Senior Software Engineer - Kolkata - Sunquest @ Sunquest Information

• Strong analytical skills, problem solving skills and ability to resolve problems independently.
• Expert knowledge and proven ability to successfully write code and test software applications.
• Strong overall knowledge of computing and technical environments, such as operating systems, communication protocols, software applications, hardware platforms, etc.
• Exceptional comprehension skills, and ability to learn and contribute with minimal oversight, a self-starter.
• Ability to think in abstract and quickly grasp the essence of the job at hand.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, dealing with technical data.
• He/she must be proactive in taking up challenges and work under stress situations.
• He/she must be an excellent team player.
• Ability to work with development team in the US.
• The candidate must be client and company oriented.

Educational Requirements

• Bachelors degree or appropriate combination of education and experience or MCA/ BE/ B.Tech/ M.Tech (CS or IT) with relevant experience

Technical Requirements

• Expert level knowledge with all or a combination of .net Core, ASP.Net, C#, Entity framework, dependency injection, unit testing, Restful services, Web API.
• Expert level knowledge in implementing solutions using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, AJAX, Angular and Typescript.
• Working knowledge with database technologies such as SQL Server, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Elasticsearch; exposure with Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Cassandra can be a plus point.
• Exposure on Azure and AWS is an added advantage.
• Deep experience and skills in building web-based user interfaces and multi-tiered web applications.
• Thorough hands on experience with OOAD and Design Patterns including but not limited to MVC, MVVM.
• Able to drive ideas from early design through to implementation, working in a collaborative and iterative process.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Experience working in TFS/GIT as the primary source control management tool.
• Experience working in an Agile software development environment including participation in a team using one of the more commonly used process frameworks.

Job Responsibilities

• Review, modify, develop, and implement software applications, usually very complex in nature.
• Investigate and make recommendations on newer, advanced and bleeding edge technologies.
• Ensure that coding, development standards and conventions are followed. Design and develop in accordance with established standards.
• Design, code and debug applications in various software languages and technologies.
• Understand, determine and document impact analysis as per the code changes done.
• Understand, perform and document unit testing as per the code changes done which takes care of positive and negative unit test scenarios.
• Participate in testing process through test review and analysis.
• Comprehend the technical and functional requirements in depth in such a way that the assigned tasks can be completed with high quality.
• Understand the defined scope of the requirement / bug.
• Performing RCA before coming up with solutions to resolve a support ticket/bug.
• Should track work hours properly with the respective development tasks and document the technical notes appropriately in the TFS task.
• Should learn new development constructs related to the technology used in the product with an objective to improve productivity of the self and to improve the robustness of the product.
• Should come up with innovative ideas & deliver presentations to client audiences/professional peers for making the product more scalable and reliable.
• Ensuring that each development item is thoroughly unit tested in a proper deployable environment (outside the development environment), before it is handed over to the Implementation group for Integration Testing and the QA group for overall Quality Assurance.
• Participating in analysis and design meetings for the Product.
• Active participant in software release cycle, providing key technical leadership to the team.
• Work as an active and collaborative member of a Scrum team. Participate in all scrum ceremonies with team to review Technical Design Specifications, obtain development tasks, track progress, clarify technical issues pertaining to coding and testing of the design.
• Conduct performance analysis as per the established development process and document the same as per the performance tracking template.
• Should strictly adhere to the time deadlines and ensure timely escalations.
• Should inform Manager about the available capacity well ahead of time for better planning of the future tasks in pipeline.
• Tracking and working on development issues for a given release as previously assigned, and as they come up assimilating them into a status report for the Manager.
• Assisting the Manager in prioritizing and assigning technical activities to the members of the Development Team, based on the release content decided by the Manager.
• Assisting the Manager in managing the development resources and priorities, once assigned to development tasks.
• Train, mentor and serve as a resource to other members of the team and cross-departmental colleagues regarding software questions.
• Identify and implement ways to improve quality and efficiencies in the department.