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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER – Leading Software Company – Arabic Nationals Only Job – First Resort Global Recruitment

November 28th, 2011 No comments

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER – Leading Software Company – Arabic Nationals Only Our client is a leading Jordanian software company that delivers award winning solutions and services. They provide custom software development, ready-made products, and…

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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER – Leading Software Company – Arabic Nationals Only

Our client is a leading Jordanian software company that delivers award winning solutions and services. They provide custom software development, ready-made products, and consultancy and outsourcing services

We are looking for a Business Development Manager to work with their growing team based in Jordan

OVERVIEW OF ROLE

The successful candidate will be responsible for the development and performance of all sales activities in assigned market. Staff, direct a sales team and provide leadership towards the achievement of maximum profitability and growth in line with company vision and values. Establish plans and strategies to expand the customer base in the marketing area and contribute to the development of training and educational programs for clients and Account Executives

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Financial

• Develop a business plan and sales strategy for the market that ensures attainment of company sales goals and profitability

• Provide timely accurate competitive pricing on all completed prospect applications submitted for pricing and approval while striving to maintain maximum profit margin

• Maintain accurate records of all pricings, sales and activity reports submitted by Account Executives

• Control expenses to meet budget guidelines

Customer

• Create and conduct proposal presentations and RFP responses

• Maintain contact with all clients in the market area to ensure high levels of client satisfaction

• Demonstrate ability to interact and cooperate with all company employees

Internal Process

• Prepare action plans by individuals as well as by team for effective search of sales leads and prospects

• Initiate and coordinate development of action plans to penetrate new markets

• Assist in the development and implementation of marketing plans as needed

• Adhere to all company policies, procedures and business ethics codes and ensure that they are communicated and implemented within the team

• Ensure that all Account Executives meet or exceed all activity standards for prospecting calls, appointments, presentations, proposals and closes

• Delegate authority and responsibility with accountability and follow-up

• Set examples for Account Executives in areas of personal character, commitment, organizational and selling skills and work habits

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

• Salary package will reflect experience levels and will depend on the candidate

• As a guide only: 30-32k SAR per month total package ($95-115k USD per annum)

• This will include a benefits package – Basic + Housing allowance + Mobile allowance + Transportation allowance (depending on experience)

• Extra benefits: Insurance covered based on the internal policy, tickets (once a year), commission based on the internal policy

• Tax free salary

Job Details

Date Posted: 2011-11-28
Job Location: Amman, Jordan
Job Role: Technology/IT
Company Industry: Business Support; Information Technology; Telecommunications

Preferred Candidate

Career Level: Management
Gender: Male
Nationality: United Arab Emirates; Bahrain; Djibouti; Algeria; Egypt; Iraq; Jordan; Comoros; Kuwait; Lebanon; Libya; Morocco; Mauritania; Oman; Palestine; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; Sudan; Somalia; Syria; Tunisia; Yemen

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Test Manager – Jeddah – IBM Rational Suite – Banking Job – Deerfoot IT

November 27th, 2011 No comments

Test Manager – Banking – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – $86,000 + Company provided Accommodation. HP Quality Centre, QTP, Load Runner, ISEB. Our client who are a significant member…

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Test Manager – Banking – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – $86,000 + Company provided Accommodation.

HP Quality Centre, QTP, Load Runner, ISEB.

Our client who are a significant member of the Middle Eastern banking community have asked us to assist in the hire of a Test Manager.

Job Description

You will manage / lead a team of testing professionals in providing a broad range of test services and solutions, ensuring established standards are met and planned objectives are achieved.

Responsibilities include:

• Oversees test activities for projects with increasing degree of complexity within and/or across lines of business (Tier 1 or 2).

• Manages medium to large size teams of testing professionals (typically 5-10 people).

• Lead the testing team throughout the entire testing lifecycle, ensuring that test process, methodologies

and tools are applied appropriately and stakeholders are kept informed of progress and issues.

• Prioritize testing tasks based on goals and risks of projects and ensure testing milestones, activities

and tasks are completed as scheduled.

• Develop and manage a team of testing professionals through training, knowledge sharing, coaching

and conducting performance assessments of team members and clearly define objectives and accountabilities.

• Create testing strategies and plans using risk analysis methodologies and tools and that align with the

development approach/methodology selected for the project.

• Manage and support the team in creating reusable test assets for both manual and automated test scripts.

• Manage the defect process ensuring defects are documented, tracked and reported to facilitate timely fixes, including escalation of issues where appropriate.

• Report the status of test planning, defects and execution activities, including regular status updated to the project team using quality metrics.

• Ensure testing is conducted in accordance with established information security and information privacy policies and guidelines.

• Act as primary testing liaison with the business and coordinate business testing.

• Communicate and negotiate testing timelines, budget, staffing, scope and critical milestones.

• Manage relationships with project team members, third party vendors / service partners, release teams and client areas as appropriate.

• Foster an environment that encourages productivity, innovation, teamwork and a high level of professionalism.

• Assists with test execution when required to meet project timelines.

Job Requirements

Specific Educational Requirements/Accreditations:

• College diploma or university degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

• Accreditation in Certified Software Tester (CSTE) and Certified Manager of Software Testing

(CMST) or equivalent is an asset

Qualifications/Skills/Experience:

• Must have 2-4 years of job-related experience in test management/leadership.

• Strong knowledge of testing including risk-based testing, software development practices and

methodologies, version control and defect management practices.

• Testing experience with large, complex, highly integrated applications.

• Sound understanding and working knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC) and project

management life cycle (PMLC) methodologies.

• Experience working with third party service partners in both on and offshore models.

• Good project financials management skills (estimating, budget creation, tracking, forecasting).

• Ability to manage testing teams across multiple projects simultaneously.

• Thorough understanding of how to optimize test activities across projects in order to achieve

optimum use of test resources and execution cycles.

• Experience using HP Quality Centre and automation testing tools (QTP, Loadrunner, SOATEST, etc)

would be an asset.

Skills:

Mercury Testing Tools QC

Mercury Testing Tools QTP

PMLC

SDLC

Testing

Job Details

Date Posted: 2011-11-27
Job Location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Job Role: Technology/IT
Company Industry: Banking
Monthly Salary: US $7,000

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Career Level: Management

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Senior Software Test Engineer Job – EgyptNetwork S.A.E

September 25th, 2011 No comments

Responsibilities The primary responsibilities of Senior Software Test Engineer are: a) To validate the product meets the user requirements; b) To verify the product…

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Responsibilities

The primary responsibilities of Senior Software Test Engineer are:

a) To validate the product meets the user requirements;

b) To verify the product operates as designed;

c) To provide accurate estimates and reports of test progress;

d) Develop and execute automated test suites using commercial/ custom tools;

e) Perform other testing-related duties as required.

Duties

A. Technical

 Review requirements, specifications, user documentation, help files, and other project documentation to assure quality of the products and tests to be developed; i.e., perform manual static testing.

 Select and develop appropriate test automation tools, applying the latest techniques in test automation; e.g., data-driven testing.

 Use risk-driven techniques to develop, maintain, and execute automated test suites for various Software products; i.e., perform automated dynamic testing.

 Work with the Development team to capture and reuse automated Unit Test Cases, Test Stubs and Drivers, and other Development test objects.

 Participate in the Change Control Board to identify the quality implications of known bugs and the impact of proposed changes to product definition on the testing process.

 Work with the Release Engineering team to create and maintain an automated nightly build verification (“smoke”) test.

 Ensure proper version control and configuration management of all test objects developed and test environments used.

B. Issue/Bug Tracking and Reporting

 Research and document bug reports following company processes immediately upon discovery of a quality problem.

 Trace test cases and results back to specific quality risks.

 Assist the Lead Engineer/Test Manager in the creation of test project status reports and metrics (e.g., HP Quality Centre, Rational Quality Manager ).

C. Management and Supervisory

 Provide the Lead Engineer/Test Manager with accurate and precise estimates for assigned task duration, along with confidence levels and foreseeable dependencies.

 Assist the Lead Engineer/Test Manager in preparing high level test plans, budgets, and schedules.

 Provide technical guidance to junior-level test engineers and/or test technicians

D. Attitudes and Initiative

 Develop and maintain good professional working relationships, especially within the test team and with those who interact regularly with the test team.

 Focus on the important testing and project priorities as agreed-upon with the test manager/Lead Engineer.

 Effectively balance curiosity about tests, test results, and bugs with project constraints on budget and schedule.

 Exhibit a demeanour of professional pessimism; i.e., in a pleasant and non-confrontational fashion work with determination to find, document, and advocate the repair of bugs.

 Show initiative in setting and meeting goals within an environment of managed change.

 Understand the role of testing within the software development lifecycle and business-related project constraints, and effectively advocate for the best possible customer experience of product quality within those parameters.

Education:

Essential:

Four Years Bachelors degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Desirable:

Masters Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Job Details

Date Posted: 2011-09-25
Job Location: Cairo, Egypt
Job Role: Quality Control
Company Industry: Information Technology
Joining Date: 2011-11-01

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Career Level: Mid Career

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Web, Software, & Mobile Applications Developer Job – P-Group

September 9th, 2011 No comments

Required Experience: • Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent • Minimum 2 years experience in website development using PHP, AJAX, jQuery, HTML, CSS, Javascript and…

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Required Experience:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent

• Minimum 2 years experience in website development using PHP, AJAX, jQuery, HTML, CSS, Javascript and MySQL

• Minimum 1 year experience with C, C++, Java, J2EE/J2SE/J2ME, JSP, Web Services, Servlets, XML and XSLT

• Experience in at least one mobile platform ideally either iPhone, Android or Symbian

• A thorough understanding of the full software development lifecycle

• 1+ years experience developing web & software applications using object oriented development methodologies

Job Details

Date Posted: 2011-09-09
Job Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Job Role: Technology/IT
Company Industry: Telecommunications

Preferred Candidate

Career Level: Mid Career
Degree: Bachelor’s degree/higher diploma

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Smartphone Applications Development Manager Job – Waseela

September 2nd, 2011 No comments

This position will be in charge of building and leading the smartphone applications development department for the company’s wireless location based technology, the targeted platform is the Galaxy Tab and other equivalent Android/Windows…

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This position will be in charge of building and leading the smartphone applications development department for the company’s wireless location based technology, the targeted platform is the Galaxy Tab and other equivalent Android/Windows-Mobile based platforms. The main responsibilities are:

- Lead the Smartphone Applications Development team to design, develop and deploy innovative mobile applications and services for the location-based solutions and technologies offered by Waseela. 


- Utilize the latest mobile and web technologies combined with solid architectural and professional software development skills to take applications from the idea and requirements stage to field deployment stage. 


- Work with the business development team to come up with innovative applications to meet customer specific requirements and to create winning location-based applications.

The candidate will be responsible for the full technical development lifecycle of the mobile/smartphone applications. In addition to working as a senior developer, the candidate will also supervise and manage other in-house and outsourced developers.

Job Details

Date Posted: 2011-09-02
Job Location: Amman, Jordan
Job Role: Technology/IT
Company Industry: Information Technology; Telecommunications; Computer/Software
Joining Date: 2011-10-01

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Career Level: Management
Degree: Bachelor’s degree/higher diploma

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Project Manager Job – Futureware

August 17th, 2011 No comments

-7-8 years experience out of which must have 3-4 years in Project Management. – Should have hands on development background in .Net, SharePoint, and opensource technologies. -Manage Projects and lead development team for software development life cycle. -Manage day to day…

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-7-8 years experience out of which must have 3-4 years in Project Management.

- Should have hands on development background in .Net, SharePoint, and opensource technologies.

-Manage Projects and lead development team for software development life cycle.

-Manage day to day Project Management activities, resolve technical issues of projects and mentor team.

-Assign related task to complete the project on time and within budget.

-Discuss with Technical Manager any development issues and provide detail layout for project development.

-Update management regarding progress of development and make sure the development life cycle is on time.

-Review and write technical proposals.

-Define project task and make sure the development of projects meets the boundaries of Scope.

-Manage and assign task according to the competencies of developers.

-Manage Team of Lead and developers.

-Prepare weekly progress report for management.

-Conduct technical presentation to client related to project development and discuss any discrepancies.

-Involve in presales activities and interact with partner companies for writing proposals and conduct conference call with offshore partners to discuss proposal technical issues.

-Mentor offshore development team.

-Interview for new hire (offshore & onsite)

Job Details

Date Posted: 2011-08-17
Job Location: Khobar, Saudi Arabia
Job Role: Management
Company Industry: Information Technology

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Career Level: Mid Career

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Senior Software Developer Job

August 4th, 2011 No comments

Responsibilities: • Must be able to manage and guide software development team. • Support the program managers to achieve the project goals. • Shares responsibility for the system architecture/design. • Create and maintain technical documentation. • Designing implementation solutions…

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Responsibilities:

• Must be able to manage and guide software development team.

• Support the program managers to achieve the project goals.

• Shares responsibility for the system architecture/design.

• Create and maintain technical documentation.

• Designing implementation solutions and participate in implementation

• Exhibits confidence and an extensive knowledge of emerging industry practices when solving technical problems.

• Pushes creative thinking beyond the boundaries of existing industry practices.

• Generates enthusiasm among team members.

• Demonstrates the ability to cooperate with a variety of people and achieve results.

• Demonstrates commitment and understanding to client business needs

Job Details

Date Posted: 2011-08-04
Job Location: Egypt
Job Role: Technology/IT
Company Industry: Technical/Maintenance

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Career Level: Mid Career

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Senior Mobile Applications Developer/Team Lead Job – QU Wireless Innovations Center (QUWIC)

August 3rd, 2011 No comments

Responsibilities: – Work in the QUWIC Mobile Applications Development team to design, develop and deploy innovative mobile applications and services for the consumer and enterprise markets. These include native mobile applications or mobile web applications. – Utilize the latest mobile…

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Responsibilities:

- Work in the QUWIC Mobile Applications Development team to design, develop and deploy innovative mobile applications and services for the consumer and enterprise markets. These include native mobile applications or mobile web applications.

- Utilize the latest mobile and web technologies combined with solid architectural and professional software development skills to take applications from the idea and requirements stage to field deployment stage.

- Work with the QUWIC business development team to come up with innovative applications to meet customer specific requirements and to create winning consumer applications. The candidate will be responsible for the full technical development lifecycle of QUWIC’s mobile applications.

- In addition to working as a senior developer, the candidate will also provide technical program leadership and mentorship to other members of the mobile applications development team.

Job Details

Date Posted: 2011-08-03
Job Location: Doha, Qatar
Job Role: Technology/IT
Company Industry: Telecommunications

Preferred Candidate

Career Level: Mid Career
Degree: Bachelor’s degree/higher diploma

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Software Developer Job – Capital Executive Solutions

June 21st, 2011 No comments

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER: Our client, who is cutting edge US based technology firm that is a leader in Data Analytics is currently building a…

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Our client, who is cutting edge US based technology firm that is a leader in Data Analytics is currently building a team of software developers. We are looking for best of the best Software Developers that Saudi Arabia has to offer.

This role is located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and you will be working with a dynamic and bright global group of world class developers. You will have the opportunity to have ownership of various projects and liaise directly with your clients. You will also have the opportunity to learn the latest software development tools and expand on your existing software language knowledge

Responsibilities:

• Develop custom applications using C++, C#, Java.

• Design solutions for clients, working extensively with them to further the client’s business objectives or enhance their security requirements.

• Work with clients to understand their products and have a smooth integration in multiple diverse technology environments.

• Install, Configure and Demonstrate the product integration to client.

• You will be engaged in analyzing, designing, developing, and enhancing features applications as well as product extensions and improvements.

• Provide technical leadership on implementation projects and performs detailed technical tasks at client sites.

• Perform tasks which often include programming code specific to individual products, developing validation tests of data interfaces, and tailoring or configuring the software to meet customer requirements.

• Is responsible for advising and guiding customers in integrating software solutions with existing customer computer systems and, in selected engagements, actively participating in the integration of products by designing, coding, testing, debugging, and documenting interfacing software.

Additional Information

Industry: Computer/Software
Job Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Career Level: Mid Career
Employment Status: Full time
Date Posted: 2011-06-21

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Dot Net Developer Job – KnowledgeNet (Egypt)

June 12th, 2011 No comments

The candidate will be responsible for implementing, and troubleshooting software programs and applications. His main duties will focus on understanding design, coding, developing, and documenting software…

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The candidate will be responsible for implementing, and troubleshooting software programs and applications. His main duties will focus on understanding design, coding, developing, and documenting software specifications throughout the project life cycle. He will also contribute in the estimates of the project, the quality and timeliness of the deliverables and the project’s compliance to the organizational processes and standards

Duties & Responsibilities:-

• Follow up full software development cycle (analysis, design, implementation, testing, documentation)

• Understand and verify the functional and business Requirements of the software

• Ability to gather business requirements from appointed focal points

• Ability to write clear understandable technical documents

• Understand the software design strategies and method Model for the system structure and behavior

• Implement and maintain software applications using a variety of tools and solutions

• Involved in developing estimates for the project

• Periodically report project status to team leader.

• Communicate with Team Leader for any deficiencies or conflicts

• Acts as second level of support for production systems users.

• Transfer knowledge and know-how to other developers

• Ability to research new technologies, tools and solutions.

General Characteristics:-

• Presenting and Communicating Information

• Coping with Pressure and Setbacks

• Achieving Personal Work Goals and Objectives

• Working effectively with individuals and teams, clients and staff. Support others and shows respect.

• Learning and Researching

Additional Information

Industry: Information Technology
Job Location: Cairo, Egypt
Career Level: Mid Career
Employment Status: Full time
Date Posted: 2011-06-12

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