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Associate Java Developer
Entertainment & Media Industry Company
Bloomington, MN, United States
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Description
Company VUE (Company website) is the global leader in computer-based testing for information technology, academic, government and professional testing programs around the world. Company VUE provides a full suite of services from test development to data management, and delivers exams through the world’s most comprehensive and secure network of test centers in more than 180 countries, where we validate the skills and knowledge of millions of individuals every year.
Company VUE is a business of Company, the world's leading learning company with global-reach and market-leading businesses. Company is listed on both the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO).
Company is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and a member of E-verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Associate Java Developer
As an Associate Java Software Developer, you will be responsible for analysis, design, implementation, and unit testing in a high-performing, experienced team. You will use industry best practices while producing high-quality full stack solutions in a collaborative, agile, results driven environment across a diverse set of business areas: client management, channel technologies, results processing, and incidents management. You will also be responsible for maintaining and supporting mission-critical applications as necessary. In this role you will be expected to continually grow, junior software developers, and contribute to process improvement activities. Highly collaborative team continually working on a variety of complex and challenging projects.
The Software Developer will:
• Implement & Perform -- Implement designs following Company coding standards and industry best practices; maintain and support mission-critical applications as necessary.
• Analyze & Design -- Ensure business and requirements artifacts are created that effectively model the customer's requirements. Use tooling and best practices to create design models from requirements.
• Review -- Participate in requirement, design and code reviews
• Test & Deployment -- Work closely with other teams (e.g., QA, configuration management, end users) to release high quality software. Create testable requirements and write and execute unit tests.
• Quality/process improvement -- Participate in group improvement activities and initiatives to improve process and product quality in pursuit of excellence
• Reporting -- Complete project documentation as required, including logging status, risk, progress, and effort on assigned work
• Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Required Education & Experience:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology experience
• 1+ years minimum Java development required
• 1+ years programmatic interaction with relational database systems
• Current technology stack: Java, JPA, Hibernate, Web Services (REST/SOAP), AngularJS
• Experience in OOAD, design patterns, SQL and UML
• 1+ years Agile experience
Desired Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
• Experience in creating design documents, performing code reviews and test driven development
• Desire to expand knowledge in many development languages, applications, and tools
• Proven ability to quickly learn new processes and tools, business domains and technical applications
• Ability to think technically and analytically
• Ability to understand philosophy of architecture
• Must assimilate information, distill knowledge, apply experience and provide solution alternatives and recommendations
• Must have strong time management skills - including ability to work well under pressure, plan, set priorities, adapt to change, and meet established timelines
• Must develop effective relationships with internal and external contacts and work well within a team
• Must be a self-starter and detail-oriented
• Must have a positive and energetic demeanor
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Creative problem-solving skills
Experience with some or all of the following tools (Required):
• Java SE AND EE (1 years)
• Spring framework (1 years)
• Web Services (1 years)
• REST services (1 years)
• SQL (1 years)
• JBOSS OR Tomcat (1 years)
• AngularJS (and other Javascript frameworks)
• OOAD design
• Agile development (1 years)
• Design patterns
Experience with some or all of the following tools (Desired):
• JPA
• RabbitMQ or JMS
• Hibernate
• SOA
• Swing
• Gauge and Selenium
• Splunk
• New Relic