Duties & accountabilities

• Ownership of the implementation (estimation, breakdown of tasks) for business functional specifications through the full software development lifecycle.
• Ownership of maintenance and support issues as they come up during the project lifecycle pre and post go-live. Provide technical assistance to other teams – support, QA, business analysis.
• Ability to work with remote team in a geographically distributed development model.
• Evaluate, apply & adoption of new technologies and tools within the Development team and across the organization to provide productivity, efficiency and scalability benefits.
• Collaborate and share technical and business knowledge to members of the Development and wider organization.
• Agent of constant improvement – within development and across organization.

What You Need to Get the Job Done

Education and experience

B.A/ M.A/degree in an IT/ Computer Science or related course is a prerequisite

Strong inter-personal skills required. Ability to multitask and prioritize work

Personal impact

• Working knowledge and/or familiarity of JavaScript, ASP.NET frameworks, HTML, Front and Back-End Web Development, and working with and development of API’s/
• Demonstrates ability to implement new web service clients (bottom-up and top-down approaches) and compose/use other web services.
• Diagnosis skills & knowledge of refactoring techniques is an added advantage.
• Tooling/Testing
• Knowledge of Unit testing using JUNIT, TestNG, Cactus or mock objects
• Working knowledge of branching and code management
• Demonstrates ability to use an IDE.
• Knowledge of Agile development methodology
• Aware of Test-Driven Development & Continuous Integration

Communication

Proven communication skills, problem-solving skills, and knowledge of development best practices are critical to successful performance in this role

Teamwork

Ability to collaborate in a team environment. Experience in Agile development methodology is preferred.