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Sr. Software Developer - Online Proctoring
Pearson
Boston, MA, United States
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Description
Pearson VUE (www.pearsonvue.com) is the global leader in computer-based testing for information technology, academic, government and professional testing programs around the world. Pearson 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.
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).
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.
Position Summary
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 the Online Proctored platform. 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 part of the Test Development and Delivery team, which supports the Online Proctored portion of Pearson VUE’s core business. One of the team’s primary responsibilities is supporting a software platform that allows candidates to take an exam while being watched remotely by a proctor. We are now in the midst of building our next generation candidate application which has strong organizational interest and momentum. We are looking for outstanding candidates 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 & Perform - 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, 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
• Participate in on-call rotation for production support
• Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Required Experience:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology discipline
• 5+ years relevant software development experience creating business applications
• 1+ years experience with a MVC Web framework (Rails, Django/Flask, Node)
• 1+ years experience using Javascript frameworks - AngularJS / JQuery
• Experience working with cloud based applications
• Experience with development, maintenance, and testing of JavaScript
• Experience with highly available, highly concurrent web-based applications
Desired Experience:
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with Docker
• Experience with Git
• Java development experience
• 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
• Strong written and verbal skills to communicate with clarity and brevity to other professionals, including software developers, program management, product management, business analysts, etc
Experience with some or all of the following tools is considered a bonus:
• Backbone/Polymer Javascript library / MV*
• Hibernate
• Gradle / Ant / Build Frameworks
• Selenium Web Driver / Gauge UI Automation
• Streaming Media
• GoLang
• Redis
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