Software Engineer I

What you’ll be doing

• Interacts with the Product Owner / Business Analyst to define, refine, develop, test and deliver against functional requirements
• Understands and translates functional into technical requirements
• Works with an architecture team to design the components of the product suite
• Provides input to the project delivery plan, including sizing and estimation if required, with regards to one’s areas of responsibility
• Coordinates the work within the boundaries of their teams and project
• Being accountable for the quality of one’s team and supporting through code review processes and testing strategies as a whole-team approach
• Implements correct, performant and reliable code on schedule and according to specification
• Determines code quality and test coverage, and designing and implementing tests to make sure software is built to the highest quality possible
• Develops and maintains test automation efficiency and effectiveness
• Responsible for defect closure and root cause analysis to avoid regressions
• Drives continual improvement in quality and efficiency, including defect prevention/ root cause analysis, suggesting and adopting improvements to technology and efficiency
• Collaborates and partners across different departments including support, consulting, product management, and engineering
• Writes technical documentation for internal or external consumption, for developers of varying skills level
• Influences system designs and plans from a testing perspective
• Reviews, analyses and improves test coverage and reduces defect count for their product area
• Collaborate with developers to bring new software releases and services into production
• Automate everything from deployment, monitoring, management and incident response - treat 'Everything as Code'
• Develop and improve operational practices and procedures

More about you

• Candidate ideally possess a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Information Technology, Engineering (Computer/Telecommunication) or numerical discipline with strong computing background
• Strong programming, troubleshooting, analytical & problem-solving skills
• Relevant understanding of process and methodologies that drive scalable software development and software testing
• Good communication, organisational & interpersonal skills
• Desire to work in a dynamic, fast moving and challenging (and somewhat ambiguous) environment
• Have strong interest in DevOps, Build and Release Engineering. Internship or other previous experience in DevOps, Infrastructure operations or similar would be considered as an advantage

Beneficial Skills

• Understanding and familiarity with some good Java design and Software Engineering processes/methods such as:
  • Architecture design
  • Design Patterns
  • Refactoring
  • Agile methodologies (Lean, Scrum, Kanban, etc.)
  • CI/CD, DevOps and Test Automation
  • TDD – Test Driven Development, BDD – Behavioral Driven Development
  • Automated unit testing (e.g. JUnit)
  • Automated functional testing (e.g. TestNG, Cucumber, Selenium)
  • Mocking Framework (e.g. JMockit, Mockito, WireMock)
• Exposure to any relevant Open Source tools & Frameworks, Ajax, Spring, JSF, Ant, Subversion, Maven, CruiseControl, Hibernate/JPA, Junit, JMS, SOAP, Axis, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Ansible and Cucumber
• Fair understanding in Kubernetes (EKS, OpenShift) and cloud technology – AWS, Azure
• Fair understanding in Continuous integration tools - Jenkins, Maven, Gradle
• Comfortable working in Linux environment: Ubuntu / Debian, Redhat / CentOS