Expleo Ireland

• Develops strategies and directs teams ensuring that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are signed off. Proactively aims to achieve personal and team utilisation targets.
• Takes full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation and satisfactory completion of medium scale projects with diverse scope. Facilitates scoping and business priority setting for complex changes, engaging senior stakeholders as required.
• Scope of responsibility includes any and all phases of the project life cycle as well as project team management and possible budget administration.
• Tracks resources and assures deliverables are met, negotiates effectively for key resources, and screens and selects team members.
• Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements seeking to fully address client needs, identifying, evaluating and recommending options, plus the establishment of a base-line on which delivery of a solution can commence.
• Demonstrates use of a structured iterative methodologies, manages scope changes and communicates the impacts, and secures approval when needed.
• Ensures that realistic project plans are maintained, ensuring regular and accurate communication to stakeholders, consistent with the methods in use.
• Develops project plans using standard project management tools, e.g. MS Project or Project Workbench.
• Uses metrics and project plans to assess the success of the project and makes necessary changes. Reports project progress to project sponsors and management.
• Analyses relationships between apparently independent problems and issues. Probes and initiates research to identify critical problems. Reviews and cross-reviews reports. Identifies trends and translates analytical reports into management presentations, and provides guidance to resolve issues.
• Leads knowledge transfer and project post-mortem for lessons learned and improving best practices.
• Identifies, quantifies and manages issues impacting delivery of projects. Establishes clear goals and priorities needed to assess performance.
• Meets on-time and on-budget project goals and participates in the identification of and planning for future resource needs.

Essential

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience

Desirable

• Management qualification or equivalent years of experience
• Knowledge of MS SharePoint
• Knowledge of financial processes
• One or more industry certification e.g. Prince 2, PMP etc.

Level and/or knowledge required:

General

• Has achieved trusted advisor status at a senior level with the client.
• Excellent client facing skills, as an expert in their field has experience of influencing client decision making and direction, takes time to establish underlying needs of client beyond those initially expressed.
• Applies insight, originality and a broad perspective to generate revolutionary technical solutions.
• Experience of introducing new concepts or strategies that significantly improve or revise the way business is done through to implementation.
• Excellent communication and presentations skills, maintains confidentiality, shares ideas and information, facilitates discussions and transfers knowledge to diverse audiences to achieve collective objectives.

Technical

• Strong theoretical knowledge in project management methodologies, applying standards and specialist project management expertise to deliver whilst providing effective management to teams.
• Experience and track record of successful project delivery utilising multiple project management methodologies, frameworks, tools and techniques.
• Extensive application/technology and domain knowledge and has recognised expertise in project management including participating in the identification of and planning for future resource needs.
• Extensive experience with all stages of the product development lifecycle (concept to launch).
• Knowledge of client/server architecture, object-oriented design/development and package implementation.
• Strong knowledge of new and emerging technologies based on own area of expertise.
• Experience in managing the change control procedure. Can recommend and advocate substantive process enhancements and assess both internal and external implications.
• Experience in diagnosing problems using formal problem-solving tools and techniques from multiple angles and probing underlying issues to generate multiple potential solutions.
• Experience in advising clients and clearly communicating the benefits of implementing specific solutions and identifying areas to add value.
• Expert skills in MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Experience in detailed use of project planning, tools, and milestones appropriate for the size and scale of the project. A proven record in collaborating with stakeholders at all levels, in the conduct of investigations for strategy studies, business requirements specifications and feasibility studies.

Management

• Good people management skills. Acts as a role model for continuous learning and development, and challenges others to reflect and learn.
• Experience of managing people and creating an environment that celebrates both successes and failures.
• Good self-management. Takes on high commitments and works to achieve results. Keeps momentum going over time despite setbacks, showing resilience in the face of challenges and looks for ways to beat previous standards.
• Experience in managing upwards with multiple people, gaining their trust quickly.

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and set backs
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

Core Programme Test Manager Skills:

• Develops strategies and directs teams with diverse scope on complex programmes of work.
• Facilitation of workshops and requirement gathering sessions and able to describe the level of risk associated with various projects.
• Ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are signed off, proactively aims to achieve personal and team utilisation targets.
• Uses project planning tools and participates in the identification of and planning for future resource needs. Develops a fit-for-purpose reporting mechanism.
• Responsible for overall test plan design and processes, applying, articulating and constructing business specific end to end scenarios, defining standards for the development of test scripts, deployment and reuse.
• Specifies the test environment for the whole life-cycle testing and ensuring it reflects business requirements for execution. Consults with key business stakeholders to ensure application design is optimised for testability.
• Allocates and co-ordinates test schedules, work and resource plans; managing progress of all activities against the plan, managing own deliverables and that of others to meet delivery deadlines.
• Provides quality assurance evaluation estimates on various projects, including the ability to execute vision, goals and direction of a team/teams.
• Diagnoses problems and probes underlying issues to generate multiple potential solutions.
• Can proactively anticipate and prevent problems, facilitates buy-in and guides implementation of corrective and/or preventive actions for complex issues. Identifies potential consequences and risk levels.
• Creates quality assurance procedures and user instructions to ensure a reusable process and tools approach. Defines and implements quality process improvements and metrics focused on defect prevention.
• Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects or release level.
• Inputs into proof of concept exercises and assists sales with pre-sales collateral. Identifies opportunities to expand client assignments

Client Delivery

• Manage all aspects of the delivery lifecycle;
• Assure the quality of delivery
• Promote industry standards, best practice.
• Initiate, drive and implement continual improvements
• Build and manage credible, trusted advisor relationships with key client stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Manage the client relationship from the delivery perspective, ensuring the onsite resources are delivering to the agreed engagement terms;
• Participate in formal client progress review meetings,       providing relevant reporting as agreed on a client-by-client basis based on standard expleo approaches;
• Work with the Consultancy Organisation to resource client projects to achieve the corporate goal of having “the right consultant in the right place”;
• Liaise with Finance & Administration to ensure resourcing needs (current, known and tentative) are entered into the resource planning system (currently Changepoint) in a timely and accurate way;
• Liaise with the Market Directors, Legal and Finance & Admin to ensure relevant legal commercial coverage is in place across all client engagements;
• Ensure relevant client reporting is performed to expleo standards, schedule and is accurate.
• Ensure that deliverables are on time and to required scope and quality standards.
• Proactively identify opportunities for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the technical delivery, or the programme as a whole. Challenge internal stakeholders to contribute to improvements to the overall effectiveness of the delivery process.

Essential:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• ISTQB

Desirable:

• Additional course or certification in Quality Assurance
• Project Management qualification
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• ISTQB Advanced
• Additional course or certification in Quality Assurance
• Project Management qualification

• Extensive technical knowledge and experience with complex IT programmes.
• Strong theoretical knowledge in quality assurance methodologies, applying standards and specialist quality assurance expertise to deliver whilst providing effective management to teams.
• Extensive application/technology and domain knowledge and has recognised expertise in QA Management including participating in the identification of and planning for future resource needs.
• Strong knowledge of new and emerging technologies based on own area of expertise.
• Experience in managing the change control procedure.
• Experience in providing technical management and being responsible for overall test plan design and processes and experience in quality assurance evaluation estimates on various projects.
• Experience in diagnosing problems using formal problem-solving tools and techniques from multiple angles and probing underlying issues to generate multiple potential solutions.
• Experience in advising clients and clearly communicating the benefits of implementing specific quality assurance solutions and identifying areas to add value.
• Excellent client facing skills
• People management skills - introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions
• Team work and emotional intelligence
• Good self-management – continuous performance is both an objective and a mind-set
• Has an innovative approach – a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance
• High value on openness and transparency

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and set backs
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

• Design, build and deploy effective packages and scripts using appropriate tools.
• Create, support existing ETL process
• QA - identify and test for bugs and bottlenecks in the ETL solution (unit testing and code reviews)
• Identify and propose automated testing approaches
• Design, build, improve existing reconciliation approach/ code
• Create reconciliation reporting that would meet business needs
• Translate requirements from the Business Analyst into technical code (data mapping between source and target system, reconciliation data set requirements) with understanding of data structure
• Collaborate with Business Analysts to understand business requirements and deliver expected solution
• Developing solutions for improving existing performance
• Collaborate with project manager to meet project timeliness
• Create technical artefacts needed for project documentation

• Third level qualification in Computer Science/IT/Software Engineering

• Must be dedicated and demonstrate strong skills in communication, problem solving and collaboration.
• Work in team environment and provide project status reports and be able to present solutions to peers and business groups.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Self-motivated, independent and take initiative

• Proficient with DB2 database design in a mainframe environment
• Experience in complex ETL design using DB2 data sources
• Experience in database development
• Knowledge of mainframe related technologies
• Knowledge and experience in regards to testing approaches applied to databases, including ETL, stored procedures and schema testing
• Experience in data migration projects
• Working with Temenos T24 data sources is a plus

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and set backs
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

• Create code using Cobol or PL1 as appropriate to add new functionalities to existing mainframe-based services.
• Client engagement - Liaise daily/weekly with client stakeholders during development cycle – as subject matter expert you will be able guide/mentor them in choosing the optimum solution.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications developed.
• Work on bug fixing and troubleshooting incidents and anomalies.
• Software Engineering – Explore emerging technologies through R&D initiatives from time to time.

• Third level qualification in Computer Science/IT/Software Engineering

• Client-facing skills
• People management skills - introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions
• Team work and emotional intelligence
• Good self-management – continuous performance is both an objective and a mind-set
• High value on openness and transparency

• A minimum of 8 years experience working in mainframe technologies is essential. This is a senior position so you will need to be able to take ownership of projects.
• A full understanding of different frameworks, tools and other relevant technologies, including CICS, DB2, VSAM, etc.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.
• Solid understanding of the full software development life cycle.Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified.

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and set backs
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

• Directs technical areas of complex medium scale projects with diverse scope.
• Sets standards for data analysis and programming tools and techniques, advises on selection of appropriate methods and their application, and ensures compliance.
• Manages the application of data analysis and data modelling techniques, based upon a detailed understanding of requirements, in order to establish, modify or maintain data structures and their associated components (entity descriptions, relationship descriptions, attribute definitions).
• Provides solutions and uses appropriate tools, including logical models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of system architectures.
• Prepares technical plans and provides advice on technical aspects of system development and integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security) are applied correctly.
• Determines criteria for assessing issues and opportunities and identifies relationships and linkages between different information sources. Anticipates potential problems and develops solutions needed to resolve them.
• Creates quality engineering procedures and user instructions to ensure a reusable process and tools approach. Defines and implements quality engineering process improvements and metrics.
• Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects or release level.
• Inputs into proof of concept exercises and assists sales with pre-sales collateral.

Essential

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• ISTQB Advanced

Desirable

• Additional course or certification in Quality Engineering
• Certification in NFT Tools such HP QTP, Selenium, HP LR etc.

• Has achieved trusted advisor status at a senior level with the client.
• Excellent client facing skills, as an expert in their field has experience of influencing client decision making and direction, takes time to establish underlying needs of client beyond those initially expressed.
• Applies insight, originality and a broad perspective to generate revolutionary technical solutions.
• Experience of introducing new concepts or strategies that significantly improve or revise the way business is done through to implementation.
• Excellent communication and presentations skills, maintains confidentiality, shares ideas and information, facilitates discussions and transfers knowledge to diverse audiences to achieve collective objectives.

Technical

• Strong theoretical knowledge in quality engineering methodologies, applying standards and specialist expertise to deliver.
• Extensive application/technology and tool/framework knowledge and has recognised expertise in several areas.
• Has an in-depth knowledge of specific specialisms, and can provide expert advice regarding their application.
• Experience in providing guidance to resolve issues, probing and initiating research to identify critical problems.
• Experience in advising clients and clearly communicating the benefits of implementing specific quality engineering solutions and identifying areas to add value.
• Specialisation in at least one tools such as GreenHat Tester/Rational Integration Tester, SOAP UI NG PRO, HP Service Virtualization manager etc.
• Specialisation in one of the Mobile Testing tools such as HP Mobile Centre, Perfecto Mobile or open similar open source solutions.
• Expertise in multiple test tools in any one test streams such as performance testing, data and test automation tools such as HP Performance Centre/LoadRunner, HP UFT/QTP, HP Service Test, Service Virtualize, CA LISA, CA GridTools Data Maker/ DataManager, JMeter, Neoload, Selenium, IBM Rational Integration Tester, Rational Robot, Borland SilkTest, TOSCA, Atlassian Jira, Jenkins, Selenium, Cucumber, Gherkin etc.

Management

• Acts as a role model for continuous learning and development and challenges others to reflect and learn.
• Experience of creating an environment that celebrates both successes and failures.
• Good self-management, Takes on high commitments and works to achieve results. Keeps momentum going over time despite setbacks, showing resilience in the face of challenges and looks for ways to beat previous standards.
• Experience in managing upwards with multiple people, gaining their trust quickly.

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and set backs
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo