(USA) Staff, Software Engineer

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Duties:

Leads the work of other small groups of six to ten engineers, including offshore associates, for assigned Engineering projects by providing pertinent documents, direction, and examples.

Gather requirements. Analyze the requirements from functional and non-functional perspectives. 

Assess gaps, updates, and modifications between customer and business expectations and the existing product and solution. 

Utilizes industry research to improve Wal-Mart's technology environment by analyzing industry best practices; bench marking industry against internal
processes and solutions; researching or influencing future industry solutions for fit with internal needs; and defining software development guidelines,
standards and processes.
Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business.
plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring
progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning.
Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training;

Anticipate risks and issues during the requirements gathering phase, inform the relevant stakeholders, and recommend corrective steps. 

Create user stories for the component or the application and calculate the estimated time required to finish each story. Ensure that the story can be completed within each sprint. 

Come up with the solution approach from an architecture point of view using Lucid. Execute a detailed analysis of the solution’s behavior in distributed systems and analyze the scalability requirements. 

In case of a failover, understand what the disaster recovery will look like. 

Create detailed designs at the object level using UML and specify the design patterns to be used and the interaction of different components. 

Use Spring Framework to write various components of the software application using Java. Use Python to write automation scripts. 

Deploy the same on the Azure Platform using CI/CD pipeline. Guide and review the team’s code and ensure that proper coding standard is being followed. 

Ensure that the team is writing efficient, scalable, and maintainable code. 

Create test plans based on customer requirements. Come up with corner use cases that are not obvious from the requirements. 

Use the TestNg/Junit framework to write functional and unit test cases. Ensure that test coverage is >=80% using SonarQube analysis tools. Use JIRA to track bugs.  

Monitor and evaluate the progress of the software engineering projects against approved milestones and timelines. 

Provide inputs to relevant stakeholders regarding schedule progress, health, issues and risks, and key dependencies. 

Provide inputs to relevant stakeholder on the creation of project plans to track and analyze defects for the component or module and carry out regression testing to fix defects in all instances of code changes. Analyze defects from past projects and solutions to avoid the recurrence of similar defects. Troubleshoot performance and availability bottlenecks for the software applications. 

Minimum education and experience required:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering (Any), or related field and 6 years of experience in large scale enterprise softw