- Experience in programming and analysis; specialized software package support at the specified experience level
- Ability to collaborate with IT Professionals throughout the Software Development process
- Experience in Agile/Scrum methodology for the development design implementation and maintenance of applications
- Experience in design code test and debugging applications
- Experience in one or more programming languages
- Experience with relational database technologies
- Experience in the use of information retrieval using query languages (e.g. SQL)
- Excellent analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills
Full Stack Skills:
- Proficient with both front-end and back-end development including any associated areas such as database design/management and DevOps
- Design and implementation of the overall solution architecture
- Implementation of approved user interfaces design and deployment of databases
- Ensuring the entire stack is designed and built for speed and scalability
- Design and construction of REST API services
- Integrating Front-End UIs with the constructed APIs
- Supporting the implementationupkeep of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CICD) pipelines
Desirable Skills:
- Knowledge and understanding of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
- Ability to provide system documentation as required
Deliverables:
Work with Business Analysts / UX & UI Designer / Product Manager / Cloud Architect base on storyboard user stories UI/UX artefacts solution architecture security requirements data models develop application design and technical specification document deliver quality software products (including Minimal Viable Products and Cloud-Native Web Application products AODA compliance) as required.
Create object-oriented models in UML as design artefacts using tools such as Power Designer.
Support Quality Assurance & Defect Management including Unit Test Test Automation Penetration / Vulnerability Test Load Test AODA Test system / user test migration test etc.
Construct / enhance / renew web applications using Cloud-Native / PaaS & Java EE application models (e.g. Microservice Architecture API-based model Responsive Web Design Serverless Architecture etc) and industry-leading Open Source frameworks like Angular React / Redux JSON Spring Framework / Spring Boot / Spring MVC Lombok Annotations in addition to Java 1.8 JDK 11 EJB JSP Servlets JDBC JPA XML (DOM SAX XSLT) DHTML/HTML Web Service WebLogic (14) / WebSphere / JBoss / TomCat / WildFly relational hierarchical and NoSQL databases
Provide critical application support (incident investigation troubleshooting interim / long-term fixes maintenance / incremental changes etc) for complex production Java enterprise Applications
Provide Method of Procedure (implementation package) document for production releases where required and operational procedure document for production support staff as required.
Co-ordinate system development activities and provide technical consultative support to other staff members.
Provide knowledge transfer to ministry staff at all stages of this assignment.
Provide post implementation support.
Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Software Developer FS
Experience and Skill Requirements
Microsoft/Azure Development and Quality Assurance Experience - 65%
- Must have
- Entity Framework or other Object-Relational Mapping data access tools
- REST APIs
- REAT and NEXTJS
- JavaScript and TypeScript
- SQL experience
- Knowledgeable in Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) for web application development
o Experience with common React libraries such as Hook Form React Query Zustand etc.
- Nice to have
- Azure SQL
- Responsive Web front-end Web APIs and web services design development and testing
- Unit testing and test automation support (e.g. NUnit XUnit MSTest Karma or Jasmine)
- Microservices and container-based platform development delivery and testing
- JSON
- Rest API SpringBoot.
- Azure Cloud Development including PaaS and SQL services or other cloud hosting technologies.
- Regression testing (manual and automated) including familiarity with web-based QA automation software such as Playwright and supporting the use of such tools via coding techniques
- GIT Azure DevOps (VSTS/TFS)
- CI/CD pipeline setup and management
Agile Delivery Team Experience - 20%
- Experience participating in Scrum Agile development
- Experience contributing as a Developer or Tester (QA) in a balanced team which is comprised of roles including Developers Testers product Management and Design
- Experience participating and contributing to task planning daily stand ups iteration demos and review meetings
- Providing input to development estimates and designs
- Experience working with a team using concurrent development practices including Git-based source control feature branches and DevOps CI/CD pipelines
Business Analysis - 10%
- Experience translating business requirements into software code/implementations
Soft Skills - 5%
- Excellent analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Oral and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Highly developed interpersonal skills