Description
This is a 7 month contract position.Position responsibilities:
- Assist in the requirements phase of software projects
- Create high-level design documents from requirements utilizing Object Oriented or Structured Methods that contain such items as use cases, flow diagrams, structure definitions and architecture diagrams
- Create detailed design documents from high-level design documents utilizing Object Oriented or Structured Methods that contain such items as low-level state machine diagrams, common procedural definitions and database design elements
- Code applications from detailed design specifications
- Unit test applications using applications tools such as symbolic debugger, protocol analyzer and message emulation scopes and internally developed application test tools
- Integration testing across interfacing funtional groups that may be involved, such as crossroads, billing and reporting
- Lead project teams through the entire development process
- Review design documents, code and test results to ensure accuracy
- Become an SME of one area in wireless or Wireline telecommunications
Position requirements:
- 7+ years experience in a Unix, Tandem or IBM Mainframe software product development environment
- Strong telecommunications and wireless industry knowledge
- Strong knowledge of third party vendor tools (eg monitoring, scalability, performance tuning
- Strong working knowledge of software design processes and methods
- Working knowledge of MS Office applications
- Experience using a source code management tool
- Solid understanding of system architecture
- Solid understanding of statistical and benchmark testing
- Proficiency with Unix Shell Scripting (korn, borne, bash, etc.)
- Expert at one or more of the following programming languages: C, C++ or Java
- Proficient at developing SQL
- Oracle or Informix development expertise and design techniques
- Object Oriented development methodologies and design patterns (DESIRED)
- Experience with Integrated Development Environments: Forte, JBuilder, Visual Studio (Preferred)