Career opportunities
SQS has immediate vacancies to join our ever growing consultancy. We offer the opportunity to work on large high profile projects in the finance, banking, retail, telecoms, insurance, pension and energy sectors.
We can offer a career working on high profile projects alongside highly skilled, passionate and enthusiastic fellow Testers. Within our high quality customer base are Blue Chip organisations, including five of the top 10 FTSE 100 companies.
Training & Development
SQS recognises the importance of nurturing consultants’ talent and enabling them to progress, providing and encouraging training to gain industry recognised qualifications such as ISEB, PRINCE2 and HP Software's Accredited Systems Engineer.
The development of each and every individual is key to the success of SQS. Each person has an individually planned and implemented career path. This enables employees to transfer easily and quickly into new areas of work, keeping interest level high and facilitating the learning of new skill sets. Six monthly Personal Growth Plan (PGP) meetings result in the mapping out of a career path with goals and milestones. This PGP ensures that the aspirations of all employees can be tracked and fulfiled.
Knowlege Sharing
To cultivate a knowledge sharing environment our consultants have formed SQS Innovation Groups and Business Interest Groups. These groups are open to all and exist to support the practical implementation of QA & testing methodology in the organisation, and to foster communities of expertise and interest within the broad categories of our service offerings.
SQS also runs testing specific seminars and events designed to keep you up-todate with the latest industry trends and company activities.
Aside from comprehensive professional support we also hold regular social occasions, including seminars and off-site team building events.
Portrait Consultant Alexander König
I have been working as a consultant for SQS in Germany since October 2006. Before I started at SQS I had been developing software and managing software projects for five years after graduating from the Academy for Data Processing in Böblingen, Germany, as a certified computer scientist. In parallel, I also completed my degree in business management.
Thus, I had already gained a good deal of experience in the entire software development process, but I wanted to further my career. With SQS I found a company which was not only large enough to offer new perspectives, but which has already given me the opportunity to work in numerous interesting projects, especially in the automotive industry.
For these projects my knowledge on programming languages like Visual Basic, C++, or Java and on data bases, as well as my experience with quality management standards and methods like the v-model or Software-Life-Cycle are very useful since they help me understand the challenges and the developers’ tasks and responses.
I particularly enjoyed taking part in a project for a well-known German car maker who we supported in defect management. There, I was given an insight into how this large group works and also got an idea of the new technologies used in the automotive industry. Another highlight was a project for a company producing headlights for vehicles. We helped to improve software processes, taking into account the various factors influencing the shaping of business processes. Reacting to these factors, like the management’s demands on cost efficiency, is always very demanding. At the same time it is challenges like these which make my job extremely fascinating. I also appreciate how much responsibility I am given on my projects, where I can introduce my own ideas into my work every day.
For these reasons I really enjoy working for SQS. On top of this, the company culture also appeals to me. I like the fact that I can exchange information with my colleagues and also with the management directly. The atmosphere in our offices is very cooperative and is intensified by the internal meetings we have on a regular basis. They are always great occasions for receiving new information and meeting colleagues from other projects.
My plans for the future at SQS are quite clear: I would like to become a senior consultant and then work my way up to become a delivery manager, dealing directly with the clients and managing entire projects.
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