Software Developer

About the position

IBM Cognos Analytics is a comprehensive business intelligence platform that transforms raw data into actionable insights through advanced reporting, AI-powered analytics, and interactive visualizations. Designed to cater to organizations of all sizes, it offers high-quality, scalable reporting capabilities, enabling users to create and share customized reports efficiently. The platform's intuitive interface allows for seamless exploration of data, uncovering hidden trends and facilitating informed decision-making without the need for advanced technical skills. With robust governance and security features, IBM Cognos Analytics ensures data integrity and confidentiality, making it a trusted solution for businesses aiming to harness the full potential of their data.

Responsibilities

• Develop new features, enhancements, and bug fixes for the Cognos Analytics platform, following best coding practices and design principles.
• Create and integrate User Interfaces, APIs, services, and data connectors that allow the system to interact with various data sources and third-party applications.
• Develop and manage database interactions, ensuring optimal performance and data retrieval processes.
• Implement and follow coding standards, code reviews, and quality control processes to ensure high-quality code.
• Participate in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives. Follow and contribute to Agile practices.
• Actively investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve issues or bugs within the application, including those reported by end-users or QA.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and optimize the performance of Cognos Analytics features.
• Develop and execute unit/integrations tests to ensure individual components of the system function correctly. Write integration tests for system-wide functionality.
• Work closely with other teams, such as product management, business analysts, UX/UI designers, DevOps, SRE, and data engineers, to ensure requirements are understood and solutions meet business needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and devise solutions
• 1-5 years of experience in automated quality engineering / software development / test automation.
• Proficiency in JavaScript, Java, Spring, SQL, RDBMS
• Proficiency in UI automation with Selenium
• Proficiency with shell/bash scripting and Linux/Unix command-line interface
• Proficiency in scripting on Microsoft Visual Studio Code Editor, etc.
• Experience or willingness to learn testing of cloud-native applications
• Understanding of agile development, test management, continuous integration, continuous development environment (CICD) with tools such as: GitHub, Jira, Jenkins etc.
• Other Tools: SSH clients, container technologies (ie: Docker, Podman).
• Ability to work independently in a large matrix organization.
• Troubleshoot and solve customer issues on production deployments

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of Mobile App Testing and Automation frameworks and tools
• Knowledge of Performance Testing and Load Testing tools
• Proficiency in using automated API testing tools.
• Knowledge of programming using Go, C++, C# etc.
• Knowledge of software design patterns, microservices.
• Agile software development methodologies
• Knowledge of CI/CD, Openshift, Kubernetes etc.
• Ability to adapt to and learn new technologies