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EdgeWorks, Inc. —Chantilly, VA
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EdgeWorks, Inc. —Chantilly, VA
Design - Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

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Tools Developer

EdgeWorks, Inc. -
Chantilly, VA

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Job Details

Qualifications

Monitoring machines
Usability testing
Project reporting
Cost management
Statistics
Cognos
Operational analysis
Systems integration
Software engineering
CSS
Bug Tracking (Quality assurance practices)
Engineering development testing
Requirements design
XML
IIS
Visual Basic
Tooling
Embedded systems
Calculus
Equipment installation
LoadRunner
Struts
Software implementation
Hardware maintenance
Process design
Bug Reporting (Quality assurance practices)
Equipment troubleshooting
English
Control system design
Software installation

Full Job Description

Identify applications that can support the exploitation of databases. Assess what will be required to integrate a particular tool into the customer environment. Integrate tools into the customer environment. Uses the BPM application to create live implementations of processes. Provides group facilitation, interviewing, training, and provides additional forms of knowledge transfer. Key coordinator between multiple project teams to ensure enterprise-wide integration of reengineering efforts. Tests, debugs, and refines the computer software to produce the required product.

Prepares required documentation, including both program-level and user-level documentation. Enhances software to reduce operating time or improve efficiency. Provides technical direction to programmers as required to ensure program deadlines are met.

Tasks:

Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
Analyze information to determine, recommend, and plan computer specifications and layouts, and peripheral equipment modifications.
Review existing programs and assist in making refinements, reducing operating time, and improve current techniques.
Modify existing software to correct errors, allow it to adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance.
Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design system and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
Obtain and evaluate information on factors such as reporting formats required, costs, and security needs to determine hardware configuration.
Estimate software development costs and schedule.
Consult with customers about software system design and maintenance.
Coordinate software system installation and monitor equipment functioning to ensure specifications are met.
Design, develop and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design.
Develop and direct software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation.
Supervise the work of programmers, technologists and technicians and other engineering and scientific personnel.
Consult with engineering staff to evaluate interface between hardware and software, develop specifications and performance requirements and resolve customer problems.
Develop and direct software system testing and validation procedures.
Consult with customers or other departments on project status, proposals and technical issues such as software system design and maintenance.
Advise customer about, or perform, maintenance of software system.
Coordinate installation of software system.
Monitor functioning of equipment to ensure system operates in conformance with specifications.
Store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements.
Confer with data processing and project managers to obtain information on limitations and capabilities for data processing projects.
Prepare reports and correspondence concerning project specifications, activities and status.
Evaluate factors such as reporting formats required, cost constraints, and need for security restrictions to determine hardware configuration.
Train users to use new or modified equipment.
Utilize microcontrollers to develop control signals, implement control algorithms and measure process variables such as temperatures, pressures and positions.
Recommend purchase of equipment to control dust, temperature, and humidity in area of system installation.
Specify power supply requirements and configuration.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Computers and Electronics - Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
Engineering and Technology - Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
Mathematics - Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
Telecommunications - Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
Design - Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
Programming - Writing computer programs for various purposes.
Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
Troubleshooting - Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Technology Design - Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
Operations Analysis - Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
Systems Analysis - Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
Speech Clarity - The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Information Ordering - The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Speech Recognition - The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.

Tools used in this occupation:

Desktop computers
High end computer servers - Application servers
Integrated circuit testers - In circuit emulators ICE; Logic analyzers
Notebook computers
Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers - Personal digital assistants PDA

Technology used in this occupation:

Database management system software - Computer Associates integrated data management system CA-IDMS; Database management software; Microsoft SQL Server; Oracle DBMS
Development environment software - C; Embedded systems development software; IBM Rational Rose XDE Developer; Microsoft Visual Basic
Object or component oriented development software - C++; Self; Simulation language SIMULA; Sun Microsystems Java
Program testing software - Defect tracking software; Mercury Interactive LoadRunner; Source code editor software; Usability testing software
Web platform development software - Apache Struts; Hypertext markup language HTML; JavaScript; Ruby on Rails
In depth development experience with Java, Java component development, JavaScript, PERL, XML, XSL and/or HTTP/HTML, IIS, iPlanet, Apache, WebLogic, Web service development in J2EE, SQL, experience with spiral or evolutionary development, CSS, JSP, web services. In-depth knowledge of one or more specific COTS products in use, such as WebLogic, PlumTree, WebMethods, RetrievalWare, TeamWorks, COGNOS.

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