Associate III

3 - 5 Years

1 Opening

Pune

Role Proficiency:

Develop applications contribute to maintenance and performance optimization by employing design patterns and reusing proven solutions. Account for developmental activities of juniors in the team with some guidance from Product Engineer I

Outcomes:

• Understand product requirements and user stories from customer discovery process

• Ensure requirements coverage of complex features with unit test cases

• Troubleshooting development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms. Provides technical guidance to the team to resolve challenging programming and design problems

• Create effort estimation and ETA for the deliverables assigned ensure adherence to timelines/SLAs wherever applicable

• Ensure code coverage and code quality by active participation in code reviews

• Ensure adherence to the best practices and standards with provision of periodic status updates

• Execute test cases and prepare release document in line with the requirements

• Influence and improve customer satisfaction

Measures of Outcomes:

• 100% adherence to engineering process and standards (coding standards) with minimal or no code review comments w.r.t given guidelines.

• 100% adherence to project schedule timelines and effort estimation

• Number of technical issues uncovered during the execution of the project

• Number of defects in the code

• Number of defects post delivery

• Number of noncompliance issues

• Quarterly/timely completion of mandatory domain/technical certifications

Outputs Expected:

Product Requirements:

• Understand the functional/ non-functional requirements gathered from stakeholders (Architect
  
  Product Manager
  
  Product Lead
  
  Client) for enhancement

• Understand new / complex product requirements (functional and non-functional)

• Seek review inputs from the Architect/Leads and incorporate the same

Product Design and Development:

• Contribute to product development
  
  follow SLA and delivery timelines

• Create POCs to identify the feasibility of new technologies/ products and share the findings with the architecture team for new products

• Provide technical inputs for product research
  
  design
  
  analysis
  
  testing
  
  process improvement
  
  and complex troubleshooting for critical and large projects

• Provide technical expertise to resolve challenging programming and design problems

• Participate in code reviews and eliminate implementation problems early in development cycle

• Seek review inputs from the product specialist

• Build code per the design document and ensure compliance on defined standards/guidelines.

• Support the client in user acceptance testing if required

• Ensure code quality and 100% code coverage.

Product Testing:

• Review Test Cases / Test Plan; conduct integration testing and resolve defects/bugs

Product Training and Documentation:

• Provide inputs to technical publications and review documentation of key features
  
  as required

Product Sign Offs:

• Resolve existing issues

Project Management:

• Provide input on the status of the module development to the development lead

Skills/Certifications:

• Upskill regularly and timely completion of mandatory domain/technical certifications

Skill Examples:

• Ability to use Domain / Industry Knowledge to independently understand capture the business requirements and fine-tune interact with SME at various stages of the development

• Ability to use Product Design knowledge to design/implement the business and non-functional requirements

• Ability to use knowledge of Product Features / Functionality to understand the technical dependency of the product workflow independently analyze the product apply the best practices in own area of work impart training on the various functional modules of the product

• Ability to design install configure troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines

• Ability to use Software Design & Development knowledge to develop code per the requirement specifications / user stories independently understand and follow engineering practices. Take technical responsibility for all stages in the software development and review process to ensure all practices are being followed

• Ability to use UX Knowledge to understand user interface design and implications on product design and development and improve product usability across the user base. Provide necessary input to design team that indicates the user profile/segments and enhanced skiil of users so the appropriate trade-offs can be achieved

Knowledge Examples:

• Domain / Industry Knowledge: Working knowledge of standard business processes within the relevant industry vertical customer business domain

• Product Design: Working knowledge of product architecture elements such as client server/SOA based configuration parameters and may specialize in one or more areas

• Product Features / Functionality: Working knowledge of the product
• Knowledge of Config/Build/Deploy processes and tools
• Knowledge of IAAS - Cloud providers (AWS Azure Google etc.) and their tool sets
• Knowledge of the application development lifecycle – agile and waterfall
• Knowledge of Quality Assurance processes
• Knowledge of Quality Automation processes and tools
• User Experience Knowledge: Basic knowledge of aspects that enhance product/systems usability; improving the overall user experience

Additional Comments:

Role Proficiency: Develops applications and selects appropriate technical options. Optimizes application development maintenance and performance by employing design patterns and by reusing proven solutions. Independently account for others' developmental activities and assists Lead I – Product Engineering Outcomes: Understand product requirements and user stories from customer discovery process Create high/low level design document and maintain necessary artefacts Ensure requirements coverage of complex features with unit test cases Ensure appropriate technical options for development are selected such as reusing improving or reconfiguration of existing components or create own solutions Troubleshooting development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms. Provide technical guidance to the team to resolve challenging programming and design problems Create effort estimation and ETA for the deliverables ensure adherence to timelines/SLAs wherever applicable Ensure code coverage and code quality by active participation in architecture / code reviews Ensure adherence to the best practices and standards with provision of periodic status updates Execute test cases and prepare release document in line with the requirements Ensure career progression for Associate Product Engineers via focused mentoring and grooming Ensure career progression for Associate Product Engineers & Product Engineers I via focused mentoring and grooming Optimises efficiency cost and quality Influence and improve customer satisfaction Influence and improve employee engagement within the project teams Set OKRs for self/team and also provide feedback to these goals of team members Measures of Outcomes: Adherence to engineering process and standards (coding standards) Adherence to project schedule / timelines Number of technical issues uncovered during the execution of the project Number of defects in the code Number of defects post delivery Number of non-compliance issues Number of reusable components/libs developed Adherence to mandatory domain certification/ product certifications Personal achievement of quarterly/yearly objectives (OKR Assignments HIG Stretch goals) Outputs Expected: Product Requirements: Understand the functional/ non functional requirements gathered from the stakeholders (Architect Product Manager Product Lead Client) for enhancement. Participate in cross functional meetings to review Product Marketing user stories and Functional Requirements and create clarification list to resolve ambiguities; Conduct feasibility study to understand the impact of user stories on the existing product; Provide inputs to the development lead on estimation Understand new / complex product requirements (functional and non functional) ; Create a low level design document (which captures class level diagram and attributes mapped to the class and sequence diagram) based on the understanding of high level design; 6. Seek review inputs from the Architect and incorporate the same Product Design and Development: Develop/Support scripts (like Powershell scripts) that automate configuration/build/deployment tasks Onboard and extend existing tools to product dev/support teams Deliver components that automates parts of the build/deploy lifecycle for products Configure a CI/CD pipeline that can be used by application development/support teams Create POCs to identify the feasibility of new technologies/ products and share the findings with the architecture team for new products Provide technical inputs for product research design analysis testing process improvement and complex troubleshooting for critical and large projects; Create high level software design (HLSD) documents under the guidance of Architects Provide technical expertise to resolve challenging programming and design problems Participate in architecture / code reviews and eliminate implementation problems early in development cycle Create and low level design document for product enhancement Seek review inputs from the product specialist Build code as per the design document Support the client in user acceptance testing if required Product Testing: Review Test Cases and Test Plan; Conduct Integration testing and resolve defects/bugs Product Training and Documentation: Provide inputs to technical publications and review documentation of key features as required. Product Sign Offs: Resolve existing issues Gather users' feedback from the client and identify ways to enhance the usability Project Management: Provide inputs on the status of the module development to the development lead. People Management: Mentor Software Engineers and conduct one on one sessions to coach team members; Enable high performance for team members using FAST G&F Skill Examples: Uses Domain / Industry Knowledge to ind

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