Latest Jobs at Alfred & Victoria Associates

Job Summary

• We are looking for a an experienced software engineer with a proven track record delivering production quality software over, at least, the last five years.
• This isn't a "connect-the-dots" dev position - our engineers must be able to take loosely defined, complex ideas and run with them, working toward elegant results.
• You'll work with small teams to help define and, most importantly, build the backend for our products, including creating advanced AI-driven automation, big data systems, analytical models, and applications to tie it all together.

Key Role & Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership designing, developing, testing, deploying, and improving software.
• Write reliable, scalable, maintainable software primarily in Python.
• Working closely with Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Product Managers.
• Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
• Participate in code reviews and provide mentorship in a variety of software engineering areas to other team members.
• Contribute to product design and architecture planning of major systems and features.
• Help lead and scale our engineering organization by collaborating with leadership and stakeholders on a regular basis

Required Experience & Qualification

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
• At least 5 years of experience contributing significantly to the development of cloud-native software solutions
• Real-world experience using containerized build and deployment environments.
• Background in multiple testing methodologies, such as unit testing, integration testing, load testing, etc.
• Experience translating business and product requirements into technical specifications and engineering plans
• Designing APIs for web and mobile apps.
• Experience with client/server software architectures & networking, or micro service architectures.

Skills and competencies:

• Knowledge of agile software development and continuous integration / deployment principles
• Experience working with model-driven or other statistical software solutions a plus
• Knowledge of Cloud technologies (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
• As a self-starter, you desire to work in a fast-paced, high energy, team-oriented environment.
• Fantastic team player, communicator, and facilitator.
• Good communication skills and people-focused design mentality to help set up frameworks.
• Excellent quality experience, excellent communication skills, ability to work closely with project teams, dedication to the successful delivery within tight timelines, leveraging agile project management methodologies.
• Understanding of the technologies to be used.

Salary
Very Attractive.

Job Summary

• We are looking for a QA Tester to assist in the development testing of our projects.
• The QA Tester is responsible for the direct operational test coverage administration of their assigned projects.
• The position will oversee title test planning, organization, coverage, execution, staffing and communication.
• Attention to detail is a critical requirement of the role, as is a highly communicative, amicable and mature demeanor in supporting the development team.

Key Role & Responsibilities

• Executing manual test cases, for creating pre-go live test documentation, and for participating in the development of automated test scenarios.
• Develop, implement and assign master test plans and incorporate them into the software testing process.
• Primary ownership, administration and communication of all QA related project data and associated risks for all assigned projects.
• Primary ownerships in operational training, development, performance management and delegation to assigned Senior Test Analysts and Testers.
• Perform validation and exploratory development test coverage using different testing techniques on assigned projects.
• Perform technical analysis of underlying code and data to identify and resolve core causes of technical issues.
• Perform direct technical support of build pipeline and advanced tools to the development team.
• Perform issue reporting, research, analysis, confirmation and support resolution on assigned projects.
• Perform build deployment, scheduling and reporting.
• Collaborate work across disciplines within the development team to help drive project to completion.
• Maintain a strong knowledge of the project design and scheduling changes to support QA test effectiveness, focus and reporting.

Required Experience & Qualification

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Business Management or Computer Science or related field
• Minimum of 5 years in Senior Tester Analyst or equivalent position.
• Experience in quality assurance/control testing.
• Experience in advanced level testing techniques

Skills and Competencies:

• A desire to work in a fast-paced, high energy, team-oriented environment.
• Fantastic team player, communicator, and facilitator.
• Good communication skills and people-focused design mentality to help set up frameworks.
• Excellent quality experience, excellent communication skills, ability to work closely with project teams, dedication to the successful delivery within tight timelines, leveraging Agile project management methodologies.
• Understanding of the technologies to be used.

Salary
Very Attractive.

Job summary

• We are looking for a strong mobile engineer to help us build our application for our clients.
• As our ideal Mobile Engineer, you will be comfortable stepping into a fast-paced environment with agile sprints, peer reviews, and in-house design and QA teams supporting the projects.
• You will work as a contributor on a tightly knit team focused on developing highly functional software solutions for our users.
• As a Mobile Engineer, you will work with designers, developers, and product managers to build innovative applications addressing real-world problems.
• We’re looking for a Mobile Engineer that enjoys the challenge of solving hard problems on small devices with relatively low computing power.

Key Role & Responsibilities

• Developing mobile applications for iPhone and/or Android [as well as server-side APIs].
• Writing coherent, organized code. The ideal candidates must be comfortable working on a complicated code-base with high levels of abstraction.
• Working with Product Management to help define functional specifications for mobile Applications.
• Implementing multi-device application features as part of an interactive Agile development process.
• Researching, adopting and integrating new technologies.
• Innovating and improving existing products and mobile app features.
• Taking ownership of projects to ensure their successful completion with respect to deadlines
• Collaborating with Quality Assurance in developing a test plan to ensure successful deployment of updates
• Collaborating with our designers to build beautiful mobile UI components.
• Working with our backend engineers to push/pull data between our mobile app and servers.
• Helping architect our mobile apps on both Android and iOS using React Native.
• Helping to implement mobile testing framework.

Required Experience & Qualification

• BS in Computer Science or related technical degree.
• 2+ years of Android or iOS development.
• Successfully developed and deployed at least 1 native iOS or Android application that showcases a rich, interactive user interface and utilizes client-server communication.
• Comfortable with Xcode and completing projects in Objective-C without Interface Builder.
• Comfortable with Android Studio, Java, and the Android SDK.
• Experience developing for multiple platforms and screen sizes.
• Experience in any one or more of the following areas is a plus, but not required:
• Android automation using Espresso or equivalent.

Skills and competencies:

• Desire to grow professionally with a small, focused team in a fast-moving company.
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills.
• A desire to work in a fast-paced, high energy, team-oriented environment.
• Fantastic team player, communicator, and facilitator.
• Good communication skills and people-focused design mentality to help set up frameworks.

Salary
Very Attractive.