Contract Senior Software Developer / DevOps / QA Test

Contract Senior Software Developer/DevOps/QA Test – Devon.

Are you an experienced DevOps / Software developer who is looking for a challening contract opportunity,working with a first class peer group, to work on technology that makes a difference to improve people’s lives? If so, this contract will be of interest for you.

Title: Senior Software Developer / DevOps / QA Test Location: Devon commutable from Exeter, Plymouth, Torquay, Taunton, Okehampton and Exmouth.
Salary: c£480 – £600per day, dependent upon experience.

Duration: 6 months. Full time.

Job Description:
You will use your skills and expertise to help bolster, improve and optimise the development / testing process to ensure robustness of our client’s system.
You’ll be working directly with developers and quality assurance engineers, immersing yourself into their Agile/SCRUM environment.
If you’ve got a strong academic background in a computing subject, experience with object orientated programming languages, ideally with experience of, or a desire to, managing or mentoring a team and a passion for technology, then you’ll relish this opportunity.

Key responsibilities:
Performing software quality reviews to ensure solutions meet our client’s high standards.
Providing early feedback from exploratory testing to resolve issues as soon as possible.
Logging, retesting and closing bugs, reproducing and debugging issues and providing developers with good bug reports.
Helping to maintain our client’s testing and demonstration infrastructure and hardware.
Designing and implementing automated tests.
Working with the wider team to ensure the product is the best it can be.
Providing support to your team – offering technical guidance and support.
Being positive and infectiously enthusiastic about the values and vision of the company.

Essential Skills and Experience:
of coding in one or more of the following: Python, C, C++, C#, Objective C, R, MATLAB, SAS, SQL, Java, Ruby, HTML/CSS/JS.
A 2:1 degree in a technical or scientific discipline.
A passion and aptitude for technology.
Proactive, enthusiastic and energetic.
Tenacious and resilient.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Desirable Skills and Experience:
of working with source control and automated build and test systems
Experience of testing mobile applications and web platforms.
Knowledge of testing in an Agile environment.
Experience of working with JIRA.
Ability to use Apple hardware, including Mac laptops and iPads.
Previous tutoring, mentoring or line management experience.

About You: You’ll be passionate about technology and difference through the use of technology and data analysis. You’ll be driven to achieving the best in a very fast paced environment that operates on the motto of “fail fast” in order to reach solutions and improvements quickly. You’ll be creative in your approach to solving problems and flexible so as to discard processes that do not work. You’ll be able to learn from mistakes and not be daunted by problems that arise. You’ll be determined to see the work through. You’ll be comfortable meeting with clients and product users in order to improve the product whilst it is in use.

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