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Senior Software Developer - Security
Pearson
Bloomington, MN, United States
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Description
As the global leader in electronic testing, Pearson VUE (www.pearsonvue.com) validates the skills and knowledge of millions of individuals every year. Our customers’ high-stakes certification, licensure, admissions and other credentialing exams help people advance in technology, government and professional careers, as well as attain educational growth. Pearson VUE offers proctored exams through the world's largest network of test centers in addition to testing in online and unproctored environments.
In addition to helping our clients develop, manage, deliver and grow their programs, we work diligently to ensure that their candidates have a positive testing experience. Our focus on employees has fueled sustained growth even in a down economy and has earned Pearson VUE recognition from the Minneapolis Star Tribune as a “Top Workplace” numerous times in recent years.
Pearson VUE is a business of Pearson, the world's leading learning company with global-reach and market-leading businesses. Pearson is listed on both the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com.
Pearson 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.
The Senior Software Developer is responsible for analysis, design, implementation, and unit testing to produce high-quality code for a project team responsible for supporting a number of test driver platforms. They will use industry best practices while working in a team of high-performing professionals. They are also responsible for maintaining and supporting mission-critical applications as necessary. Software developers are expected to mentor associate software developers and continually contribute to process improvement activities.
This requisition is to recruit a staff member for the Test Security team, which supports the roadmap of deliverables for security features across Pearson VUE’s suite of automation. We are looking for outstanding candidates, preferably with some previous experience with security related projects, to bolster the staff of this critical project.
Team:
The Pearson VUE development team is comprised of a group of inspired developers that thrive on developing cutting edge applications, with a passion for innovation and pride in producing excellent user experiences. Our work environment is collaborative, casual, flexible, agile and results driven. Since the business provides a mission-critical service to a demanding set of clients, high-quality performance is required to meet customer expectations.
The Senior Software Developer will:
• Implement & Maintain - Implement designs following Pearson 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 and lead requirement, design and code reviews
• Test & Deployment - Work closely with other teams (e.g., QA, other development teams, 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
• People development – Mentor and train new team members
• Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Required Experience:
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology discipline
• 7+ years relevant software development experience creating business applications with relational database systems
• 5+ years of Java development required
Desired Experience:
• 1+ years experience working in agile environment
• Desire to expand knowledge in many development languages, applications, and tools
• Quickly learn new processes and tools, business domains and technical applications
• Able 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 be a self-starter and detail-oriented
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work within a team
• Experience with projects navigating the security space. General understanding of software and data security principles.
Experience with some or all of the following tools is ideal for the successful candidate:
• Java 7+ SE AND EE (Servlets, JPA)
• Spring Core and Spring Security
• JBoss
• RESTful Web Services
• JQuery Javascript library
• AngularJS Javascript library / MV*
• CSS/HTML/Javascript
• Hibernate/JPA
• SQL Server
• Build Frameworks: Gradle and Ant
• IntelliJ IDE
• Proguard obfuscator
• CORBA
• Swing
• JUnit & Mockito
• Git source control
• Networking, sockets, TLS, HTTP
• Encryption methods and standards
Experience with some or all of the following tools would be a bonus for the successful candidate:
• Gauge Test Automation
• Excelsior JET Compiler
• Build Frameworks: Grunt
• Perforce source control
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