Software Development & Test Engineer (12 month contract)

Software Development & Test Engineer (12 month contract)

The Purpose of the Role

The software development and test engineer is a key part of the technology team that operates the Freedom Fibre Wholesale Fibre platform. The software development and test engineer both produces solution designs and code suitable to solve development requirements identified, whilst also providing guidance to their wider team.

Core Responsibilities

-        Create software solutions for defined problems

-        Work with the Architecture team and wider business to ensure that requirements are accurate  

-        Merging code into the CI/CD process

-        Review code produced by team members

-        Provide support for existing code deployments

-        Support with resolving defects

-        Prepare, execute & document tests of software-based delivery items

-        Development of related automatic test suites and the platforms required to run these test suites

-        Oversee some aspects of the release process, in particular, early life defect remediation, feature requests and ad-hoc support for user queries.

Skills & Experience

-        Experience of distributed cloud systems, and specifically Amazon Web Services

-        Experience of Python in a commercial development environment

-        Experience of Full Stack and Java development is desirable

-        Understanding of both relational NoSQL database technologies and their cloud versions

-        Experience of creating and using secure APIs

-        Troubleshooting performance issues with applications and APIs

-        Experience of Terraform

-        Experience of Test-Driven Development

-        Experience developing test suites for software-based deliverables that include;

o   Web based UI's

o   REST or SOAP API's

o   Business software processes (e.g. Database interaction)

-        Experience of test automation application development

Qualifications

-        In-service training in subjects related to the testing process, automated tooling and quality systems

-        AWS (Amazon Web Services) Certification is desirable

Personal Attributes

-        A positive and proactive attitude to problem solving

-        Attention to detail

-        A team player, willing to get involved and help others when needed, with a driven personality who asks questions and actively participates in discussions

Reporting to

Technical Lead

Our ideal fit

Someone who is a team player, they must be willing to get their sleeves rolled up from time to time, to take this business to one that is an industry leader.

Working with Freedom Fibre

We operate in a relaxed and industrious atmosphere; you will be encouraged to speak out and contribute wherever you feel you have something to offer.  Our offices are open 07:00 through to 19:00 and we are happy to be flexible with working hours so you can enjoy a relatively stress-free commute or work from home to create the best possible work life balance that suits you and Freedom Fibre.

We offer an attractive package including bonus, generous pension, private health care and flexible working along with other benefits.

Freedom Fibre recognise the service provided by recruitment agencies and as such have a Preferred 2nd tier Supplier List, with whom terms of business have been agreed. Only suppliers who have signed up to these terms can place candidates with Freedom Fibre and will receive instruction directly from us to do so. Freedom Fibre is therefore unable to consider speculative CV's or proposals from any other third party and any speculative CV's or proposals being sent into the organisation will be treated as gifts.

As such, Freedom Fibre reserves the right to directly contact any candidates who have been speculatively submitted by a third party and shall therefore not be liable for any fees whatsoever should it choose to engage the candidate’s services. Furthermore, speculative submission of candidate CV's does not establish a right of representation should the same candidate’s details also be submitted by a Freedom Fibre Preferred 2nd tier Supplier or independently by the candidate themselves.

Submission of any unsolicited CV's and proposals to Freedom Fibre will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of these terms and agreement that these terms are the totality of any commercial or contractual relationship whatsoever in respect of the candidate(s) whose unsolicited CV's were sent.