Senior Principal Software Engineer - IT

• Designs, codes, tests, debugs and documents software according to Dell s systems quality standards, policies and procedures
• Analyzes business needs and creates software solutions
• Responsible for preparing design documentation
• Prepares test data for unit, string and parallel testing
• Evaluates and recommends software and hardware solutions to meet user needs
• Resolves customer issues with software solutions and responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements
• Works with business and development teams to clarify requirements to ensure testability
• Drafts, revises, and maintains test plans, test cases, and automated test scripts
• Executes test procedures according to software requirements specifications Logs defects and makes recommendations to address defects
• Retests software corrections to ensure problems are resolved
• Documents evolution of testing procedures for future replication
• May conduct performance and scalability testing

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Plans, conducts and manages assignments generally involving large, high budgets (cross- functional) projects or more than one project
• Assists in creating the strategic technical and architectural direction to the programming function
• Serves as point of contact between IT and key business users senior leadership in defining IT solution based on business needs
• Drives changes in architecture, methodology or programming procedures
• Performs estimation efforts on the most complex projects and tracks progress
• Obtains detailed specification from business users and development to ascertain specific output information requirements
• Prepares detailed plans for managing cross-testing team dependencies
• Serves as the testing consultant to leader in the IT organization and functional user groups
• Mentors team members on all aspects of testing concepts