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As Account Manager, I work in close collaboration with the IT departments of various European Institutions. My role consists mainly in supporting our clients by understanding their IT challenges, translating them into concrete requirements and, with the intervention of our technical consultants, contributing in the concretization of the projects. What I really enjoy in my job is the versatility of its aspects and responsibilities, going from Business to IT passing from HR and team management and this, in a high level, multicultural, institutional environment.

As part of testing team my job is to ensure the development of good quality software product and make an on-time delivery to the client. As a team we validate the product from all the aspects, usability, performance and security using the latest tools available in the market, because we think that testing is the backbone of a software product. Working in a scrum based software development cycle gives us the edge to be more client oriented. So if you have an edge to think out of the box and explore the world of Software Testing then come and be a part of our Quality Delivery team.

As a Delivery Manager, I run Fixed Price and Times & Means projects, both outsourced and at client side. The top goal is reaching client satisfaction by delivering high quality work in the agreed timeframe and budget. Each customer and project is a new, interesting challenge and establishing an optimal team is a straightforward task given the highly skilled and motivated people working at Arηs. Modern project management and team leading makes the project s progress transparent to the whole team. Each member of the team can take his share of responsibility and autonomy in the daily work. During team meetings, project decisions are not only communicated but openly discussed and a decision is taken after everybody had a chance to put forward his arguments. If this is the work environment you prefer, Arηs is the place to be.

As a former freelancer, I expect to be different and bring new challenges every day. If I had to sum up my arrival at Arηs, let’s just say we get straight down to business. While waiting to join my customer, the European Investment Bank, my first few weeks after starting work as a BI consultant were spent responding to calls for tenders by designing and writing solutions for them.

Subsequent tasks enabled me to test my knowledge of Business Intelligence and put it to work, while receiving support from in-house teams.

In my opinion, boldness, initiative and risk-taking are values that benefit Arηs, if they allow different teams to contribute certain skills to current issues.