Software Engineer II

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Job Description

ESS integrates predictive data and analytics into valuable business decisions that provide greater insight into decision performance and helps companies keep pace with changing business priorities. By applying expert consulting, analytical tools, software and systems to convert data into valuable business decisions. Our expertise spans a variety of industries and we provide software to some of the world’s largest finance, telcos and other blue-chip companies. The crown jewel in our software suite is PowerCurve which provides best-in-class decisioning applied across the whole customer lifecycle from customer acquisition to in-life and collections, as well as in fraud detection and identity resolution systems. PowerCurve is able to execute on hosted and cloud platforms. Experian Decision Analytics has created an opportunity in the Malaysian office to recruit a Software Engineer to join the Global Product Development Team. 

What you’ll be doing

• Interacts with the Product Owner/Business Analyst to define, refine, develop, test and deliver against functional requirements 

• Understands and translates functional into technical requirements 

• Works with an architecture team to design the components of the product suite 

• Provides input to the project delivery plan, including sizing and estimation if required, with regards to one’s areas of responsibility 

• Coordinates the work within the boundaries of their teams and project

• Being accountable for the quality of one’s team and supporting through code review processes and testing strategies as a whole-team approach 

• Implements correct, performant and reliable code on schedule and according to specification 

• Determines code quality and test coverage, and designing and implementing tests to make sure software is built to the highest quality possible 

• Develops and maintains test automation efficiency and effectiveness 

• Understands DevOps practices and processes. Develop and improve operational practices and procedures.

• Support developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines 

• Ensure close collaboration between Development and Operations, enabling smoother operation between them.

• Responsible for defect closure and root cause analysis to avoid regressions 

• Drives continual improvement in quality and efficiency, including defect prevention/ root cause analysis, suggesting and adopting improvements to technology and efficiency 

• Collaborates and partners across different departments including support, consulting, product management, and engineering 

• Writes technical documentation for internal or external consumption, for developers of varying skills level 

Qualifications

• Candidate must ideally possess at least a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Information Technology, Engineering (Computer/Telecommunication) or numerical discipline with strong computing background

• Strong programming, troubleshooting, analytical & problem-solving skills

• A strong understanding of process and methodologies that drive scalable software development and software testing 

• Strong communication, organisational & interpersonal skills

• Experience of working in cross functional teams

• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast moving and challenging (and somewhat ambiguous) environment 

• Understand and familiar with good Java design, Webswing technology and Software Engineering processes/methods such as:

• Architecture design 

• Design Patterns

• Expertise in refactoring

• Agile methodologies (Lean, Scrum, Kanban, etc.) 

• CI/CD, DevOps and Test Automation

• TDD – Test Driven Development, BDD – Behavioral Driven Development

• Automated unit testing (e.g. JUnit) 

• Automated functional testing (e.g. TestNG, QF Test Cucumber, Selenium) 

• Mocking Framework (e.g. JMockit, Mockito, WireMock) 

• Familiar with Open Source tools & Frameworks, including but not limited to Ajax, Spring, JSF, Ant, Subversion, Maven, CruiseControl, Hibernate/JPA, Junit, JMS, SOAP, Axis, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Ansible and Cucumber

• Understand and have working experience in cloud technology – AWS, Kubernetes and Openshift

• 3 - 5 years of experience in a similar or closely related role is expected to demonstrate competency 

Additional Information

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