Samantha Higgs
EXPERTISE
BIO
I am an enthusiastic developer with over three years of professional experience with a recent master’s degree in advanced cyber security at distinction from King’s College London. I also have a strong foundation in both backend and frontend technologies, I have contributed to a range of projects across diverse sectors, including broadcasting, HR services, and financial software.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Software Engineer
ITV
November 2019 - January 2020
• Contributed to a Microservice application called TalPay, which helps to pay contributors and viewers that are involved in ITV productions. • Technologies used: Java 11, Junit, Maven, Angular 6, Typescript, npm, Karma, Jasmine, Cucumber, Selenium, Docker. • Followed an agile scrum development methodology.
Junior Java Developer
Zellis (NGA HR)
September 2017 - October 2019
• Developed a modularised web application called ResourceLink. • Modules I helped to develop include: recruitment, timesheet adjustments, authorisations, payslip comparison and organisational charts. • Worked on backend functionality using: Java 8, Spring, Hibernate, Junit 4.11, Mockito and Hamcrest 1.3. • Also worked on frontend functionality using: JavaScript (ECMAScript6), AngularJS 1.6, Jasmine 3.2 and Karma 1.5. • Helped to develop and maintain automated tests, using Cucumber 1.2, Java 8 and Selenium 3.4. • Followed an agile scrum development methodology. • I communicated productively with a wide variety of internal teams; including other development teams, quality assurance and product management. Some members of quality assurance and development were located offshore.
Associate Software Engineer
SmartStream
October 2016 - May 2017
• Worked in a critical response team investigating and resolving high priority software bugs for a variety of financial software products used by major financial institutions. • Successfully helped to improve financial reconciliation software in response to customer and internal quality assurance teams' feedback. • I have developed using a variety of tools such as Java EE, JBoss, Maven, Subversion, SQL, Eclipse, JavaScript, JSON and HTML. • I communicated with a large variety of internal teams and customers while investigating, improving and resolving bugs for various software.
EDUCATION
MSc
King's College London, October 2024
Advanced Cyber Security
BSc (Hons)
University of the West of England, May 2015
Computer Science
Verified Full Stack Developer
3-5 years of experience
Preferred commitment: Full Time
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