Associate III - Product Engineering -PYTHON

Develop applications contribute to maintenance and performance optimization by employing design patterns and reusing proven solutions. Account for developmental activities of juniors in the team with some guidance from Product Engineer I

Outcomes:

1. Understand product requirements and user stories from customer discovery process
2. Ensure requirements coverage of complex features with unit test cases
3. Troubleshooting development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms. Provides technical guidance to the team to resolve challenging programming and design problems
4. Create effort estimation and ETA for the deliverables assigned ensure adherence to timelines/SLAs wherever applicable
5. Ensure code coverage and code quality by active participation in code reviews
6. Ensure adherence to the best practices and standards with provision of periodic status updates
7. Execute test cases and prepare release document in line with the requirements
8. Influence and improve customer satisfaction

Measures of Outcomes:

1. 100% adherence to engineering process and standards (coding standards) with minimal or no code review comments w. r. t given guidelines.
2. 100% adherence to project schedule timelines and effort estimation
3. Number of technical issues uncovered during the execution of the project
4. Number of defects in the code
5. Number of defects post delivery
6. Number of noncompliance issues
7. Quarterly/timely completion of mandatory domain/technical certifications

Outputs Expected:

Product Requirements:

1. Understand the functional/ non-functional requirements gathered from stakeholders (Architect
   Product Manager
   Product Lead
   Client) for enhancement
2. Understand new / complex product requirements (functional and non-functional)
3. Seek review inputs from the Architect/Leads and incorporate the same

Product Design and Development:

1. Contribute to product development
   follow SLA and delivery timelines
2. Create POCs to identify the feasibility of new technologies/ products and share the findings with the architecture team for new products
3. Provide technical inputs for product research
   design
   analysis
   testing
   process improvement
   and complex troubleshooting for critical and large projects
4. Provide technical expertise to resolve challenging programming and design problems
5. Participate in code reviews and eliminate implementation problems early in development cycle
6. Seek review inputs from the product specialist
7. Build code per the design document and ensure compliance on defined standards/guidelines.
8. Support the client in user acceptance testing if required
9. Ensure code quality and 100% code coverage.

Product Testing:

1. Review Test Cases / Test Plan; conduct integration testing and resolve defects/bugs

Product Training and Documentation:

1. Provide inputs to technical publications and review documentation of key features
   as required

Product Sign Offs:

1. Resolve existing issues

Project Management:

1. Provide input on the status of the module development to the development lead

Skills/Certifications:

1. Upskill regularly and timely completion of mandatory domain/technical certifications

Skill Examples:

1. Ability to use Domain / Industry Knowledge to independently understand capture the business requirements and fine-tune interact with SME at various stages of the development
2. Ability to use Product Design knowledge to design/implement the business and non-functional requirements
3. Ability to use knowledge of Product Features / Functionality to understand the technical dependency of the product workflow independently analyze the product apply the best practices in own area of work impart training on the various functional modules of the product
4. Ability to design install configure troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines
5. Ability to use Software Design & Development knowledge to develop code per the requirement specifications / user stories independently understand and follow engineering practices. Take technical responsibility for all stages in the software development and review process to ensure all practices are being followed
6. Ability to use UX Knowledge to understand user interface design and implications on product design and development and improve product usability across the user base. Provide necessary input to design team that indicates the user profile/segments and enhanced skiil of users so the appropriate trade-offs can be achieved

Knowledge Examples:

• Domain / Industry Knowledge: Working knowledge of standard business processes within the relevant industry vertical customer business domain
  1. Product Design: Working knowledge of product architecture elements such as client server/SOA based configuration parameters and may specialize in one or more areas
  2. Product Features / Functionality: Working knowledge of the product
  3. Knowledge of Config/Build/Deploy processes and tools
  4. Knowledge of IAAS - Cloud providers (AWS Azure Google etc. ) and their tool sets
  5. Knowledge of the application development lifecycle - agile and waterfall
  6. Knowledge of Quality Assurance processes
  7. Knowledge of Quality Automation processes and tools
  8. User Experience Knowledge: Basic knowledge of aspects that enhance product/systems usability; improving the overall user experience
  
  

  4+ years of experience as a Python Developer with a strong portfolio of projects. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field. In-depth understanding of the Python software development stacks, ecosystems, frameworks and tools such as Numpy, Pandas, sci-kit-learn, Tensorflow and PyTorch. Familiarity with database technologies such as SQL and NoSQL. Excellent problem-solving ability with solid communication and collaboration skills. Knowledge of data science and machine learning concepts and tools. A working understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud or Azure