We are currently looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer for a one year contract.
Mission :
You will participate in the creation and execution of functional test cases. You will be responsible for testing the newly added functionalities and validate the test results against the functional requirements as well as continuously and systematically checking for regression. As a member of the Quality Assurance team your work lies to a great extent in the acceptance testing domain. Target is to iron out any bug and improve the stability, reliability and functionality of the finished product with all its dependencies and links. For this job you work closely with the Quality Assurance Team, Project Team and Business Specialists.
Responsibilities :

• Creation, execution and maintenance of manual test cases
• Reporting of the defects and clearly communicating the issues
• Raising any risks that they foresee in the validation or verification processes on time
• Identify gaps in the functional requirement documents and ensure documentation is on par with functional requirements
• Become a Subject Matter Expert in the product you are testing
• Keep a critical eye on the product and come up with suggestions as a user even if it's not mentioned in the requirements
• Work efficiently in lean agile teams
• Be comfortable in working in short time boxed sprints, pair programming, daily stand-ups, test-driven development.

Requirements

• At least two years of experience in structured testing of software
• Experience in requirement analysis
• Dutch/French + English

Technical Skills

• Knowledge of structured testing methodologies, testing techniques, testing strategies, test tools and methodologies
• Ability to compose test documentation (FTT trees, test procedures, test cases, checklists, etc.) and executing test cases and test procedures
• Ability to do acceptance testing
• Has relevant IT knowledge ; where knowledge of JIRA is a plus
• Ability to write reports and to communicate test results

Personal Skills/Attitude

• Flexibility
• Stress resistant
• Solution focused
• Quality driven, "testing" attitude
• Initiative & Accuracy
• Good oral communication skills and excellent written communication skills
• Diplomatic
• Thoroughness and attention to details
• Commitment to excellence
• Ability to work independently, self-organized

Salesforce Solution Architect
Req ID #: 87032
Location:
Wilmington, MA, US, 01887Budapest, HUWarsaw, PL, 00-124Sant Cugat del Vallès, B, ES, 08174MADRID, M, ES, 28029Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, BE, 1030MILANO, Milan, IT, 20122Port Seton, GB, EH32 0TDTranent, GB, EH33 2NEParis, FRNorwich, CT, US, 06360Hatfield, GB, AL10 9SNHarlow, GB, CM19 5TRDublin, IE, D09Cologne, NW, DE, 51105Amsterdam, NL, 1077 ZXUSCambridge, GB, CB23 6DP
At Charles River, we are passionate about improving the quality of people’s lives. When you join our global family, you will help create healthier lives for millions of patients and their families.
Charles River employees are innovative thinkers, who are dedicated to continuous learning and improvement. We will empower you with the resources you need to grow and develop in your career.
As a Charles River employee, you will be part of an industry-leading, customer-focused company at the forefront of drug development. Your skills will play a key role in bringing life-saving therapies to market faster through simpler, quicker, and more digitalized processes. Whether you are in lab operations, finance, IT, sales, or another area, when you work at Charles River, you will be the difference every day for patients across the globe.
Job Summary
The Principal Solution Architect is responsible for collaborating with technology and business stakeholders to develop a scalable SalesForce technical architecture vision and strategy that enables business strategy. Partner with the business and IT leaders to ensure the architecture roadmap continually aligns with business objectives. Working closely with other IT service areas, deliver solutions that are efficient, high quality and at the best possible cost. Through excellence in delivery, help to achieve and maintain a high level of customer satisfaction.
Job Responsibilities
• Provide technical thought leadership for SalesForce platform • Ensure adherence to CRL standards and compliance with regulatory bodies are maintained (FDA, ISO, PCI, SOX, HIPPA, US, EU).• Develop SalesForce platform architecture vision and strategy that include technical roadmaps.• Design and ensure salesforce platform environment is scalable.• Identify the best solution to solve stated business problems and deliver solution options that satisfy business requirements; Including identification, analysis, selection and high-level design.• Create solution blueprints by consulting with the Customer and key IT Stakeholders.• Drive vendor selection by working with procurement and project team; Run proof of concepts as necessary.• Participate in resolving cross-functional and cross-system design issues.• Conduct requirement gathering workshops and fit gap analysis.• Assist in creating architecture standards, related processes and templates and an EA practice in CRL.• Stay current on latest technology advances particularly with SalesForce• Participate in continuous improvement of the Architecture practice.• Collaborate with peers across IT organization and business units to ensure hand-offs are well understood.• Adhere to pertinent regulatory requirements and to company policies, practices and procedures.• Perform all other related duties as assigned.
• Contribute to building a high-performance team.
Job Qualifications
Education: Bachelor’s degree (B.A./B.S.) or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.Experience: Minimum of 10 years working as a SalesForce Solution Architect.Have experience with multiple salesforce implementationsSolid understanding and demonstrated ability for the following:• Demonstrated leadership and influencing skills at all levels• Effectively communicate and make technical information consumable to large, multi-national audiences• Have proven emotional intelligence (EQ) and relationship building skills• Be able to conceptualize and develop impartial alternative solution approaches, articulating the benefits and tradeoffs of each.• Customer consulting skills• Experience building Technology roadmaps• Experience working in an Agile/ product and platform centric operating model
About Corporate Functions
The Corporate Functions provide operational support across Charles River in areas such as Human Resources, Finance, IT, Legal, Sales, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Corporate Development. They partner with their colleagues across the company to develop and drive strategies and to set global standards. The functions are essential to providing a bridge between strategic vision and operational readiness, to ensure ongoing functional innovation and capability improvement.
About Charles River
Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.
With over 17,000 employees within 90 facilities in 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world. And in 2019, revenue increased to $2.62 billion.
At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly supported the development of ~85% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2019.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer - M/F/Disabled/Vet.
If you are interested in applying to Charles River Laboratories and need special assistance or an accommodation due to a disability to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the resume submission process, please contact a member of our Human Resources team by sending an e-mail message to crrecruitment_US@crl.com. This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
For more information, please visit www.criver.com.
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Director, Cloud and End User Technology
Req ID #: 83662
Location:
Wilmington, MA, US, 01887Sant Cugat del Vallès, B, ES, 08174Reno, NV, US, 89511Spencerville, OH, US, 45887Copenhagen, DKPort Seton, GB, EH32 0TDCambridge, GB, CB23 6DPBudapest, HUHorsham, PA, US, 19044Saffron Walden, GB, CB10 1XLCharleston, SC, US, 29407Harlow, GB, CM19 5TRRaleigh, NC, US, 27610Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, BE, 1030Dublin, IE, D09Tranent, GB, EH33 2NEAmsterdam, NL, 1077 ZXMADRID, M, ES, 28029Paris, FRMattawan, MI, US, 49071
At Charles River, we are passionate about improving the quality of people’s lives. When you join our global family, you will help create healthier lives for millions of patients and their families.
Charles River employees are innovative thinkers, who are dedicated to continuous learning and improvement. We will empower you with the resources you need to grow and develop in your career.
As a Charles River employee, you will be part of an industry-leading, customer-focused company at the forefront of drug development. Your skills will play a key role in bringing life-saving therapies to market faster through simpler, quicker, and more digitalized processes. Whether you are in lab operations, finance, IT, sales, or another area, when you work at Charles River, you will be the difference every day for patients across the globe.
Job Summary
For nearly 70 years, Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family, you will have a significant impact on the health and wellbeing of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences, finance, IT, sales or another area, your skills will play an important role in the work we perform. In return, we’ll help you build a career that you can feel passionate about.
The CRL IT organization is looking for an energetic professional to manage, lead and own the hybrid cloud and end user computing infrastructure (product) within the Global Infrastructure Services team. As a manager; responsible for building, coaching and developing a high performing engineering team. As a product owner; responsible for hybrid cloud and end user computing infrastructure services. The Product Manager/Owner will lead and own the delivery of effective end to end hybrid cloud and end user infrastructure technology solutions.
Through excellence in delivery, he/she will help to achieve and maintain a high level of employee engagement, customer satisfaction and team productivity.
Role Accountabilities:• Accountable for owning hybrid cloud and end user infrastructure end to end including management, costing, and continuous improvement opportunities.• Accountable for leading a high performing team that delivers consumable, standardized hybrid cloud and end user infrastructure services and solutions (resilient, high quality, highly automated and up-to-date)• Accountable for collaborating and consulting with other IT practices to support technical solution development and deployment• Accountable for working with external strategic partners to develop and deliver technical solutions
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: • Own the infrastructure product end to end.• Work with the infrastructure integrator to ensure that designs and blueprints incorporate best practices.• Approve all designs and blueprints that are to be incorporated in the owner’s product.• Ensure that the infrastructure product team is functional.• Manage the infrastructure product at the service level.• Deliver and manage value-added services based on an understanding of cost, risk, compliance and business value, while making informed decisions based on continuous measurement.• Identify, prioritize and implement product improvement opportunities.• Manage policies/design versions and track issues.• Coordinate infrastructure product release.• Responsible for overall infrastructure product definition.• Responsible for infrastructure product costing and financial models for infrastructure product offerings.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Required Qualifications:• Bachelor’s degree (B.A./B.S.) or equivalent in computer science, engineering, or related discipline; an equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for the specific education listed above.• Minimum of ten (10) years related experience in IT infrastructure, including cloud infrastructure design and implementation.• Minimum five (5) years of experience in IT management role.• Experience and understanding of Agile Methodologies • In depth knowledge of hybrid cloud infrastructure design and implementation • Strong knowledge and understanding of current Cloud Computing technologies such as Azure and AWS and cluster management tools like Kubernetes• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tooling• Strong communication skills for large, multi-national audiences. • Strong cross-functional leadership and collaboration skills. • Utility player – broad understanding of tools and technologies• Flexibility and willingness to learn new toolsets and solutions• Ability and willingness to coach and mentor engineers • Business acumen –understanding of customer value • Operational Performance – Understanding of and/or experience with Theory of Constraints (TOC).
About Corporate Functions The Corporate Functions provide operational support across Charles River in areas such as Human Resources, Finance, IT, Legal, Sales, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Corporate Development. They partner with their colleagues across the company to develop and drive strategies and to set global standards. The functions are essential to providing a bridge between strategic vision and operational readiness, to ensure ongoing functional innovation and capability improvement.
About Charles RiverCharles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.
With over 17,000 employees within 90 facilities in 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world. And in 2019, revenue increased to $2.62 billion.
At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly supported the development of ~85% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2019.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer - M/F/Disabled/Vet.
If you are interested in applying to Charles River Laboratories and need special assistance or an accommodation due to a disability to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the resume submission process, please contact a member of our Human Resources team by sending an e-mail message to crrecruitment_US@crl.com. This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
For more information, please visit www.criver.com.
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Job Description

Excellent Salary 

Corporate Benefits Package 

Relocation Assistance (if applicable)

Further information available from the Serco Europe Recruitment Team

Job Introduction

At Serco not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services.
We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world, we are innovators,committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.

Serco and Proud - Make a difference every day.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for an Application Architect, in an International Organisation, based in Brussels.

 

Main Responsibilities

• Analysis, design and implementation of components and modules of DGT’s workflow applicationsin JAVA code.
• Elaboration of integration scenarios of different information systems in a SOA.
• Adaptations to existing modules, development and re-factoring of Java code.
• Analysis of production issues and elaboration of specific solutions (Bug fixing).
• Technical analysis of change requests.
• Provision of studies, assessments, technical guidance and evaluations.
• Assistance in testing, evaluation and reporting.
• Elaboration of written documentation.
• Quality assurance of new modules/developments.
• Prototyping.

 

Successful Candidate

• Successful studies in an IT area with master’s level or 5 years of higher education. Remark: Where the minimum number of years of education is not fulfilled, 2 years of professional experience will be considered as equivalent for 1 year of study.
• Minimum 11 years of practical experience as an IT professional.
• Minimum 6 years of practical experience of Java Enterprise/JEE and relevant development frameworks, such as Vaadin 6, Vaadin 8, JSF, Java UI (AWT/Swing).
• Experience with Oracle Weblogic server, web technologies, web services, javascript, XML, Oracle databases and PL/SQL.
• Proven experience in architecture and design of mission-critical IT systems and professional Software Engineering in general.
• Knowledge of Service Oriented Architectures(SOA).
• Experience in the domain of language and translation applications would be an asset.
• Knowledge of the Commission’s IT environment would be an asset.
• Capability to work in a structured way and to communicate with users, other developers and support staff.
• Strong analytical skills. Ability to work under pressure and to deliver to tight deadlines.
• Ability to participate in multi-lingual meetings, good communication skills.
• Fluent in English.

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