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Job Description
Job Summary
Responsible for designing, coding, verifying, testing, documenting, amending, and refactoring PeopleSoft COBOL programs. Developers gather information, perform analysis, and elicit the details of user requirements in discussion with users.
Contribute software development methods, tools, and techniques and applies agreed standards and tools to achieve well-engineered outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Defines and manages scoping and requirements definition and ensures traceability to source.
- Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends, and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services. Uses appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, guidelines, patterns, and methodology.
- Develops and executes test plans and test cases; implements scalable and reliable automated tests and frameworks.
- Develops acceptance criteria related to functional and non-functional requirements, business processes, features, user stories and business rules.
- Selects appropriate tools and techniques to evaluate user experiences of systems, products, services, or devices, and validates that security, usability and accessibility requirements have been met.
- Develops, configures, and maintains tools to identify, track, log and maintain accurate, complete, and current system information; develops and maintains associated operational documentation.
- Maintains application support processes and uses application management software tools to investigate issues, prioritize and diagnose incidents, collect performance statistics, and create reports.
- Defines, documents, and executes small projects or sub-projects. May act as product owner for one or more lower-value products or services, managing elements of the product life cycle to meet customer/user needs and achieve financial or other targets.
- Plans, organizes, and suggests opportunities for improvement. Contributes to identifying and analyzing.
- Monitors and reports on performance, customer satisfaction, adherence to security requirements and market intelligence.
- Continuously develops and maintains personal knowledge of software engineering practices, emerging trends, and technologies.
- Successfully troubleshoots most applications problems independently, whenever they occur.
- Analyzes a chain of events and applies technical knowledge following established procedures and/or detailed specifications.
- Work with Oracle support on a 24x7 basis on issues and software bugs for Production P1 issues
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- Minimum 3 years of experience as a PeopleSoft Cobol Developer
Skills
- Exhibit a high-level of attention to detail, possess the ability to multi-task and adjust to shifting priorities
- The individual must possess excellent interpersonal skills, excellent oral and written communication skills, as well as strong organizational and planning skills
- Ability to maintain documentation, manuals, and produce reports
- Ability to solve complex problems in a timely manner by working with multiple stakeholders
- Ability to follow detailed procedures and processes with a high degree of accuracy
- Must demonstrate proficiency with MS Office tools such as Excel to assist with data analysis
- Proficiency in PeopleTools 8.59.x, WebLogic 14c, Tuxedo
- Proficiency in MicroFocus Cobol
- Proficiency in Software Testing
- Hands-on programming experience in a business setting.
- Proficiency in at least one software engineering methodology, including but not limited to: Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Extreme Programming (XP), Kanban, Lean, Rapid Application Development (RAD).
- Experience applying a structured validation and testing method, including but not limited to: Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and navigate organizational ambiguity.
- Programming experience with the following language(s): including but not limited to COBOL, Oracle, JavaScript, Java, File management experience.
- PeopleSoft Developer, PeopleSoft HRMS 9.2.x, Pension Administration, Fluid, Peoplecode, SQR, SQL, Peopletools, Application Engine, PS Query, Integrations with 3rd Party
Employee Type
Permanent
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