Applications Developer 4

Job Description

Analyze, design develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for commercial or end user applications. Writes code, completes programming and performs testing and debugging of applications. As a member of the software engineering division, you will analyze and integrate external customer specifications. Specify, design and implement modest changes to existing software architecture. Build new products and development tools. Build and execute unit tests and unit test plans. Review integration and regression test plans created by QA. Communicate with QA and porting engineering to discuss major changes to functionality. Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 7 -10 years of software engineering or related experience. Work: 1. Individual contributor and work towards highest quality and timely delivery. 2. Well-versed with SD process, procedures, and practices and contribution for continuous improvement of the process and procedures and operational excellence. 3. Showing excellence in communication, influencing skills, and provide solutions independently to customers (customers can be internal and external to the organization) on incidents/resolutions. 4. Work independently on the issues assigned and make independent decisions on QA observations, deciding on the scope with the analysts, etc. 5. Showing responsibility for maintaining backlog, team target, and individual target. 6. Keeping a close watch on the reworks and regressions and continuously improving and showing good results. Based on the analysis be able to guide product enhancements for future releases 7. Must be able to be the code reviewer for incidents in the area of expertise. 8. Should be able to contribute on ND (if required/opportunity provided) and get involved in the design and provide value additions to the product/feature getting designed and developed. 9. Should be able to independently write technical design documents. Also should be able to review and provide constructive feedback to technical design documents written by others 10. Should be the knowledge champion in the area of expertise by conducting knowledge sharing sessions, creating training material, etc. Role: 1. Helping other developers for solving complicated issues (Both technical and functional). 2. Establishing a good working relationship with onsite leads/managers for the respective products. 3. Working towards building teamwork and thereby minimizing attrition in the team. 4. Working towards minimizing reworks and regressions at the team level. Getting into the root cause of reworks and regressions in their focus area in the product and work with the team to minimize reworks and regressions in those areas. Provide and implement changes to product and process as a result of it 5. Internal Reviewer or Peer reviewer and provide approach, direction for fix (if required). 6. Specific responsibilities like Bundle Packaging (if opportunity provided to take up). 7. Additional Responsibilities: Clearcase, Release notes, Staging, Audit activities (if opportunity provided to take up). 8. Assignments and follow-up of work (if required, based on need basis). Knowledge / Expertise : 1. Decision-making on product/areas in all SD releases (Both Technical and Functional). 2. Ownership of a certain area(s) in the product across releases. Area expert within a product if the product is big OR a product expert for smaller scoped products 3. Should possess intermediate and above skill in the focus area in the product and should be able to successfully demonstrate the knowledge gained over a period of time. 4. Should constantly look for expanding the skill sets on different areas in the product and would be able to use it when demands in other areas of work. 5. Have a good knowledge of other SCM products and understanding detail the interaction workflows between the product expert area and the other SCM products 6. Work on customer-reported cases and guide the analysts / GSCs on making product decisions. 7. Ability to talk to customers (if required) and convincingly explain the problems/issues at hand with recommended solutions