The job holder is responsible for Development, Maintenance and Support of new systems or existing business Systems – iTax
Responsibilities
- Review business use cases
- Develop system use cases and system design specifications
- Develops new or enhance existing systems components including internal and external integrations based on agreed requirements.
- Develops standard and adhoc reports and data management scripts as requested.
- Ensures that the approved coding standards are consistently applied in every component developed
- Conducts unit testing of developed components based on agreed quality criteria.
- Prepare documentations (User manuals, Technical manuals, deployment instructions, roll back instructions, Issue and Tickets Logs etc) to ensure that they meet set quality criteria for each component.
- Should be able to package the various components of the solutions being developed.
- Participates in quality review meetings for the system
- Provide guidance on to the technical teams.
- Adhere to change control procedures for the systems
- Provide support for post deployment application issues
- Fix systems issues reported through a controlled process.
- Resolves issues arising from Quality Assurance (QA) tests.
- Prepares progress status reports as guided.
- Participate in software quality assurance (UAT) of the software releases.
- Participate in monitoring the application and integrations
- Carry out Software Cost Estimation and Negotiations
- Develop software solutions using J2EE Technologies
- Optimize Database Queries
- Develop Database Procedures and Packages
- Any assignment given as and when directed by management
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in IT or a related field
- Required Training/knowledge in the following
- Database Development or Administration training i.e. Oracle or PostgreSQL
- Training in Application Development languages i.e. Java
- Training in Application and Web servers namely: JBOSS & Tomcat
- Training in business systems analysis techniques and tools: e.g. Enterprise Architect.
- Training in Application Development tools: – Eclipse, MyEclipse, NetBeans
- Database Development or Administration training i.e. MySQL, MS SQL
- Training in Systems modeling and design techniques
- Training in Operating systems namely Linux, Red Hat, Unix
- Knowledge on some software packaging tools e.g. Ant
- Knowledge on software life cycle tools e.g. HP Load Runner
- Training and working knowledge of reports generation tools and data management tools e.g. Jaspersoft, Crystal Reports
- At least 3 years work experience in a busy application development and support environment
Skills required
- Team player
- Results oriented
- Innovative
- Interpersonal skills
- Communication skills
- Analytical skills
- Organizational skills
- Planning Skills
- Documentation and report writing skills
- Problem solving skills
- Negotiation skills
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