Richard Olver

Richard Olver

Senior Delivery Consultant
01212 694660
Richard Olver

Specialised in:
Sourcing and delivering top-tier talent across the technology sector, with expertise in recruitment for DevOps, Software, and Data roles. Richard has a strong focus on supporting clients in biotech, pharmaceutical, aerospace & defence, and research institutes.

Experience and background:
With nine years of recruitment experience, Richard has built a reputation for excellence in delivering bespoke solutions to meet clients’ needs. He has successfully worked with high-profile organisations such as Genomics England, AstraZeneca, Leonardo, and the Wellcome Sanger Group. Joining the Birmingham team as a Senior Delivery Consultant, Richard is committed to connecting exceptional talent with innovative companies while ensuring a seamless recruitment process for both candidates and clients.

You might be surprised to learn:
Outside of work, Richard is an avid Pokémon fan and has competed professionally. He’s also a keen traveller with an ambitious goal of visiting all 50 state capitals in the United States by the time he turns 50!

Jobs posted by Richard Olver

Posted

Integration & Test Engineer
Software Engineering
Ampthill, Bedfordshire, England
Market related
Permanent
Title: Integration & Test EngineerBusiness Area: Rotary and Mission SystemsVacancy Type: Permanent, 37.5 hoursLocation: GloucesterOur client provides systems engineering, software development, training solutions and complex program management for global security, civil and commercial markets.The mission is to be the world's leading global security and aerospace company. To achieve this mission, they draw on their core capabilities in advanced platforms and weapons, C4ISR, global sustainment, training and sensors.Are you passionate about integrating cutting-edge technologies while ensuring robust security measures? Omega are seeking talented individuals at all levels to join our dynamic team as an Integration & Test Engineer. You will be provided with meaningful work and education opportunities that will allow you to develop your skills and enhance your career, but equally important you can also enjoy a strong work life balance. To ensure this we offer a flexible work schedule and an incredible comprehensive benefits package to enable you to live a healthy fulfilling life in and outside of work.You'll play a pivotal role in integrating, testing and securing a range of systems and applications. You'll be at the forefront of driving innovation and safeguarding digital infrastructures. You'll need to have an understanding of DevSecOps principles and experience of working within a multi-disciplined team. Knowledge and understanding of core software tools, methods and frameworks to reliably integrate and deploy, integrate and test features into environments to ensure optimum outcomes to our customers.Key Responsibilities:- Plan, Develop and Execute software test and integration plans ensuring compliance with specification- Develop scripts and integrate automated testing frameworks within CI/CD pipelines and a wider ecosystem of tools- Debug and identify defects in the whole stack, from front-end to back-end databased and middleware- Integration and delivery of large and complex solutions into a wider system-of-systems- Deployment in Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud environments and potential constraintsRequired skills, qualifications and experience:- Demonstrable experience in the field of Test and Integration. The ability to work within an agile environment and delivering using Scrum and Sprints utilising tools such as Jira and Confluence to help planning and collaboration- Experience working with Agile and DevSecOps software delivery- Experience of Agile Development using SCRUM- Experience planning, developing and executing test plans- Experience in developing strategies supporting formal product sell off- Experience in automated testing in the software domain- Experience in developing GitLab CI/CD Pipelines- Experience with Commercial and Open Source automated testing frameworks- Experience working with Git, Atlassian suite, Jira, Confluence- Knowledge and automation of both functional and non-functional aspects of a system- Automated analysis and reporting of test results, identifying trends or anomalies overtime- Knowledge and experience in setup and development of testing environments and Blue Green deployment approach- Experience in integration and debugging complex software systems at scale- Qualifications or Certifications in one or more of the following: ISTQB Foundation, ISTQB Testing Specialism (Agile, Performance, Security, Manager or Analyst), ISTQI - Certified Agile Tester DesiredSkills:- Can support maturation of automated CI/CD software pipelines for Cloud deployments- Understanding of IaC and using this to deploy and integrate services on cloud- Hands on experience in using and integrating with AWS Services such as EC2, EKS, Fargate, IAM, S3, Lambda- Experience using the AWS SDK (Boto3) to automate integration tasks- Experience or understanding integrating hybrid-cloud application deployments- Understanding of CloudTrail to debug and diagnose integration issuesClearance to Start: DVOmega Resource Group is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.