Nielsen jobs - Software Developer

Job Description

Software Developer - Mumbai

Band: 6.2

Job Purpose

• Nielsen Brandbank Software Developers work collaboratively alongside other development team members, Product Owners & Scrum Masters to realise business goals.
• Working within dedicated domains, the Software Developer - using an incremental delivery approach - is responsible for developing new and existing products by understanding and translating backlog items into solutions.
  
  

Job Responsibilities

• Approach work from an Agile mindset applying practices and principles wherever possible
• Attend and participate in all Sprint events to achieve desired outcomes
• Interact with stakeholders/Product Owner to clarify requirements and provide input into the creation of User Stories
• Responsible for estimation, sprint planning and managing all their own tasks and reporting on progress
• Collaborates closely with all team members to take a shared responsibility for the sprint backlog and the team’s success
• Develops new or amended features, resolves bugs and carries out other tasks as required to realise business goals
• Produces high quality code and takes responsibility for the quality of their own code - writing unit tests and conducting unit testing where applicable
• Maintains broader code quality through peer code reviews
• Assist with live releases in line with the team’s release schedule
• Identify improvement opportunities to improve team processes and agree on actionable improvements
• Provide 2nd/3rd line support within his/her domain environment
  

Role Requirements E=essential, P=preferred

E - Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field of work or equivalent professional qualification or experience

E - Strong hands on technical skills across some or all of the Microsoft Stack and other key technologies:

• .NET (C# preferable)
• MS Azure
• ASP, Web API, WCF, MVC, WPF
• Javascript / Typescript (React preferable)
• SQL Server
• Unit Testing (NUnit, MSTest, Moq)
• GIT
• XML, JSON
  

P - Excited by technology, with up to date understanding of latest technologies

E - Ability to learn new languages and technologies quickly

E - Familiarity and good experience with Agile development methodologies and the complete product lifecycle from inception to delivery

E - Good understanding of software architecture, issues and design

E - Good understanding of data and databases

E - Proven track record or working as part of a team to deliver software solutions to meet customer needs

E - Thorough and detailed approach with the ability to identify appropriate user/business solutions

E - Some experience of code reviews and coding standards

E - Excellent communication skills - both written and verbal

Qualifications

QUALIFICATION

E - Degree qualification (BE or B.Tech) in a relevant field of work or equivalent professional qualification or experience

B.Tech/BE/M.Tec