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New vacancy: Junior Technical Author/API Documentation Writer, City of London, £28K DOE

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This is an opportunity to join a technical writing team within a fast-growing, independent software company. Our client develops Web-based financial trading software for the world’s largest financial institutions. They have an immediate vacancy for a Junior Technical Author/API Documentation Writer with a passion for technical communication.

You will developing end-user documentation for a range of products, producing user manuals, online Help and API documentation.

You need to have one years experience working in an IT environment, and some experience of writing technical documentation. You also need to be able to demonstrate you have excellent verbal and written communication skills, and outstanding attention to detail.

You will have:

  • experience of writing technical documentation from scratch
  • familiarity with Agile development approaches
  • some knowledge of Java, C, C# or C++
  • an understanding of Web application development tools and methods: HTML, DOM, CSS

More information: #4134 Junior Technical Author/API Documentation Writer, City of London, £28K DOE

New job vacancy: #4133 Technical Author, City of London, £32K-£37K DOE

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This is an opportunity to join a technical writing team within a fast-growing, independent software company. Our client develops Web-based financial trading software for the world’s largest financial institutions. They have an immediate vacancy for a Technical Author with a passion for technical communication.

You will developing end-user documentation for a range of products, producing user manuals, online help and API documentation.

See #4133 Technical Author, City of London, £32K-£37K DOE

Vacancy: #4127 Contract Technical Author, Manchester, £25/hr, 6 months

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This is an opportunity to join a friendly team of authors, working for a large and progressive company. Our client needs a technical writer to join its team of writers who can write user guides, Help files and workbooks for scientific instruments.

You’ll need to have at least 2 year’s experience in technical writing and, ideally, a science (esp. chemistry) background. It would help if you have some experience writing standard operating procedures in a regulated environment.

You need to be skilled in using:

  • Authoring tools such as Madcap Flare, RoboHelp, FrameMaker or Adobe Acrobat.
  • Graphics tools such as Corel Photo-Paint, CorelDraw or PaintShop Pro.

You also need to be experienced in user-centred design writing techniques, such as user personas and task-based writing

You’ll be working on-site, at the client’s offices in South Manchester.

To apply, please email us a copy of your CV.

Vacancy – #4120 Technical Author, Gloucestershire. £30K-£35K

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Our client is looking to recruit a permanent Technical Author to join its team of writers. You’ll be documenting high-tech engineering equipment, developing operations and maintenance guides (and some training courseware).

You need to have experience of authoring in a single source environment, although they will also consider a junior Technical Author, whom they would train up.  You also need to be able to create 2D and 3D graphical information. Ideally, you will have a degree, and you must have some technical authoring experience.

The client offers excellent staff benefits, places an emphasis on staff development, and there is the opportunity for some travel for work overseas.

See #4120 Technical Author, Gloucestershire. £30K-£35K

Testpartners are looking for expert software testers (permanent or contract)

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Our friends, Testpartners Ltd are looking for exceptional applicants for a couple of test positions.

Suitable applicants are likely to have degree-level education, supervisory or managerial experience and at least 5 years experience of exploratory and automated testing of web-based applications. The work will be done in their office in Central London.

The job description is at http://www.testpartners.co.uk/exploratory_tester_2.htm