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Attention skilled IT Business Analyst’s! Our direct client located on Mercer Island, WA has a need to add you to their very large implementation project. This potentially is a very long-term contract. The client offers a pleasant work atmosphere that also includes free parking.

Job Summary:

• Serves as a liaison between the Business and IT to provide solution to their business needs; Understands customers’ objectives, processes, and products as well as the business systems capabilities; Performs impact analysis of making changes to application systems and supports development of effort/cost estimates; Develops and documents functional specifications; Supports application testing, implementation, and training activities Essential Job Functions:
• Performs impact analysis of application changes across various components, holding an end-to-end view of the system Defines project scope; Develops functional specifications; Prepares Preliminary Systems Design document; Understands customers objectives, processes, and products in order to make educated recommendations; Acts as liaison between Business and IT, as assigned Supports the Application Subject Matter Experts in development of estimates / validation of suppliers’ estimates; Supports application testing, implementation, and training activities; Performs quality review checks on project deliverables.

Education:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent

Experience Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in analysis or a technical development role.
• Experienced with requirement gathering.
• Application system analysis experience.
• Writing functional specifications.
• Application testing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to provide information in effectively and passively participate in team meetings.
• Understands routine business conversations and can convey information in letter format with few errors.

Our client, a Seattle-based start-up, is looking for a senior-level mobile engineer.  Do you have an overriding passion for solving complex tech problems in interactive mobile, user-level applications, and/or real-time location-based services?  If so, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Responsibilities for this position will include:

• Ownership of our client’s flagship Android development pipeline for existing and new products
• Work with and improve the existing mobile API platform engine
• Build and extend on the core location-tracking flagship platform
• Prototype and develop vertical products that leverage our client’s core real-time location-tracking functionality
• The team is driven to go the extra mile to get the product right, make it better, and do what it takes to make a world-class experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experienced with with the Android platform and comfortable doing development anywhere in the client stack (from low-level platform interaction to cutting in new UI/UX flows).
• Active and demonstrable development work on the current Android platform, including the latest ICS versions.
• Development of mobile product experience with ability to provide references to shipped products in the Android Marketplace that represent your background.
• 6+ years’ experience in production-level software development.
• Thoroughly familiar with mobile and interactive web-based technologies (Javascript, RESTful APIs, HTML/CSS) .
• Strong understanding of client-server development in a mobile environment.
• Previous experience working in a start-up work culture is a bonus.
• Experienced working within a sprint Agile work environment.
• BS in Computer Science or related degree, or work history equivalent

Fresh Consulting is an growing IT consulting firm located in Bellevue, WA that focuses on leveraging technology to deliver services and business results to our clients. Fresh offers a collaborative team of consultants that deliver results for clients ranging from enterprise-sized firms to start-ups. With operations in three countries and clients around the globe Fresh Consulting delivers solutions across multiple verticals and technology platforms.

Are you a talented Web Developer with Fresh ideas?  If so, we are looking to add a front-end Web Developer with strong UI / UX experience to join the team.  At Fresh Consulting you will experience a dynamic work environment with a talented team of IT professionals, free parking and excellent benefits. 

Core Responsibilities

• Produce web design UI for client / internal projects
• Convert UI designs into HTML, CSS and Javascript / jQuery
• Test compatibility and consistency: cross-browser, cross-platform,      and cross-device
• Consult on UI / UX with strong working knowledge
• Create new or modify existing WordPress themes
• Handle multiple client and internal projects at the same time 

Required Skills

• Strong UI design skill and understanding of usability
• Strong front-end language skills: HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript      (jQuery)
• Strong Adobe Suite skills: Photoshop and Illustrator
• Some experience with WordPress
• Some experience with front-end frameworks: WordPress, Twitter      Bootstrap, jQuery Mobile, jQuery UI, etc
• Some experience with web design technique: responsive web design,      parallax, infinite scroll, sticky navigation, jQuery / CSS animation, etc
• Some experience with back-end programming languages: e.g PHP
• Dedication to produce clean code that validates and follows      industry coding style standards
• Excellent organization and communication skills
• Work collaboratively with a small team 

Nice to haves

• Additional Adobe Suite skills: Fireworks, InDesign, Edge, etc
• Additional back-end programming languages: .NET, Ruby on Rails,      Python, etc
• Source Code Management experience: Git, SVN, etc
• Experience with Database: MySQL, MSSQL, etc

Excellent opportunity for a skilled Software Developer in Test (SDET) on a potentially long term project with our client located on Mercer Island, WA.

Job Summary:

• Defines the overall testing strategy and manages all related activities for application technical testing; participates in preparation of proposals and action plans and leads implementation of any new processes and tools, as required; develops quality criteria and measuring techniques, validates system acceptability and makes project stop/go recommendation to management; recovery actions and / or process changes, as necessary; oversees workflow and work distribution within testing area and ensures that service levels are met; interfaces with business and various IT groups involved in building the application and ensures satisfactory resolution of issues; provides in-depth training on testing processes, methods, and tools, as necessary.

Essential Job Functions:

• Develops, documents, executes, and maintains technical test Cases and test data
• Integration, System, Regression, Performance / Stress / Volume testing.
• Analyzes system and business requirements for testability
• Reports status of test plan execution through defect logs / defect tracking system
• Ensures that acceptance criteria are met
• Assists with resolution of environmental issues;
• Supports application development, implementation, and user training activities, as required
• Analyzes Test Results; assists with troubleshooting and Root Cause Analysis
• Validates system design
• Develops test plans, including test scenarios, test objectives, quality criteria and measurement techniques
• Supports the Configuration / Change Management groups, as necessary, to ensure smooth transition of code through the lifecycle
• Assists in training of other Testing Specialists
• Oversees workflow and work distribution within testing area; coordinates activities to meet service levels Validates acceptance criteria for testing phase; maintains knowledge of business unit processes / products to ensure application adheres to functional and quality requirements.
• Provides guidance on the usage of testing tool and development of test Scenario, test Objective, and test Case with other testers.
• Participates in depth analysis and development of new or revised standards, methodologies, and processes within Testing; develops training material, as necessary.
• Defines the overall testing strategy and manages all technical testing activities; participates in preparation of proposals, action plans, as required.
• Makes project stop/go recommendations to management; recommends recovery actions/process changes, as needed.
• Develops and documents quality criteria and measuring techniques, as required.
• Provides in-depth training on test tools, as necessary.
• May require some weekend availability due to software release schedule.

Education Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent or specific relevant experience

Experience Requirements:

• 3+ years working as a SDET
• 6+ years of experience in various testing capacities
• Experienced with Integration, System, Regression, Performance, Stress and Volume testing including writing test cases.
• Skilled with writing SQL and C# software application code.
• Previous experience utilizing testing tools along with manual testing.
• Experienced with TFS, Visual Studio, PowerShell and building frameworks.
• Must be capable of building technical tests from the ground up using Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010.
• Experienced with testing automation is essential and, knowledge of MSBuild is a plus.
• Optional knowledge in HP Quality center might be nice.
• This person is being contracted to organize the automated testing effort including writing code for automated tests against the 130 interfaces being developed for our project.  They will be asked to produce test libraries to cover integration testing and provide some support for developers who are unfamiliar with automated testing to assist them in developing adequate unit tests.  Manual testing will be covered by Business analysts.
• Ideally SQL, Javascript, C#, Java, Web Services, WCF, Visual Studio 2010, Team Foundation Server 2010, Excel, Word, MSBuild Optional ACORD, Cordys,
• Outstanding written and spoken verbal skills in local language English.
• Comfortable actively participating in meetings and discussions and then providing an overview of information about own area of expertise.  This includes an ability to participate in and facilitate discussions with complex content. Composes reports with almost no grammatical errors.
• Ability to work after hours and/or weekend hours if needed to support software release schedules.