Software Development Team Leader

About QA: 

QA is one of the largest learning services organisations in the UK, developing skills and capabilities for everyone from apprentices to business leaders. Headquartered in London, with a nationwide network of state-of-the-art training centres, we deliver innovative and cutting-edge skills solutions to UK organisations. 

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Job Description

Contract type: QA Ltd Permanent

Location:  Leeds Office, hybrid working model  

Salary:  £75,000

Your Role:

You will work as part of the team to provide C#, MVC, ASP.Net, ASP.Net Core and SQL development services and support to the existing business solutions and technologies. Support the team as it transitions to Azure. Work with the team to ensure that core applications and strategies are aligned. Complete team leadership duties to a team of Software Developers.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Develop and maintain application and reporting systems/solutions
• Develop and maintain data maintenance, migration and interfacing routines
• Develop and maintain core database structures and technologies
• Undertake testing of system components
• Provide implementation and post implementation support
• Complete bug fixes and development enhancements
• Provide support for application systems and solutions ensuring that incidents are dealt with in an accurate and timely fashion
• Comply with and adhere to the documented quality standards and methods for development
• Gain an in-depth knowledge of our key business database, reporting and application systems
• Lead a team of supervisors – mentoring, coaching, track KPIs

Qualifications

• Experience in MVC C# Development
• Experience in ASP.Net C# Development
• Experience in ASP.Net Core C# Development
• Experience in REST APIs
• Experience in React Development
• Experience in Microsoft SQL development, SQL applications support or a similar role
• Hands on experience with MS SQL
• Knowledge of CICD Pipelines using Jenkins
• Knowledge of Terraform
• Knowledge of containerization with Docket and Kubernetes
• Knowledge in Azure App Service
• Knowledge in Azure Logic App

Additional Information

What We'll Do For You!

Down time:
Taking time for ourselves is so important these days, which is why we dedicate some of our benefits to support your health and wellbeing. These include: 27 days holiday each year, holiday buying scheme, Medicash plan, Gympass, Cycle to Work scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, and 2 days per year charity leave.  

How we’ll help with finance matters: 
In addition to pension, group income protection and life insurance, QA are offering you an annual pay review, access to our employee discounts benefit hub with hundreds of deals and savings on goods and experiences, season ticket loan, tech scheme and an employee referral scheme.  

Personal growth: 
Learning and opportunity is at the core of what we do – and that applies to you too!  

You’ll have the unique opportunity to develop your skills on our QA authored courses in the latest tech (you’ll get 3 training days/year to do this). You can also delve deep into our world-class digital learning content from on a variety of tech and business topics.   

Our people: 
We are an equal opportunity employer, focused on promoting a welcoming and inclusive environment. We embrace diversity, welcome applications from all candidates and aim to support the career growth of everyone. This means no matter what your gender, age, ethnicity, beliefs, or sexual preference, or if you are disabled or a career, we welcome you and the alternative perspectives you bring to our diverse family. We’re proud of the progress we’ve achieved over the last few years to build an inclusive culture and celebrate our diversity – our rankings on The Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers List are a testament to this.  

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. All applicants with a disability who fulfil the role criteria will be progressed to the next stage of the process. Please let us know what reasonable adjustment, if any, you require.  

If this is what you’re looking for, here are the next steps:  

Hit the apply button and register on our QA website to fill out our quick and easy application form: