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Position:  Lead SDET

Location: London

Salary £DOE

Lead SDET needed for an innovative global payment platform that are helping businesses and individuals move money around the world faster. My clients have more than 250,000 global customers and over 150,000 global businesses and are looking for a Lead SDET to help manage, build and move the QA teams to an automated environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Take the initiative to collaborate with different team members across the program and wider organisation to make sure quality is embedded in both processes and technology.
• Lead the strategy for learning and adopting new test tools depending on various project recommendations.
• Use practical experience to help teams understand new business domains and help them analyse, test and build quality software.
• Use proven experience in collecting information and evidence, identifying problems and opportunities and ensuring recommendations fit with strategic business objectives.
• Take a systems thinking approach to improve engineering and the processes that support delivery of a project
• Encourage constructive conflict situations to enable quantum leaps forward in the tools, techniques and delivery of the team.
• Lead the strategic implementation of the quality strategy in the team. Surface and promote good practice and the findings of empirical experimentation throughout the organisation.

Ideally you will need:

• 5+ year experience for software testing and 1+ year team management experience
• An enhanced understanding of the QA methodologies & processes
• Experience with Automation & Manual testing
• Coaching and leading in practices like Pair Programming, Test Driven Development (TDD), Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD)
• In-depth experience in non-functional testing, e.g., Load / soak / performance, security and accessibility, by using standard and new testing techniques.
• To have strong knowledge in either Java/C#/C++
• Experienced with various database systems of Oracle/MySQL/SQL Server/PostgreSQL

• Are you an up and coming C# Developer with skills/interest in cloud tech?

• Want to learn on B I G scale? Prepare to be amazed!

• Keen to work with a super cool FinTech that’s changing the industry?

• Happy to work remotely within a very smart & super collaborative engineering team?

• Fancy learning all elements of micro-services, CQRS and cutting services technology?

Essential Experience:

• At least 3 years of C# experience - competent with MVC, REST, Web-API, etc
• Azure (App Services, Functions, Queues, Blobs, Tables, Databases, Key Vault, Data Factory)
• Well versed in writing clean, clear, well tested, reusable code
• Good understanding of SOLID, Design Principles, TDD/Unit Testing and ideally C.I
• Bonus points if you’ve had exposure to Angular2>

Desirable skills

• Microservices or Serverless architecture
• DDD / Domain Driven Design, Event Sourcing or CQRS
• Angular.js, Vue.js OR React.js

The company and its goal:

The combination is simple. Combine founders from Goldman Sachs + JP Morgan, a record £17M investment, state of the art engineering & technology, and you create a next-generation platform that makes investing accessible to the everyday person, with substantially lower fees & better ethics!

What you're looking at is a new Fintech/Wealth Management company that provides scalable, low cost and highly customised investment services that would otherwise be reserved for high net-worth individuals.

Having spent the past 4 years meticulously building an incredible development team the business has not stopped growing.

As a C# Azure Developer, you can expect:

We've invested heavily in Azure as our cloud platform provider and now we want to further expand our development in this area. You will be leveraging this tech help build better & more scalable products for end users that reduce operational risk and increase revenue.

• Developing back-end services such as performance & scalability, security & resilience, data processing and system integrations.
• Tech such as C#, Web-API, REST, Azure, SQL, and working with Design Patterns.
• Opportunity to work full stack with Angular.

• A true Agile environment with Scrum Master; Poker, retro’s, peer reviews, sprints, stand-ups.
• Proper code delivery; TDD & thorough testing + C.I.
• A very smart team of 13 hand-picked elite software engineers + product specialists.
• A culture that runs on innovation and continually inputting YOUR ideas.
• Report directly to a CTO who’s sharp, on the ball, and “on the ground” with the team – highly respected & very knowledgeable.

Working remotely;

• You're trusted to manage your own work schedule and in return, you are expected to be efficient, productive, and of course, creative.
• More junior members will work closely with colleagues via a dedicated buddy system.

How the team deliver code;

• A fine-tuned Agile scrum team who eat, sleep and breath quality code and good testing!
• 2-week sprints, daily stand-ups, Poker planning, unit tests/TDD, Code Reviews, Continuous Integration.

Technology & Tools used in the TEAM

• C# v5, coupled with MVC, .Net Core, SQL & Microservices
• Azure (DevOps, app services, functions, SQL databases, Data Factory, Logic apps and more)
• Angular7/8>, HTML5, CSS3, Ionic, Sketch, Invision, Adobe Creative Suite
• Visual Studio, GIT, NPM, Xunit, Moq, Selenium and more

Salary: Approx £40-50k depending on experience

.NET / C# Developer required for our Client a large and well respected Consultancy based in the Netherlands.

You will work with an existing development team, build and maintain components that form the digital front door of the company with the solution forming part of the relationship with customers and chain partners.

You will develop custom .NET / C# in the Content management systems - Sitecore with experience in SOAP, XML, HTML, CSS, Javascript and Ajax.

This role is fully REMOTE - 6 months+ in duration - Hourly pay rate - €70/day

Fluent Dutch is required.