Monthly Archives: November 2021

AberForward – Software Testing Assistant – Work Experience

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The Law and Criminology Department’s project Veterans Legal Link is seeking to hire a Software Testing Assistant through the AberForward Scheme. This is an opportunity for one of your students to gain valuable work experience.

If you would be kind enough to send this out to the students in your department it would be much appreciated. I have included a description of the role below. If any of your students would like to apply for the role or have questions about the AberForward scheme they can contact Alex Baldwin [alb128] with questions or request and application form from Profiad Gwaith / Work Experience [ymlstaff@aber.ac.uk] and send the email for the attention (FOA) Gwen.

Software Testing Assistant

Your role will be to test the security and accessibility of our online portal software.

Duties will include penetration testing, QA testing, and systems administration. The role will primarily involve trying to break our system to test for security vulnerabilities and logic errors. Additional responsibilities will include testing the accessibility of the web portal.

The portal is being developed on the LAMP stack, so a strong applicant would have requisite knowledge of Linux, Apache, MariaDB, and PHP. JavaScript and HTML knowledge would also be useful for the role.

This position is avaliable to 2nd year and above Computer Science students or students who can demonstrate a strong ability for programming. Placement duration is 146 hours. A part time position would be 15 hours a week for 10 weeks. A full-time option is also avaliable. The position would be fully remote.

Manufacturing IT Placement Student – Cummins

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Currently, I am on my Industrial Year placement at Cummins Inc. within the Cummins Business Services (CBS) branch.

I am employed as a Manufacturing IT Placement Student. This role is dynamic and mainly surrounds systems and maintenance rather than software development.
I support the manufacturing systems on site at Huddersfield and have exposure to sites across the EMEA region, even hosting regular meetings with sites in Russia.

Cummins are currently hiring for a variety of positions starting July 2022, suitable for undergraduate students looking for an Industrial Year placement. These cover a variety of different subjects, but there are several computing and IT placements available to view on their careers website: https://cummins-uk.jobs & information at https://www.cummins.com/careers/working-at-cummins
These positions are located in Darlington, Daventry, and Huddersfield; with opportunities for international travel available. As part of my re-location to Huddersfield, Cummins paid for a weeks trip, even providing me a corporate card and hire car!

My position for the 2022 hiring run is now live on the job site at https://cummins-uk.jobs/darlington-gbr/cbs-it-manufacturing-it-placement-student/C644CD3AF09846A49B01668C6885994C/job/
This is the perfect role for anyone who is does not like programming too much, but thoroughly enjoys systems and network administration.
Currently, only a limited number of people have applied for the placement, so I would recommend applying to present a good first impression.