Entry Software Developer Jobs in Santa Clara, CA

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JOB SUMMARY
Act creatively to develop applications by selecting appropriate technical options, optimizing application development, maintenance and performance by employing design patterns and reusing proven solutions. Account for others' developmental activities; assisting Project Manager in day to day project execution.
Key Responsibilities
1. Interpret the application, feature, and component designs to develop the same in accordance with specifications.
2. Code, debug, test, document and communicate product, component and feature development stages.
3. Validate results with user representatives, integrating and commissions the overall solution.
4. Select and create appropriate technical options for development such as reusing, improving or reconfiguration of existing components while creating own solutions for new contexts
5. Optimises efficiency, cost and quality.
6. Influence and improve customer satisfaction
7. Influence and improve employee engagement within the project teams
8. Set FAST goals for self
Typical performance measures:
1. Adherence to engineering process and standards (coding standards)
2. Adherence to project schedule / timelines
3. Number of technical issues uncovered during the execution of the project
4. Number of defects in the code
5. Number of defects post delivery
6. Number of non compliance issues
7. Percent of voluntary attrition
8. On time completion of mandatory compliance trainings
Performance Areas:
Code:
Code as per the design
Define coding standards, templates and checklists
Review code - for team and peers
Documentation:
Create/review templates, checklists, guidelines, standards for design/process/development
Create/review deliverable documents. Design documentation, requirements, test cases and results
Configure:
Define and govern configuration management plan
Ensure compliance from the team
Test:
Review/Create unit test cases, scenarios and execution
Review test plan created by testing team
Provide clarifications to the testing team
Domain relevance:
Advise software developers on design and development of features and components with deeper understanding of the business problem being addressed for the client
Learn more about the customer domain and identify opportunities to provide value addition to customers
Complete relevant domain certifications
Manage Project:
Support Project Manager with inputs for the projects
Manage delivery of modules
Manage complex user stories
Manage Defects:
Perform defect RCA and mitigation
Identify defect trends and take proactive measures to improve quality
Estimate:
Create and provide input for effort and size estimation and plan resources for projects
Manage knowledge:
Consume and contribute to project related documents, share point, libraries and client universities
Review the reusable documents created by the team
Release:
Execute and monitor release process
Design:
Contribute to creation of design (HLD, LLD, SAD)/architecture for applications, features business components and data models
Interface with Customer:
Clarify requirements and provide guidance to Development Team
Present design options to customers
Conduct product demos
Work closely with customer architects for finalizing design
Manage Team:
Set FAST goals and provide feedback
Understand aspirations of the team members and provide guidance, opportunities, etc
Ensure team members are upskilled
Ensure team is engaged in project
Proactively identify attrition risks and work with BSE on retention measures
Required Qualifications
Skill Examples:
1. Explain and communicate the design / development to the customer
2. Perform and evaluate test results against product specifications
3. Break down complex problems into logical components
4. Develop user interfaces, business software components
5. Use data models
6. Estimate time and effort resources required for developing / debugging features / components
7. Perform and evaluate test in the customer or target environments
8. Make quick decisions on technical/project related challenges
9. Manage a team, mentor and handle people related issues in team
10. Have the ability to maintain high motivation levels and positive dynamics within the team.
11. Interface with other teams, designers, and other parallel practices
12. Set goals for self and team. Provide feedback for team members
13. Create and articulate impactful technical presentations
14. Follow high level of business etiquette in emails and other business communication
15. Drive conference calls with customers and answer customer questions
16. Proactively ask for and offer help
17. Ability to work under pressure, determine dependencies, risks, facilitate planning handling multiple tasks.
18. Build confidence with customers by meeting the deliverables timely with a quality product.
19. Estimate time and effort of resources required for developing / debugging features / components
Knowledge Examples:
1. Appropriate software programs / modules
2. Functional & technical designing
3. Programming languages - proficient in multiple skill clusters
4. DBMS
5. Operating Systems and software platforms
6. Software Development Life Cycle
7. Agile - Scrum or Kanban Methods
8. Integrated development environment (IDE)
9. Rapid application development (RAD)
10. Modelling technology and languages
11. Interface definition languages (IDL)
12. Broad knowledge of customer domain and deep knowledge of sub domain where problem is solved
Certifications
Obtain relevant domain and technology certifications