Provides development engineering support and programming support to projects and infrastructure support activities. Designs and develops enterprise applications in a Web environment.
Develops, creates, and modifies general computer applications software or specialized utility programs. Analyzes user needs and develop software solutions. Designs software or customize software for client use with the aim of optimizing operational efficiency. May analyze and design databases within an application area, working individually or coordinating database development as part of a team. May manage websites including design, develop, deploy and maintain activities as well as performs testing and quality assurance of web sites and web applications.
Converts project specifications and statements of problems and procedures to detailed logical flow charts for coding into computer language. Develops and writes computer programs to store, locate, and retrieve specific documents, data, and information. Analyzes functional business applications and design specifications for functional activities. Develops codes, tests, and debugs new software or enhancements to existing software. Performs maintenance on existing software products and contributes knowledge of business applications. Writes programs according to specifications needed. Provides technical support in the evaluation of prime object names, data elements, and other objects. Ensures that proposed object definitions are clear, concise, technically correct, and that they represent singular concepts. Ensures that the proposed objects are consistent with data and process models.
Works with the technical staff to understand problems had with software and then resolve them. Resolves customer complaints with the software and responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements. Develops block diagrams and logic flow charts. Prepares required documentation.
Analyzes functional business applications and design specifications for functional areas such as payroll, logistics, and contracts. Develops high level and detailed design diagrams using appropriate Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools.
Translates detailed design into computer software. 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.
Monitors and supports computer processing. Coordinates input, output, and file media. Distributes output and controls computer operation.
Tasks:
- Design and develop tools for the MS Windows and relevant operating system platforms.
- Design and develop tools that integrate with commercial applications.
- Design and develop database management systems, image processing, collaborative tools, data manipulation techniques, data visualization techniques, and directory services.
- Provide database architectural and design capabilities.
- Develop unit and functional test plan.
- Provide the operations and maintenance of operational systems.
- Modify existing software to correct errors, allow it to adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance.
- Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
- 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.
- Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design system and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
- Correct errors by making appropriate changes and then recheck the program to ensure that the desired results are produced.
- Conduct trial runs of programs and software applications to be sure they will produce the desired information and that the instructions are correct.
- Compile and write documentation of program development and subsequent revisions, inserting comments in the coded instructions so others can understand the program.
- Write, update, and maintain computer programs or software packages to handle specific jobs, such as tracking inventory, storing or retrieving data, or controlling other equipment.
- Consult with managerial, engineering, and technical personnel to clarify program intent, identify problems, and suggest changes.
- Perform or direct revision, repair, or expansion of existing programs to increase operating efficiency or adapt to new requirements.
- Write, analyze, review, and rewrite programs, using workflow chart and diagram, and applying knowledge of computer capabilities, subject matter, and symbolic logic.
- Write or contribute to instructions or manuals to guide end users.
- Investigate whether networks, workstations, the central processing unit of the system, or peripheral equipment are responding to a program's instructions.
- Prepare detailed workflow charts and diagrams that describe input, output, and logical operation, and convert them into a series of instructions coded in a computer language.
- Consult with and assist computer operators or system analysts to define and resolve problems in running computer programs.
- Assign, coordinate, and review work and activities of programming personnel.
- Collaborate with computer manufacturers and other users to develop new programming methods.
- Train subordinates in programming and program coding
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Computers and Electronics - Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
- Mathematics - Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
- English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- 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.
- Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- Design - Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
- Education and Training - Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
- Communications and Media - Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
- Clerical - Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
- Telecommunications - Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
- Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Technology Design - Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
- Troubleshooting - Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
- Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Programming - Writing computer programs for various purposes.
- Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Systems Analysis - Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Mathematics - Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Operations Analysis - Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
- Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- 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 Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- 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.
- Mathematical Reasoning - The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Originality - The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Tools used in this occupation:
- Desktop computers
- High end computer servers - Application servers; Directory 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 - Database management software; Distributed database management software; Microsoft SQL Server; Microsoft transact-structural query language T-SQL
- Development environment software - C; Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation XLST; IBM Rational Rose XDE Developer D93; Microsoft Visual Basic
- Object or component oriented development software - C++; Document Object Model DOM Scripting; Simple API for XML SAX; Sun Microsystems Java
- Operating system software - Job control language JCL; Unix; VxWorks software; Win CE
- Program testing software - Defect tracking software; Fault testing software; IBM Rational ClearQuest; Mercury Interactive LoadRunner
