Job Description

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER IN TEST LOCATION: DALLAS/FTW  CONTRACT (CHANCE FOR HIRE)

TOP SKILLS:  Selenium / Cucumber Java 7/8 Python NICE TO HAVE:  SQL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Adhere to rules established to enforce test-driven/behavior-drive development, maintaining wiki pages, code style, and code group/peer review.
• Be a team player, someone who can communicate both orally and through our various written communication mechanisms.
• Be able to work under the supervision of a more senior engineer, completing tasks with the expected degree of quality in a timely fashion.
• Analyze requirements and technical specifications, and implement assigned development tasks using various web technologies.
• Develop, maintain, and debug cloud based micro-service APIs
• Maintain and extend existing on-premise software systems
• Be able to dig in and troubleshoot pre and post production issues.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• None

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or other technically related field
  • Equivalent experience and/or degrees in other technical fields will be evaluated and considered
• 5+ years of experience in a development position

Strong technical knowledge building mission critical/highly available service-oriented software

REQUIREMENTS AND GENERAL SKILLS:

• Works well with others and is a skilled communicator both written and oral; acts with professionalism both in person and when working on the phone with partners.
• Excellent time management skills, with the ability to prioritize and work under shifting deadlines with potentially ambiguous or nebulous requirements in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Experience working in an agile software development organization; Scrum and/or Kanban
• Willingness to learn new technologies - often very quickly
• Must have legal right to work in the U.S.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• More than 3 years of experience implementing automation test framework for mobile apps / web portals / APIs / e-2-e / integration tests. < open source / Selenium frameworks >.
• Exposure to varying Automation framework
• Direct experience working with CI/CD tools like Jenkins.
• Good Debugging skills for Automation scripts
• Expertise in Web application(UI) & Webservice(API)testing experience with Selenium Webdriver and Core Java.
• Experience with Python or Javascript/Node.js is a plus
• Strong technical knowledge building mission critical/highly available services using current generation toolkits such as Spring, Dropwizard, RESTEasy, or Node.JS
  • Developing and designing front end dynamic web applications using web frameworks such as AngularJS or ReactJS.
  • Developing and designing web services through APIs using REST, HTTP, JSON/JSONP, etc
  • Fluency in Java 7, basic understanding of Java 8
  • Strong technical knowledge of IP, HTTP, JSON and XML.
  • Strong understanding the principles of service-oriented software and large scale distributed systems.
  • Working knowledge of SQL-based or NoSQL databases using JDBC, JPA or similar frameworks
  • Experience building distributed scalable test automation frameworks with open source technologies
• Basic technical knowledge of cloud-based systems – covering infrastructure, platform and software as services
• Recent hands-on experience with Java, Spring / Spring Boot Frameworks, Node.js development, MicroServices, Serverless (AWS Lambda etc)
• Good working knowledge of the Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Observability & Traceability
• Code craftsmanship; rigor in high code quality, automated testing (JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber), and agile engineering best practices
  • Knowledge of modern software patterns and anti-patterns
• Able to work within a Git/Gitflow-based multi-branched software environment.
• Preferred experience with Java development tooling: Maven and/or Gradle.
  • Used continuous integration environments like TeamCity, Jenkins, Hudson.