• Database testing - TOAD, SQL or similar
• Good comms, you will be liaising with different business units to define the test plans/scripts
• Any previous experience testing E-commerce applications would be beneficial

this role is inside IR35 and initially fully remote although onsite in milton keynes will be expected once its safe to be back in an office environment.

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.