Kennedys Hiring for Software Engineer at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India Full Time

Job Description

Kennedys Kognitive Computing is a software development business in India that provides software development services and technology innovation for the benefit of Kennedys’ clients and is not a branch office of Kennedys Law LLP in India. Kennedys Kognitive Computing provides software development services and technology innovation for the benefit of Kennedys’ insurer clients worldwide. Kennedys is a UK head quartered global premier insurance law firm with operations in circa 60 offices worldwide. Kennedys IQ is the multi award winning technology division of Kennedys, setup to create next generation products that combine legal expertise with technology for the benefit of our insurer clients. The intersection of lawtech and insurtech is one of the most exciting areas of technology work at the moment – join us to work with world leading Cognitive Decision Science Researchers, developers and legal / insurance experts to create machine intelligence products for the insurance companies of the future. We are focused on activities that includes rapid prototyping, application development, text analytics, machine learning and blockchain, accelerating the development of our award-winning innovations and the strategic desire to reduce legal spend for clients. Now is an exciting time to join the team; we are growing in numbers, ideas and products; if you’re looking to work on amazing projects, using cutting edge tools, with a great team of passionate developers in a vibrant and collaborative environment, then this is the job for you! We offer an advanced development environment with the opportunity to work on best of breed technologies and have secured significant R&D budget. This will ensure you continue to learn deep knowledge about the legal sector but also keep your technical skills up to date with the latest advances, including your own Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise license with access to Plural Sight, Microsoft toolkit and associated academies including Azure. The firm offers a generous package of employment benefits including flexible working, enjoyable office environment that is easy to get to with free hot drinks and a friendly atmosphere that genuinely inspires creativity/involvement and mutual respect to one another. Team Kennedys IQ team are responsible for the development of an the IQ Platform, anonline applicationdesigned to facilitate the insuranceclaims process using a combination of intelligent data capture,workflow augmented with legal expertise, as well asanalytics includingmachine learningand natural language processing. We aim to lead the market across the globe at the intersection of technology, insurance and law. Pipeline projects includeground breaking innovationwork where we lead consortia of leading data science practitioners, global insurers and world leadinguniversities workingalongside our own growing data science function to solve some of the biggest problems in the insurance industry today. The team is spread across many locations London, Chelmsford, Manchester and Kerala. This position will be based in Chelmsford with flexibility to work from other locations or home from time to time based on agreement with the development manager. Key Responsibilities

• Working under the direction of the firm’s Development Manager, and Project Managers as part of projects to develop and implement new applications, upgrades and changes to existing systems
• Reviewing and analysing software requirement specifications.
• Manual and Automation testing
• Executing test scripts and reviewing results.
• Performing appropriate pre-release testing
• Reporting and documenting technical issues.
• Preparation of test cases.
• Execution of tests.
• Preparation of test reports.
• Effectively collaborate with other team members.
• Assist development and support staff, sometimes out of hours, with application releases and system upgrades
• 4th line support, including diagnoses and resolution of database issues, faults and rectification

Required experience

• Working within a distributed development team (20+)
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Experience with task management software (Azure DevOps/JIRA/Pivotal tracker etc.)
• Git and DevOps repository management
• Testing and support of enterprise applications

About Kennedys Kognitive Computing Kennedys Kognitive Computing provides software development services and technology innovation for the benefit of Kennedys’ clients. Our team of IT experts is based in India, and is part of the wider Kennedys development team. We are focused on technologies such as rapid prototyping, application development, text analytics, machine learning and blockchain, accelerating the development of our award-winning innovations and the strategic desire to reduce legal spend for clients.