Principal Software Engineer/Developer

Primary Responsibilities:

• Participates in architecture design teams.
• Defines and implements application-level architecture.
• Develops applications on complex projects, components, and subsystems for the division.
• Recommends development testing tools and methodologies and reviews and validates test plans.
• Responsible for QA readiness of software deliverables.
• Develops comprehensive documentation for multiple applications or subsystems.
• Establishes full project life cycle plans for complex projects across multiple platforms.
• Responsible for meeting project goals on time and on budget.
• Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects.
• Plans and coordinates project schedules and assignments for multiple projects.
• Acts as a primary liaison for business units to resolve various project/technology issues.
• Provides technology solutions to daily issues and technical evaluation estimates on technology initiatives.
• Advises senior management on technical strategy.
• Mentors junior team members.
• Performs independent and complex technical and functional analysis for multiple projects supporting several divisional initiatives.
• Develops original and creative technical solutions to on-going development efforts.
• Confers with developers to design systems and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
• Develops and oversees software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Engineering Management, Information Technology, Information Technology Management, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience as a Principal Software Engineer/Developer (or closely related occupation) building and maintaining backend services using Java and internal service frameworks.

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Engineering Management, Information Technology, Information Technology Management, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and three (3) years of experience as a Principal Software Engineer/Developer (or closely related occupation) building and maintaining backend services using Java and internal service frameworks.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

· Demonstrated Expertise building test automation frameworks using Java and J2EE; writing automated test scripts using Cucumber, Serenity, Selenium automation frameworks, JEST, Cloud computing services (Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Apache Kafka) based micro-services; integrating automated test scripts using XRAY and Jenkins; and performing Web service testing using SOAP and REST API.

· Demonstrated Expertise developing test automation projects for application delivery of available and cost-efficient solutions, and bug free systems used to streamline business solutions, using Cucumber, Gherkin, scripting, or Test-Driven Development (TDD) tools according to Agile SCRUM methodology.

· Demonstrated Expertise performing DevSecOps, automated testing, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), using Concourse, Jenkins, and secure code practices.

· Demonstrated Expertise deploying test automation frameworks (JUnit, Cucumber/Fitness, Cypress, or Karate) to support testing (unit, component, integration, and system) executed through CI/CD pipelines.

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Information Technology

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