Research Assistant Software Developer Jobs in Fayetteville, AR

Position:Software Engineer III

Job Location:811 Excellence Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716

Duties:Participatesin the discovery phase of small to medium-sized projects tocome up withhigh level design by partnering with the product management, project management, business, and user experience teams. Troubleshoots business and production issues by gathering information; performing root cause analysis to reduce future issues; engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues; developing solutions; driving the development of an action plan; performing actions as designated in the plan; interpreting the results to determine further action; and completing online documentation. Manages small to large-sized complex projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; researching and identifying alternative solutions; determining needed solution based on return on investment and value add to the business; gathering requested information; writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with project team and cross functional teams; identifying areas of opportunity; interpreting information and identifying a solution; ensuring solution is sustainable across implementation and use; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; and ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs. Provides support to the business by responding to user questions, concerns, and issues; researching and identifying needed solutions; determining implementation designs; providing guidance regarding implications of new and enhanced systems; identifying short- and long-term solutions; and directing users to appropriate contacts for issues outside of associate's domain. Requirement And Scoping Analysis: Prepare requirement traceability matrix andmaintaintraceability between business requirements, functional requirements,designand test cases. Contribute to the creation of user stories for component/module/simple requirements. Coding: To create/configure minimalistic code for entire component/application and ensure the componentsare meetingbusiness/technical requirements, non-functional requirements, low-maintainability, high-availabilityand high-scalability needs.Assistin the selection ofappropriate languages, developmentstandardsand tools for software coding/configuration. Take initiative to learn the fundamentals of different coding languages and frameworks that would be useful for future scope of work.Build scripts for automation of repetitive and routine tasks in CI/CD, Testing or any other process.Implement telemetry features asrequiredindependently. Ensure security policy requirements are properly applied to components/application during code development/configuration. Testing: To map the customerrequirements into testobjectives.Identifyand create test cases for the component/module. Execute test cases to test the code and detect errors and defects for the entirecomponent. Executedifferent typesof testing usingappropriate testingtools based on the testing needs. Defect Management and Troubleshooting: To track and analyze defects for the component/ module and carry out regression testing to fix defects in all instances of code changes. Analyze defects from past projects/solutions to avoid recurrence of similar defects. Troubleshoot performance and availability bottlenecks for the application DevOps Orientation: To conduct complex maintenance procedures for applications independently. Monitor and evaluate the performance of the application by tracking and analyzingappropriate metrics; Perform maintenance and re-engineering activities. Analyze application logs, maintenance activity data, performance data and provide analysis; Evaluate change requests toidentifythose which are valid andfeasible.

Minimum education and experience required:Master's degree or the equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related field; OR Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related field and 2 years of experience in software engineering or related experience.

Skills required:Must have experience with: Developing object-oriented software and web applications using Java, Python, SQL, ANDJunits; Delivering software applications within an Agile environment by actively participating in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives; Designing and implementing end-to-end DevOps CI/CD pipelines to automate application build, testing, and deployment workflows; Using Test Driven Development (TTD) tools like Selenium,BeautifulSoupand Robot Framework for Python Automation; Ingesting and maintaining business data in SQL (Azure SQL) and NoSQL databases (Azure Cosmos DB); Developing spring boot applications using microservices architecture to maintain small and lightweight services and communication between these services are done by using API routes for the entire cluster; Troubleshooting production issues and bug fixes; Working with revision control systems, including Git, to manage source code, track changes, and support collaborative development; Ensuring code integrity through branching strategies, versioning, and efficient merge and conflict resolution processes; Container orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes for microservices deployment and scaling.Employerwill accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

Rate of pay:$90,000.00 - 180,000.00/year

Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.