Associate Software Engineer

GENERAL PURPOSE OF JOB
The software engineer is a member of an agile team focused on the Construction and System Testing phases of the secure software development life cycle. The Software Engineer will code, unit test and debug custom software modules. Install, configure, and integrate packaged business software modules. Provide professional, courteous, timely and dependable support to our 24/7 business. Actively contribute in an agile team environment by participating in code reviews, design discussions, agile ceremonies, taking ownership of assigned tasks, delivering tangible results, and sharing after-hours support duties. Software engineers are expected to communicate progress, communicate barriers, and participate in sizing of work with the agile team. Software engineers should be comfortable working with product management, stakeholders, and other DevOps teams. As daily tasks are performed, software engineers are responsible for developing competence with and applying knowledge of databases, and software development tools, techniques, standards and methodologies employed at Quad. Software engineers are also responsible for gaining a basic understanding of Quad's general business operations and processes pertinent to their assigned business area. Aids in executing system tests, performance tuning of databases and applications, and plan/execute software releases.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Job Responsibilities
• Code, unit test and debug custom software modules.
o Install, configure and integrate packaged business software modules
o Track work items
o Participates in code reviews
• Contributes to team being successful in keeping commitments
• Identifies and communicates obstacles
• Responsible for gaining basic understanding of Quad IT’s general business operations and processes pertinent to assigned team
• Test case creation and execution
o Aids in execution of system tests
• Effective listening and communication skills
• Communicate progress, barriers, and sizing of work to agile team
• Open to receive effective feedback
• Actively help team support solutions
• Understand and participate in Agile processes set forth by team
Client Focus
• Build rapport with business partners, product owners and subject matter experts
• Provide professional, courteous, timely and dependable support to our 24/7 business
Solutioning
• Knowledge and understanding of basic solutioning capabilities of team and Quad
• Awareness of: usability, simplicity, security, reliability, uptime, performance, scalability, maintainability
• Basic understanding of lean and agile principles
• Participate in team ceremonies, provides input in retrospectives
• Learns new tools and techniques
• Practice Design Improvement ( Refactoring )
Teamwork
• Actively contribute in agile team environment by participating in code reviews and design discussions, agile ceremonies, taking ownership of assigned tasks, delivering tangible results, and sharing after-hours support duties
• Good at recognizing when to ask for help
• Collaboratively solve problems
• Actively builds relationships with team members and lead
• Participate in team retrospectives and provides feedback to team and its members
• Open and willing to receive feedback
• Openly shares best practices, emerging technologies, and lessons learned.
• Communicates progress, barriers, and sizing of work to agile team
• Practices Testing, Collective Code Ownership, Continuous Integration and follows team coding standards.
Work Quality
• Accurate, pays attention to detail
• Readable code, well factored code
• Follows team code documentation standards
• Participates and provides input with quality improvement efforts and discussion
• Tests software early in development
• Work satisfies team's definition of done
• Responsible for developing competence with and applying knowledge of databases, software development tools, techniques, standards and methodologies employed at Quad. Basic understanding and usage of core language features.
Education:
• Bachelor’s degree
Experience:
• No experience required
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
• Effective Listening and Communication skills;
• Open to receiving feedback
• Ambition and excitement for professional development
• Contributes to team being successful in keeping commitments
• Build rapport with business partners, product owners and subject matter experts
• Good at recognizing when to ask for help
• Collaboratively solve problems
• Actively builds relationships with team members and lead
• Accurate, pays attention to detail