Software Engineer III

Position: Software Engineer III 

Job Location: 811 Excellence Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716 

Duties: Coordinates, completes, and oversees job-related activities and assignments by developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders; supporting plans and initiatives to meet customer and business needs; identifying and communicating goals and objectives; building accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; identifying and addressing improvement opportunities; and demonstrating adaptability and promoting continuous learning. Requirement And Scoping Analysis: understand the Business/Stakeholder/Technical requirements and assist in analyzing the existing solutions to address the needs (in case of agile methodology, for the iteration). Prepare requirement traceability matrix and maintain traceability between business requirements, functional requirements, design and test cases. Contribute to the creation of user stories for component/module/simple requirements (for example: based on scalability etc.) (For agile methodology). Coding: create/configure minimalistic code for entire component/application and ensure the components are meeting business/technical requirements, non-functional requirements, low-maintainability, high-availability and high-scalability needs. Assist in the selection of appropriate languages (E.g. JavaScript, Python, C# etc.), development standards and tools (E.g. Monday.com, Linx, Embold etc.) for software coding/configuration. Take the initiative to learn the fundamentals of different coding languages and frameworks that would be useful for future scope of work. Build scripts for automation of repetitive and routine tasks in CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery), Testing or any other process (as applicable). Implement telemetry features as required independently. Ensure security policy requirements are properly applied to components/application during code development/configuration. Testing: map the customer requirements in to test objectives. Identify and create test cases for the component/module. Execute test cases to test the code and detect errors and defects for the entire component. Execute different types of testing using appropriate testing tools based on the testing needs. Defect Management and Troubleshooting: track and analyze defects for the component/ module and carry out regression testing to fix defects in all instances of code changes. Analyze defects from past projects/solutions to avoid recurrence of similar defects. Troubleshoot performance and availability bottlenecks for the application DevOps Orientation: conduct complex maintenance procedures for applications independently. Monitor and evaluate the performance of the application by tracking and analyzing appropriate metrics; Perform maintenance (corrective, adaptive, perfective) and re-engineering activities. Analyze application logs, maintenance activity data, performance data and provide analysis; Evaluate change requests to identify those which are valid and feasible. Program Monitoring: ensure adherence to the project against approved milestones and timelines. 

Minimum education and experience required: Master's degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or a related field; OR Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or a related field, plus 2 years of experience in software engineering or related experience. 

Skills required: Must have experience with: Designing and implementing REST API automation using Java with Cucumber and Serenity BDD. Developing test automation frameworks with Selenium WebDriver for UI and backend testing. Building and testing microservices using Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Spring Cloud, and Spring Security. Performing REST API testing and mocking using Postman and Swagger. Integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins. Web automation using Selenium WebDriver with Java, C#, and Maven, Mobile testing and element identification using Appium Inspector. Validating message flows in distributed systems using Apache Kafka. Tracking tasks, bugs, and test plans using JIRA and documenting in Confluence. Applying Agile/Scrum methodology for test planning, execution, and team collaboration. Scripting and backend support on UNIX/Linux systems. Unit and integration testing using JUnit, Mockito, and HTML. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills. 

  Rate of pay: $90,000.00 - 180,000.00/year 

Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.