A leading investment bank based in Belfast, Northern Ireland seeks a Test Engineer on a contract basis. You will be working on a number of Front Office IT based projects over 2019/2020.

Therefore it is essential that you have experience of working in the Financial Services sector ideally within the Front Office area of an investment bank. It is also highly desirable that you have worked with tools like - TestComplete etc.

As this is an Test Engineer position you will be expected to perform the following duties on a day to day basis –

• implementation and execution of an automation test framework for functional and non-functional testing

• Quantify and track automation test coverage

• Making the QA team the quality gate before software products are delivered to our clients

• Identify and highlight ways to continuously optimise the way in which QA function operates to create an efficient, scalable team

You will also be liaising with a number of key stakeholders and separate business functions within the organisation, this is where your Front Office IT knowledge will be utilised.

If you have the following skills/experience and are interested in this position please apply -

Essential

• Test Engineering experience

• Experience of working in the Front Office IT space

• Technology background - SQL, UNIX etc

• Experience of working with tools like TestComplete

• Financial Services background

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

A leading financial services company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland seeks an Automation Test Engineer on a contract basis. You will have experience of working with tools like - Selenium or TestComplete etc.

Therefore it is essential that all applicants have a Testing background working with tools like - Selenium or TestComplete etc. You will also have experience of working in the Financial Services sector.

As this is an Automation Test Engineer position you will be expected to perform the following duties on a day to day basis –

• implementation and execution of an automation test framework for functional and non-functional testing

• Quantify and track automation test coverage

• Making the QA team the quality gate before software products are delivered to our clients

• Identify and highlight ways to continuously optimise the way in which QA function operates to create an efficient, scalable team

You will also be liaising with a number of key stakeholders and separate business functions within the organisation, this is where your Automation knowledge will be utilised.

If you have the following skills/experience and are interested in this position please apply -

Essential

• Automation testing experience

• Experience of working with tools like Selenium or TestComplete

• Technology background - SQL, UNIX etc

• Experience of working in Financial Services

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

MG042 – Marketing Manager

12-month FTC – Limerick, Ireland – Competitive Day Rate

Our client is a specialist centre within a huge family of companies, which operates in 57 countries employing 117,000 people. The department design, deliver & develop high quality business applications, software solutions and data analytics for the rest of the group. They act as a start-up within a large global business and need a Marketing Manager to raise their profile externally, internally and ensure they attract the best talent.

In this role, you will:

• Align marketing communications to create specialised centres for software development and data analytics whereby the most valuable technology is developed and maintained by highly skilled employees and key partners who optimize value and creativity.
• Develop and implement the marketing plan and communications strategy, partnering with software developers and communication colleagues; senior directors and other functions as appropriate.
• Take full responsibility for internal communications across the global development centre.
• Understand the competitive employment frame and collect market intelligence.
• Develop content, manage and measure traditional, digital web and social media communications channels to drive effective communications and engagement.
• Engage with external agencies, partners and industry events focussed on careers and recruitment.
• Build partnerships with academic institutions focussed on software development to ensure access to key graduates.
• Manage local communications budget as appropriate.

To be successful, you will have experience developing and implementing marketing and communication campaigns to attract talent; both for experienced hires and at graduate level. You might have worked in a large FMCG or pharmaceutical business or have some exposure within the technology sector.

If you have the experience required and interested in both contract and permanent opportunities, please send your CV to Marianna Georgiou on MGeorgiou@mcgregor-boyall.com or apply through the link provided.

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

Ruby on Rails Developer - London – Working alongside a CTO who is in the core team responsible for the current direction of Rails!!!

I am working with one of the leading digital agency in Uk. The client is looking Ruby developers ranging from Jr – Lead to start in the central London office however, you will not be required to go into the office day-in day-out as you will be doing a lot of onsite client facing development, you will also be working with one of the core board members responsible for the current direction of Rails.

The client works on projects from early stage start up – corporate and Government projects.

What you will need

• 2 years Ruby on Rails experience
• HTML/CSS/JavaScript/JQuery/Coffeescript
• SQL databases
• TDD/BDD
• Git
• UK Based (sponsorship can be offered but you would need to be based in uk)

As stated above the client is looking to pay up to £85,000 Bens. If you are interested or would like to know more about the role, please apply for immediate consideration.

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

A leading consultancy firm seeks a Operational Support Analyst on a permanent basis to help monitoring and managing changes of a scalable, multi-tenant Kafka Cluster, hosting hundreds of clients generating a high load. The role will be based in Belfast, Ireland.

Therefore it is essential that all applicants have prior Support Analysis experience, as well as hands on experience with Kafka and Linux operating systems.

As this is a Operations Support Analyst position you will be expected to perform the following duties on a day to day basis –

• You will work with technical clients who produce to/consume from the Kafka Cluster and Vendors who offer enterprise support.

• You will respond to customer requests regarding outages, performance degradation and project status.

• You will resolve customer technical issues through diligent research, reproduction and troubleshooting.

• You will document all technical inquiries and produce/review content for the companies knowledge base.

You will also be liaising with a number of key stakeholders and separate business functions within the organisation, this is where your Operations Support Analysis experience will be utilised.

If you have the following skills/experience and are interested in this position please apply -

Essential

• Experience as a Operations Support Analysis

• Hands on experience with Kafka

• Experience with Linux operating systems

Desirable

• Experience of working with real-time monitoring systems for middleware platforms

• Hands on experience with supporting, troubleshooting and monitoring applications deployed in a cloud environment

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

Oracle Developer/DBA( PL/SQL, Performance tuning, UNIX, RAC)

Oracle Developer/DBA required for Global financial services clients Belfast based offices. The role is initially 6 months of work and teh successful candidate will have most or all of the below:

Essential

• SQL and PL/SQL
• Performance Tuning
• Ability to Troubleshoot issues across the complete Application Tier and articulate solutions both at a technical and managerial Level
• Ability to understand Application Data models and correlation of data characteristics on performance

Optionally

• Unix shell scripting
• Demonstrate coding scripts/tools to aid maintenance / support of team
• RAC 12c exposure
• Oracle on Linux
• ASM

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