Product Software Engineer

Job Description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• The Applications Developer for Wolters Kluwer has primary responsibility for building a maintainable client application for auditors and accountants around the globe.
• Application Developer activities also include creating concise and robust programming code; participating in planning games, code reviews, and iteration demos; providing tier 4 support for customer issues; providing exceptional customer service; maintaining documentation according to content and timing standards; understanding other product technologies, how the code is structured and organized, the support model and the development process; and representing Wolters Kluwer within the industry.
• The candidate must be self-driven, self-motivated and able to accomplish work independently and able to work on a team where most team members are remote resources located around the world.
• What you ll be responsible for: - Design and implement solutions that are reliable, scalable and perform at a high-level to meet the needs of our global clients.
• Following Agile practices and participating in planning games, code reviews & iteration demos. - Design and implement solutions for the products transaction, reporting and analytical needs.
• Continually learn about new technologies, generate new ideas and improve the use of technology in the products.
• Translates software requirements into concise and robust programming code by gaining a full understanding of the code requirements for each story/task assigned or selected for coding (note: story and tasks will often align with the developer s area of expertise); taking personal responsibility for all stories assigned; engaging with the product owner, architects or lead applications developer to work out any technical details and clarify any ambiguities; generating innovate approaches and solutions to the story/task; collaborating with the team before selecting a final design; leveraging existing code when possible to expedite coding; ensuring all coding conventions are met and new code conforms to existing code; conducting unit testing (or other testing) on the task; communicating with QA resource that the task is complete; discussing any feedback from the QA resource; and making any additional modifications based on QA results and feedback from team. Participates in planning games, code reviews, and iteration demos by attending and fully engaging in meetings; building cost/benefit analyses of design alternatives; assisting team and product owners with providing estimates for resource requirement during development planning; demonstrating assigned story solutions back to team; providing feedback and input on planned and coded solutions; and identifying, recommending, and implementing improvements to the development process.
• Provides tier 4 support for customer issues by meeting with development support specialist to gain an understanding of any coding related maintenance issues discovered; validating that the reported source code is in fact the issue; designing a solution for the issue in accordance to the desired application behavior; reviewing planned solution with development support specialist; providing regular status reports to development support specialist on progress; ensuring solution is properly examined for quality; and coordinating release of code after user acceptance testing has been completed.
• Provides exceptional customer service that maintains or increases current customer satisfaction levels by working collaboratively and directly with customers and internal resources to deliver solutions that exceed customer expectations and minimize customer impacts; providing frequent updates on coding solutions and progress to team members; continually improving internal systems; and maintaining an up-to-date understanding of the functionality and technologies of internal systems.
• Maintains documentation according to content and timing standards by utilizing the source control system to check out and check in code; utilizing agile development tool (Version 1); recording all changes to status of task/story; recording hours of effort to complete tasks; and developing technical and user documentation.
• Learns the Analytics product and has an understanding of all products (e.g., usage, work flow, backend coding), as well as the support model and technologies in order to effectively serve clients by completing end-user software training; and being trained on how code is organized, source control, available resources, and tools utilized; reviewing user documentation until a thorough understanding is reached; working with actual products to establish and maintain competence in demonstrating, using, troubleshooting, and issue resolution; and understanding the use of industry tools and technology and their impact on project goals.
• Represents Wolters Kluwer by developing and maintaining comprehensive knowledge of Wolters Kluwer products and industry trends through various sources and initiative; communicating Wolters Kluwer competitive advantage to customers in a compelling articulate manner in speech and writing; behaving in ways that demonstrate corporate core values and culture; developing professional and positive relationships with customers and colleagues; and maintaining a reputation of competence, integrity and professionalism.

OTHER DUTIES Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor.

• JOB QUALIFICATIONS Education: B.S. in Computer Science or Computer Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• Experience: - Minimum 3 years developing in a .NET/SQL environment with C#.
• Good understanding of object oriented programming and design patterns
• Familiar with design patterns and good understanding of OOD/OOP practices
• Experience writing unit and integration tests
• Strong communication skills - verbal and written
• ability to work collaboratively as a team
• Passionate about software development
• 3 years of developing desktop software for a commercial product
• 1 year of Microsoft Office development experience, including - Use of VSTO or COM add-ins
• Using Excel document object model
• Using Word document object model optional Other Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Certifications: 1 year of development experience using the following technologies
• OpenXML
• WCF Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) - Experience or knowledge of Data Analytics - Good knowledge and experience of using Excel.

Skills : C#, SQL server, Asp.Net. MVC, WEB API, Excel Interop.All Locations: IND-Pune-Old Mumbai Pune Hwy,

Keyskills :
javasqljavascriptsql serverjqueryvisual basic for applicationsdocument object modeluser acceptance testingobject oriented programmingcomputer information systemsvisual basicunit testing