• Engage stakeholders and analyze business domain to identify functional and technical requirements, software constraints and design solutions performing trade-off analysis.
• Create and review functional, non-functional and technical documentation, following companywide standards, guidelines and templates, identifying omissions.
• Adapt and make sure that the written documentation is understood by different audiences (business vs. technical).
• Analyze, identify, define, document and implement NFRs (Non-Functional Requirements), (e.g. security, scalability, performance, etc.).
• Contribute to the project backlog by making sure that all non-functional, quality and technical requirements are properly documented, estimated and planned.
• Estimate effort for tasks applying agile project estimation methods and techniques, and review and validate estimates of other team members.
• Identify and analyze technical risks and mitigation approaches, making sure they are included in the estimates, plan and project backlog.
• Tailor existing design patterns according to the implementation needs, simplifying designs as needed and following the project architecture and design guidelines.
• Create design blueprints for the team.
• Independently implement complex technical solutions with little or no supervision, covering all functionality flows and applying industry and company best practices and guidelines (e.g. SOLID, design patterns, clean code etc.).
• Document code through comments to support software maintenance.
• Debug complex issues and support team members in debugging activities.
• Identify refactoring needs and drive and implement refactoring activities.
• Review code of other team members.
• Design integrations and identify and introduce existing code libraries into the project.
• Coach and guide other team members, review and validate designs, code and estimates and ensure they meet company standards.
• Create software prototypes as needed.
• Support Software Test Engineers in defining manual and automated test cases for integration scenarios, and participate in system acceptance.
• Design and implement unit and integration tests, following project and company practices, guidelines and standards and covering primary, alternative and error flows.
• Follow code coverage metrics and conventions when writing unit and integration tests.
• Make sure developed features have been properly deployed in different environments.
• Define software configuration and support DevOps Engineers in integrating configuration of developed software in the DevOps pipeline.
• Use standard tools for versioning and source control and configuration management, and contribute to defining project branching strategy.
• Independently set up complex project development environments, following the project environment design guidelines.
• Support software maintenance by troubleshooting and identifying root causes for complex issues, performing technical impact analysis and validating technical solutions.
• Support software training and handover activities, developing operational documentation, software help-desk plans and training materials for operational support personnel, as instructed by the team leadership.
• Support with technical onboarding of new team members.
• Follow the project agile process.
• Test and introduce new technologies, frameworks and tools to the project.
• Follow project and organization standards for designs and code.
• Set and monitor project-level quality KPIs following company standards and guidelines, collecting and analyzing quality data and implementing corrective actions if necessary.
• Keep up to date with technological advances in the field.
• Report work and task progress to the Project Manager, following project processes and reported frequency.