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Caterpillar Recruitment

Job Role: Software Engineer

Qualification: Bachelors / Masters Degree

Experience: 0-1 years 

Batch: 2025 / 2024 / 2023 / 2022

Salary: up to ₹12 LPA

Job Location: Bangalore

Last Date: ASAP

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About the role

Performs implementation, regular problem solving, maintenance and support for a agile software development.

Responsibilities

• Designing, modifying, developing, writing and implementing software programming applications for target system using agile methods.
• Acquiring client requirements; resolving workflow problems through automation optimization.
• Writing source codes for new applications, and/or generating and enhancing code samples for existing applications.
• Utilizing automated testing tools to perform the testing and maintenance.

Skill Descriptors

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

Level Working Knowledge:

•    Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.
•    Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.
•    Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.
•    Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.
•    Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

Level Working Knowledge:

•    Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
•    Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
•    Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
•    Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
•    Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

Software Development: Knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.

Level Extensive Experience:

•    Conducts walkthroughs and monitors effectiveness and quality of the development activities.
•    Elaborates on multiple-development toolkits for traditional and web-based software.
•    Has participated in development of multiple or large software products.
•    Contrasts advantages and drawbacks of different development languages and tools.
•    Estimates and monitors development costs based on functional and technical requirements.
•    Provides consulting on both selection and utilization of developers’ workbench tools.

Software Development Life Cycle: Knowledge of software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace.

Level Working Knowledge:

•    Describes similarities and differences of life cycle for new product development vs. new release.
•    Identifies common issues, problems, and considerations for each phase of the life cycle.
•    Works with a formal life cycle methodology.
•    Explains phases, activities, dependencies, deliverables, and key decision points.
•    Interprets product development plans and functional documentation.

Software Integration Engineering: Knowledge of software integration processes and functions; ability to design, develop and maintain interfaces and linkage to alternative platforms and software packages.

Level Working Knowledge:

•    Has experience with designing data exchange interfaces to and from software product.
•    Describes tools and techniques for extraction, transformation and loading of electronic data.
•    Cites examples of common linkage requirements for software products and vendors.
•    Works with integrating software into the customer or partner framework and infrastructure.
•    Participates in the development of technology interfaces and bridges.

Software Product Design/Architecture: Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into the software product design.

Level Basic Understanding:

•    Identifies basic design methods and design tools.
•    Identifies major components of functional and technical design.
•    Cites examples of good and bad designs.
•    Describes tasks, activities, deliverables and key concerns of technical design.

Software Product Technical Knowledge: Knowledge of technical aspects of a software products; ability to design, configure and integrate technical aspects of software products.

Level Working Knowledge:

•    Maintains and utilizes data related to install base configurations and environments.
•    Solicits customer feedback; reports and monitors bugs and implementation issues.
•    Participates in defining and conducting technical acceptance tests.
•    Participates in creating technical requirements for software development and deployment.
•    Explains basic environment and product configuration options.

Software Product Testing: Knowledge of software product testing; ability to design, plan, and execute testing strategies and tactics to ensure software product quality and adherence to stated requirements.

Level Working Knowledge:

•    Participates in test readiness reviews, functional, volume, and load testing.
•    Describes key features and aspects of a specific testing discipline or methodology.
•    Tests software components for compliance with functional requirements and design specifications.
•    Explains procedures for documenting test activities and results (e.g. errors, non-conformance, etc.)
•    Conducts functional and performance testing on aspects of assigned products.

Strong understanding and/or experience in many of the following:

•    AWS environment such as Lambda functions, SQS, EC2, S3, ECR, ECS, Cloud Front, Cloud Formation, API Gateway, ALB etc.
•    Frontend development with React JS
•    Unit testing frameworks for Python, Java and React such as Junits, Pytest, unittest, Jest, Mocha
•    Datastores such as PostgreSQL, MySQL.
•    Development and integration of REST APIs. Authentication and Authorization such as OAuth 2.0, JWT, Bearer Tokens, API Keys, etc.
•    SSO, cookies and session management, etc.
•    API security header, data encryption, rate limiting, input validation, etc.
•    API tools such as Swagger, Postman, Apigee, JMeter, etc.
•    Container Platforms and Orchestration such as Docker, ECR, Kubernetes, etc.
•    Git repositories, code versioning, development and integration of CI/CD pipelines, etc.