Requirements Analysis & Problem Solving Skills

• Must be able to thoroughly analyze the requirements submitted by the Project Manager / Coordinator or Client.
• Ensuring that the requirements are complete and can be developed in one go.
• Raising questions when requirements seem to be incomplete or not implementable.
• When presented with an engineering problem, must be able to provide a reasonable and implementable solution for it.
• Must be able to provide accurate timelines for delivery of work assigned. While ensuring Quality of Deliverable and timely deliveries.

Programming skills

• Must have above average programming skills.
• Should be able to implement the logic for any programming problem.
• Must be able to learn and use any new programming language within 2 to 3 weeks max.
• Software Engineering Skills
• Must know how to design database tables and write queries for CRUD operations, Understand normalization and denormalization concepts.
• Must know how to write stored procedures and database functions and understand why and when to use them.
• Must understand how and why version controls systems are used and differences between SVN and GIT.
• Must understand the concepts of debugging and use any debugging tool necessary to find and eliminate bugs.
• Must not rely on QA Engineers to find basic bugs in their deliverables.
• Must test their code and deliverable thoroughly before submitting to QA.
• Must document and update the documentation of complex code / data structures implemented.
• Idea of all basic data structures.
• Idea of all basic sorting and searching algorithms.

Technology Knowledge

• Must know how http works
• Must know how client and server communication works
• Must know the difference between client and server programming
• Must understand the difference between IDEs and Code Editors
• Must understand the difference between HTML / CSS / JS and what is used when and where.
• Must know / understand / learn exactly how web servers work (IIS in-depth working knowledge is a must)

General Requirements

• Must be able to learn and use any software technology needed within an acceptable timeframe.
• Must have above-average communication skills.
• Must be available 24/7 for emergency situations.
• Must communicate to seniors when stuck in a programming/engineering problem for more than a few hours.
• Must be available on what's app and email 24/7.
• Must have detailed knowledge on at least 1 programming language, platform and IDE.
• Must be willing to learn whatever skill and / or technology is needed to ensure Quality of Work and Timely deliverables.