5 work from home jobs being advertised NOW

If you’re looking to make some extra cash leading up to Christmas, or need to concentrate on your work/life balance, then a work from home job could fit the bill – so here are five vacancies available right now…

Software QA Engineer / Test Engineer

This job involves working for an award-winning software services company as a QA Engineer / Test Engineer to work remotely or be based in the office in the Midlands.

The job involves: maintaining automation scripts and framework, designing; validating and automating tests | participate in Agile meetings via Skype / Videophone if required | working with developers, BA / Business Analysts, Project Managers, Product Owners and stakeholders | writing automation tests with Selenium / Java | work closely with the team lead and other software managers.

Salary – £30,000 –  £41,000  per year

See more at Monster.co.uk

Senior Systems Administrator

This role involves maintenance of the company’s Infrastructure, resolving senior escalations and becoming a subject matter expert for all things technical. You will work as part of a senior team and will manage escalations in a timely matter, contributing strong knowledge and promoting best practice throughout the support team.

Based in Edinburgh, this offers  four days per week of home-based working.

Salary – £35,000 –  £40,000  per year

See more at Reed

Social media evaluator

Appen has continued to add social media work-from-home opportunities for daily social media users of all ages. Join our global family of independent contractors working from home as a Social Media Evaluator.

Appen’s Social Media Evaluators are rewarded for their ability to improve the relevancy of the newsfeed for a leading global social media client. Appen offers competitive pay and project prep sessions to ensure your success.

You’ll need to commit to work for at least 1-4 hours a day, 5-7 days a week. Once accepted for a project, you must meet consistent quality standards. Superior performance will make you eligible for additional social media projects.

Apply here

Marketing executive

A role for a self-motivated marketing individual with a background in either software or financial services, working in either an office in Godalming or from home, this market leading global client, with offices in the UK, Australia and New York, are rapidly expanding into the UK/EU market and are looking for a Marketing expert to join their team – pay up to £40,000

Reporting directly into the Global Sales & Marketing manager, you will be a hands on marketing professional, with experiencing delivering sales materials, managing their CRM database, conducting analysis and reporting, arranging events and creating engaging web content.

Salary – up to £40,000 per year

See more at Reed

Senior C# developer

Candidates must reside in the South of England; the role will be working remote/from home and candidates are expected to travel to Southampton or London when required.

Charge Point Services are searching for a Senior C# Developer that wants to share their passion for creating efficient and user friendly services and software systems using a variety of technologies and programming languages.

As the Senior C# Developer you will be responsible for designing, developing and testing high performance code, providing solutions to business problems, understand existing and legacy code, keeping up to date and aware of new software tools and frameworks, work within a team and report progress effectively.

Salary – £40,000 – £50,000 per year

See more at Monster

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