Job Description

Software Developer

Develop new features, enhancements, and bug fixes for the Cognos Analytics platform, following best coding practices and design principles.

Create and integrate User Interfaces, APIs, services, and data connectors that allow the system to interact with various data sources and third-party applications.

Develop and manage database interactions, ensuring optimal performance and data retrieval processes.

Implement and follow coding standards, code reviews, and quality control processes to ensure high-quality code.

Participate in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives. Follow and contribute to Agile practices.

Actively investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve issues or bugs within the application, including those reported by end-users or QA.

Identify performance bottlenecks and optimize the performance of Cognos Analytics features.

Develop and execute unit/integrations tests to ensure individual components of the system function correctly. Write integration tests for system-wide functionality.

Work closely with other teams, such as product management, business analysts, UX/UI designers, DevOps, SRE, and data engineers, to ensure requirements are understood and solutions meet business needs.

Required education
Bachelor’s Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and devise solutions

1-5 years of experience in automated quality engineering / software development / test automation.

Proficiency in JavaScript, Java, Spring, SQL, RDBMS

Proficiency in UI automation with Selenium

Proficiency with shell/bash scripting and Linux/Unix command-line interface

Proficiency in scripting on Microsoft Visual Studio Code Editor, etc.

Experience or willingness to learn testing of cloud-native applications

Understanding of agile development, test management, continuous integration, continuous development environment (CICD) with tools such asGitHub, Jira, Jenkins etc.

Other ToolsSSH clients, container technologies (ieDocker, Podman).

Ability to work independently in a large matrix organization.

Troubleshoot and solve customer issues on production deployments

Preferred technical and professional experience

Knowledge of Mobile App Testing and Automation frameworks and tools

Knowledge of Performance Testing and Load Testing tools

Proficiency in using automated API testing tools.

Knowledge of programming using Go, C++, C# etc.

Knowledge of software design patterns, microservices.

Agile software development methodologies

Knowledge of CI/CD, Openshift, Kubernetes etc.

Ability to adapt to and learn new technologies
Role: Software Developer in Test (SDET)
Industry Type: IT Services & Consulting
Department: Engineering – Software & QA
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
Role Category: Quality Assurance and Testing
Education
UG: B.Tech/B.E. in Any Specialization
PG: Any Postgraduate