Release QA Manager – Wimbledon – Hybrid Working - £60,000 - £80,000

Release QA Manager – Wimbledon – Hybrid Working
£60,000 - £80,000

We create software that helps businesses all over the world stay connected and organized, with clients ranging from global corporations to small businesses. Our product is packed with exciting features—from email, chat, and voice support to blog posts, knowledge bases, and guides—and we're constantly evolving. There’s always something new and innovative to build!

What You'll Do as a Release Manager & QA Lead:

In this dynamic role, you'll be the hero behind smooth product releases and ensuring everything we deliver is top-notch. You'll take the reins on our regular release schedule and work with talented teams to make sure every release is seamless, on time, and free from any hiccups.

Key Responsibilities:

-     Own the release process, ensuring each one hits the mark and exceeds quality expectations.

-     Collaborate with cross-functional teams (like Product, Development, and QA) to plan and execute flawless releases.

-     Craft and implement forward-thinking release strategies, covering testing and deployment.

-     Set and uphold quality standards while leading and mentoring a small but mighty team of QA engineers and testers.

-     Dive into manual QA tasks, helping to create and refine strong test plans.

-     Work with stakeholders to prioritize and squash bugs.

-     Track progress, spot potential risks, and ensure everything stays on track.

-     In this role, you'll shape how our team approaches quality and testing—your innovative ideas are welcome!

What You Bring:

-  Proven experience in release management or as a QA lead in a software environment.

-  Strong grasp of the software development life cycle and release management processes.

-  Top-notch organizational and project management skills—you can juggle multiple releases like a pro!

-  A solid understanding of testing methodologies and CI/CD pipelines. You won’t need to configure these systems yourself, but knowing how they fit into the process is key.

-  Stellar communication skills—you’ll often be the connector between teams, ensuring things get done.

-  A sharp eye for detail and a passion for delivering high-quality software.

-  Experience with helpdesk or customer support software? Bonus points!

Why You’ll Love It Here:

-     Competitive salary + generous share options.

-     Be part of a friendly, energetic startup team in the heart of Wimbledon, just 3 minutes from the train station.

-     Play a real role in shaping a growing software company.

-     Enjoy a mix of autonomy and responsibility—you’ll have the freedom to make decisions that matter.

-     Choose your own equipment (most of us love our MacBook Pros!).

-     Great benefits, including private healthcare, pension, bike storage, parking options, and a gym discount.

If you're ready to help us shape the future and have fun doing it, we’d love to hear from you!

Lead Software Developer - USA, Remote - $85,000 - $125,000

Lead Software Developer

USA, Remote

$85,000 - $125,000

Job Description

This position will be responsible for developing and enhancing desktop database applications using C#, WPF and Microsoft SQL Server. The Developer will work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team environment to develop, maintain and support desktop applications used by the Claims Department within our GUI Framework, as well as back-end processes/services that support the front-end customers, through rapid prototyping and high frequency iterations of potential solutions.

Responsibilities

·        Support and maintenance of existing desktop WPF(Windows Presentation Foundation) applications

·        Provide data access and analysis by developing SQL objects, including stored procedures, views, etc.

·        Design, develop, and deliver new features and maintain the existing WPF applications per specifications supplied by project managers and business leads

·        Create functional code from design specifications for new development, enhancements or maintenance projects

·        Create and deliver documentation as necessary to ensure proper use of changed and newly implemented efforts

·        Follows and helps to establish architectural standards

·        Analyze production issues as necessary to determine the cause of the issue and determine the necessary course of action for resolution

·        Develop test plans, prepare test data, and document results for unit, integration and QA testing

·        Plan and facilitate deployment and support with infrastructure team

·        Skills and Experience Required

·        Extensive experience with C# for modern and legacy applications

·        Minimum 5 years’ experience using SQL Server, writing and debugging stored procedures

·        Minimum of 5 years of experience using WPF

·        Experience in developing and consuming web services along with enterprise integration

·        Experience working in entire development lifecycle for an application, including both back-end and front-end development

·        Experience with SQL Server 2016 or later, Visual Studio 2015 or later, Microsoft Office 2013 or later, Windows 10, Windows Server 2012R2 or later

·        Use of Agile Development Methodology (Scrum preferred)

·        Good knowledge of distributed or centralized source code repositories (GIT, TFS)

·        Experience in ASP.NET third party controls

Software Development Engineer In Test - USA, Multiple Locations - $100,000 to $145,000

Software Development Engineer In Test

USA, Multiple Locations

$100,000 to $145,000

Software Development Engineer in Test(SDET) – Quality Control Senior Advisor - AIM

The Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) position plays a key role in the development of AIM’s platform. SDET at AIM Specialty Health is a developer with the primary responsibility of writing automation frameworks and tools to test products. It combines the "building" aspect of software design engineering with the "breaking" aspect of software test engineering. This role involves writing code that automatically verifies the quality of the product. SDETs at AIM Specialty Health can understand software internals, debug code, automate repetitive tasks, and implement new tools and frameworks needed to streamline our quality process. Our SDETs work directly with both Software Development Engineers and Quality Assurance Engineers to understand project features, review technical designs, and implement automated test tools that help deliver quality features with efficiency. Our SDETs understand customer usage models and can develop test plans and test cases that approximate real-world environments and scenarios.

SDET Specific Responsibilities will include:

• Selects and develops Automation tools, applying the latest techniques in test automation and contributes to implementing the system through the whole development process.

• Develops, reviews, writes unit tests software components.

• Builds and maintains test scripts using an automation test tool including TDD/BDD techniques

• Works closely with the Engineering team to create and maintain software artifacts including test plans, test cases, test procedures and test reports.

• Designs, develops, and maintains robust, re-usable automated test suites according to compliance and standards.

• Estimates own testing tasks and works productively with minimum supervision while showing excellent team attitude.

• Mentors QA staff on QA best practices and new industry advances/technology/applications.

• Monitors, reports and tracks defects and issues associated with automated testing.

• Works cross functional areas with internal partner engineering teams in a disciplined agile environment.

• Participates in the performance testing and analysis.

• Debugs software products using systematic automated QA tests to develop, apply, and maintain quality standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related discipline.

• Minimum of 7 years of executing application testing and IT product quality experience

• Minimum of 5 years of experience, either in a Software Development Engineer or Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) role.

• Must have an understanding and ability to develop code in Java, Spring Boot/ Spring Cloud.

• 1 year experience with and core understanding of development practices in containerized environments, such as Docker, Kubernetes.

• 3+ years of experience with Test processes, open-source test frameworks, test design strategies, writing test cases, and automating tests in Java with frameworks like Junit, TestNG, and / or REST Assured.

• Hands on experience in web application test automation using Selenium, Appium or any equivalent tool/s.

• Strong experience in RESTful API testing using tools like JMeter, Postman or SoapUI.

• Experience with MongoDB is highly preferred.

• Understanding of CI/CD release management processes and how they integrate with quality checkpoints.

• Experience with Performance testing, tools, strategy is desired.

• Experience with tools & applications such as JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Git, Quality Center and Artifactory/Maven. 

• Experience and knowledge of Health Care Industry desired.

Why we're a great company

Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities – and making healthcare simpler. Previously known as Anthem, Inc., we have evolved into a company focused on whole health and updated our name to better reflect the direction the company is heading.

We are looking for leaders at all levels of the organization who are passionate about making an impact on our members and the communities we serve. You will thrive in a complex and collaborative environment where you take action and ownership to solve problems and lead change. Do you want to be part of a larger purpose and an evolving, high-performance culture that empowers you to make an impact?

We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

Test Automation Lead - USA, Remote - $140,000 - $150,000

Test Automation Lead

USA, Remote

$140,000 - $150,000

Job Description

The Test Automation Lead is a key role within our IT Quality Assurance team responsible for building an automation framework. The Lead will help develop an automation test strategy and roadmap for the Plan and will define and drive implementation of test automation best practices. The Lead will develop and implement the test automation framework, develop automation scripts, maintain the framework and train others on how to use and execute automated tests.

Key Functions/Responsibilities:

·        Define the test automation strategy and framework to be used across IT, and continue to enhance and modify based on industry best practices.

·        Participate in the selection of automation tools.

·        Execute automation strategy, define and manage automation metrics, and drive process improvements

·        Provide technical leadership, direction, strategy and hands-on assistance to other members of the team

·        Mentors other QA professionals in test automation best practices and adherence to overall testing strategy

·        Promote the advancement and maturity of the Plan’s automation practices through training, collaboration, and creation of standards

·        Design and implement advanced testing practices and tools. Evaluate, recommend, and implement enterprise-wide standards and process guidelines that support automated process improvement across the SDLC.

·        Establish policies and procedures to ensure that the IT organization understands their roles and responsibilities for test automation.

·        Responsible for administration of test tools and integrations required to support the test automation strategic roadmap and will implement enterprise-wide standards and process guidelines to ensure effective use of the tools

·        Ensure test scripts are documented, reported and tracked in HP Quality Center or appropriate tool

·        Assist in defining measureable testing metrics and build out automated reporting and dashboards.

·        Provide automation test reports and statistics and ensure accurate and complete documentation.

·        Supervision Exercised:  N/A

·        Supervision Received: General supervision is received weekly

Education:

·        A bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or an equivalent combination of training and experience

Experience:

·        Minimum 10 years’ experience in quality assurance/testing procedures, testing methodologies that includes implementing automation solutions

·        Experience implementing one or more automation frameworks (UTF, QC/ALM, Selenium or developed in-house)

·        QTP/UFT experience in building object repositories, standard & custom checkpoints, parameterization, reusable functions, recovery scenarios, and descriptive programming

·        Experience with a variety of testing techniques and methodologies

·        Experienced in performing test automation assessments, identifying targets for automation, and recommending automation best practices

·        Keeps current on test automation tools and their benefits or shortcomings

·        Experienced administrator for HP QuickTest Pro, Unified Functional Tester, and QC/ALM

·        Subject matter expert in software testing standards, processes, methodologies, and tools

·        Experienced with automating UI, APIs, web services and back-end processes

·        Experience in applying formal QA and testing methodologies

·        Experienced in cross-training and mentoring other team members on the automation framework and scripts development

·        Experienced in successfully automating smoke tests and regression test suites

Experience Preferred/Desirable:

·        Experience in healthcare industry preferred but not required

·        Certification or Conditions of Employment:  Pre-employment background check

Competencies, Skills, and Attributes:

·        Experience writing and debugging automated tests

·        Experience writing complex SQL select statements such as multi table joins, update and insert statements. The ability to read and understand DTS, SSIS packages, SQL job executions.

·        Experience deploying systems and/or software installations from source code management systems such as VSS, Perforce.

·        Strong oral and written communication skills.

·        A strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office products.

·        Should add something around collaborating with others, and training.

Working Conditions and Physical Effort:

·        Work is normally performed in a typical interior/office work environment

·        No or very limited physical effort required. No or very limited exposure to physical risk

·        Regular and reliable attendance is an essential function of the position.

Senior Back End Engineer – Python - USA, Remote - $123,000 - $127,000

Senior Back End Engineer – Python

USA, Remote

$123,000 - $127,000

Job Description

Does music move you the same as building technology? Are you looking to work on something to believe in? Our Engineering team is looking for you here at our company.

Location

This is a remote position. Open to candidates located in OR, WA, CA, CO, ID, AZ, TX, IL

Who We Are

We are the largest crowd-sourced, community-driven database of recorded music information in the world. Every day, millions of people use our Marketplace to connect, learn about music, and buy and sell vinyl records, CDs, and cassettes. As we continues to grow, we are looking for bright, dedicated, creative, and highly motivated people to help us realize our mission to serve the music fan in everyone. We are relatively small, so individual contributions can have a large impact. High value is placed on quality, critical thinking, and continuous improvement. Our teams work collaboratively but are distributed geographically and open-source tools are important to who we are and how we work. We value the experiences and skills each team member contributes to helping us serve our music community.

Who We’re Looking For

The Senior Backend Engineer, Catalog acts as a senior member of a group of passionate engineers to help us create software and services for our catalog.  As a technical subject matter expert, this role is instrumental in driving our catalog technology vision forward and evangelizing development and testing practices that drives the catalog transformation and growth strategies. Requires great ability to multi-task across projects as well as to adapt to different areas of the code where previous knowledge, skills, and experience may not exist. This role provides strong technical leadership and mentorship to develop the capabilities of other team members. This role motivates and fosters collaboration across the teams.

What You’ll Accomplish

·        Acts in a senior-level capacity for the technical development and delivery of features within the catalog, coordinating with Product, UX, QA, and other teams.

·        Provides senior-level technical expertise in evaluation, conceptualization, design and development of features.

·        Develops and maintains software following an Agile/Scrum methodology.

·        Participates at a senior level in the breakdown of stories into technical design and implementation tasks and participates in sprint planning and other scrum methodologies, including estimation and prioritization of development efforts.

·        Drives for continuous improvement in performance, scalability, extensibility, reliability, and usability of features.

·        Works with privacy and security teams to ensure proper architecture and maintenance.

·        Follows accessibility practices in the development of software.

·        Communicates effectively with tech and non-tech members, and is capable of delivering feedback to peers and their lead.

·        Coaches and mentors other engineers while still maintaining deep individual and team-level contributions.

·        Exemplifies how to write and review code and act on data feedback to decide what to build next.

·        Monitors and supports health of features in production.

·        Develops a working knowledge of tertiary domains.

What You’ll Contribute

·        Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from four-year college or university, or equivalent work experience.

·        5+ years related work experience.

·        Preferred technical skills - required when noted. We will consider candidates who have some or all of these skills.:

·        Python expertise (required)

·        Messaging technologies: Kafka strongly preferred

·        Data: MySQL, AWS RDS

·        Service-oriented architecture: GraphQL, REST

·        Containerization and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD

·        AWS technologies: EKS / EC2, RDS

·        Search: ElasticSearch

·        Observability: DataDog, Sentry, New Relic, other

·        Other tools: GitHub, JIRA, Slack, Confluence

·        Capable of delivering small-to-medium features all the way through from technical design to launch with no guidance.

·        Thoroughly understands the business vision, mission, and strategy and how their code supports and affects business outcomes.

·        Possess advanced knowledge in your specialization to be able to guide and mentor team members.

·        Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from stakeholders

·        Working knowledge of taking a large complex project, breaking it down into sub-tasks, and completing those tasks as required.

·        Shows initiative and seeks evidence in data to support ideas

What We Provide

·        Competitive compensation: salary, plus performance-related bonus program

·        401(k) with employer match

·        100% company-paid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents

·        4 weeks paid vacation, increasing based on tenure

·        18 weeks paid leave for birth moms

·        8 weeks paid parental leave, including for adoption

·        Monthly wellness allowance

·        Annual professional and personal development allowance

·        Work from home office set-up and expense allowances

·        Flexible work location opportunities

·        Employer matching toward charitable contributions

What We Believe In

Our companies’ mission is to serve the music fan in everyone. We represent a diverse and inclusive community, and we are committed to serving our community with innovative and creative solutions. We know that innovation happens best when varying perspectives are embraced and integrated. Our global team reflects our global community. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Software Engineer (Messaging Manager) - USA, Charlotte - Hybrid - $133,000 - $160,000

Software Engineer (Messaging Manager)

USA, Charlotte

Hybrid

$133,000 - $160,000

Job Description

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count? 

Discover your opportunity with our company, the 6th largest financial group in the world. Across the globe, we’re 160,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join our company, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

This is a hybrid position. The selected colleague will work at a company office an average of two to three days per week with the remainder worked remotely.

Job Summary:

In this role you will manage, lead, mentor and build a talented software engineering team to deliver leading edge web application, best customer experience, flexible/scalable microservices integrations across all touch points.

Collaborate with various stakeholders from end-to, -end in the company by working with technology to drive new product implementations, system development, leveraging cutting-edge solutions using existing and emerging technology platforms. Build awareness, increase knowledge, and drive adoption of modern technologies and architecture patterns, sharing customer and engineering benefits to gain buy-in

Oversee projects that adhere to continuous delivery practices with automated unit testing, integration testing, and performance testing pipelines

Thorough knowledge of complex application design and programming activities in the latest technologies: Scala, Java, Node, REST, microservices, AWS/Cloud infrastructure, Spark, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins

Provide technical leadership in terms of architecting applications, mentoring developers, making smart technology decisions, and more

Deliver projects that adhere to continuous delivery practices with automated unit testing, integration testing, and performance testing pipelines

Strong leadership, people management, and influencing skills

Ability to constructively work both independently and in collaborative environments involving all levels of management and employees

Provide technical leadership in terms of architecting applications, mentoring developers, making smart technology decisions, etc.

Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the enterprise, at all levels of the organization

Ability to successfully delivery results in a highly matrixed environment

Strong written and verbal communication skills to articulate findings clearly and effectively to wide variety of audiences including senior management

Ability to manage and deliver multiple priorities concurrently, prioritize, and efficiently complete responsibilities while maintaining the highest quality

Strong work ethic, ability to make decisions and work under tight deadlines; achievement-oriented and takes initiative

Strong Experience with managing resources (people, tools and/or budget) effectively to execute required functions

Effectively manage risks and ensure remediation plans that adhere to issues management mandates, timely issue and corrective action submission, accurate root cause identification, corrective action monitoring, on time closure, no failed validations, and no repeat issue

Qualifications:

·       Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience

·       6+ years of enterprise application management, project execution & implementations using Java, integration services, messaging/notification hub batch processing

·       6-8 years of experience managing teams in Agile environments and extensive knowledge in secure messaging technology

·       Experience in banking, financial service industry.

·       Solid experience leading and mentoring an engineer team with a wide range of skills (front end, back end, APIs, QA, and DevOps)

·       Extensive experience with major public cloud offerings and how to solution designs that are built around these technologies (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and similar)

·       Experience leading technical iteration on the design, development, documentation, testing, and deployment of platform user interface features

·       6+ years of prior experience with building distributed, multi-tier applications which are highly performant and scalable

·       Minimum 6 years of experience in developing at all levels of the application stack (front end/UI, middle/services and back end/database) using Java and related frameworks (Angular, React, CSS, HTML, Hibernate, SpringBoot, etc.)

·       Advanced knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines

·       Extensive experience with Kubernetes, and AWS, Azure, or any cloud provider

·       Experience in the banking or finance industries preferred

·       Strong leadership, people management, and influencing skills

·       Ability to constructively work both independently and in collaborative environments involving all levels of management and employees

·       Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the enterprise, at all levels of the organization

·       Ability to successfully delivery results in a highly matrixed environment

·       Strong written and verbal communication skills to articulate findings clearly and effectively to wide variety of audiences including senior management

·       Ability to manage multiple priorities concurrently, prioritize, and efficiently complete responsibilities while maintaining the highest quality

·       Strong work ethic, ability to make decisions and work under tight deadlines; achievement-oriented and takes initiative

·       Strong Experience with managing resources (people, tools and/or budget) effectively to execute required functions

·       Effectively manage risks and ensure remediation plans that adhere to issues management mandates, timely issue and corrective action submission, accurate root cause identification, corrective action monitoring, on time closure, no failed validations, and no repeat issue

·       Ability to leverage sound judgment and problem solving to tackle some of the most critical problems and connect the dots to broader implications of the work

·       Prior experience in successfully implemented messaging capabilities for web and mobile channels

·       Solid experience/understanding with object-oriented and functional languages (e.g., Java, Scala, Python, JavaScript) , Angular JS version 9+, NodeJS, React, CSS, HTML, Maven, Oracle, Apache, OpenShift, JBoss, MQ, Static code analysis, and automatic build framework

·       Six Sigma or other process improvement framework experience preferred

·       Thorough understanding of project management fundamentals and the SDLC

·       Demonstrated strong organization skills and managing resources (people, tools and/or budget) effectively to execute required functions

·       Solid experience in leading/managing technical software design and development experience in enterprise web application, integration services  

·       Demonstrated strong technical design knowhow, development guidance, coordinating across functional teams and supporting multiple parallel initiatives

·       Strong record of projects deliveries in building distributed, multi-tier applications which are highly performant and scalable

·       Successfully implementing and maintaining messaging hub or equivalent, enterprise applications, integrations APIs (REST/RESTful)

·       Advanced knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines

·       Experience OpenShift, Kubernetes, and AWS, Azure, or any cloud provider

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. 

Azure Data Engineer - Irving, TX Full-Time, Permanent - $110,000 - $120,000

Azure Data Engineer
Irving, TX
Full-Time, Permanent
$110,000 - $120,000

Required Skills:

• Experience in GCP/Azure, Strong Data modelling, Python, Experience with RDBMS, Big Data processing frameworks and tools (Cloudera, Sqoop, Hive, Impala, Spark), DevOps tools and techniques (e.g. continuous integration, Jenkins, Puppet, etc)

Preferred Skills:                                     

• Experience building/migrating data pipeline from on-prem to Cloud (GCP or any cloud)

• Understanding of cloud technologies

• Unix Scripting

• Tableau and Excel tool expertise

Job description:                                     

• Build data pipelines to ingest data from On-prem to cloud

• Experience with Big Data processing frameworks and tools (Cloudera, Sqoop, Hive, Impala, Spark)

• Experience with DevOps tools and techniques (e.g continuous integration, Jenkins, Puppet, etc)

• Experience software development on a team using Agile methodology

• Build data standardization & transformation logic using framework following Object Oriented Programming concept

• Write Unit Test scripts

• Implement standardized error handling & diagnostic logging

• Schedule and maintain production workflows on-prem as well as cloud

• Troubleshoot and resolve QA and Production defects

• Handle code review and code deployment