Architect

Architect

Job Location: Cary, NC Job Duration: 3 - 4 Months

Job Description:

Responsible for gathering business requirements and translating them into Internet/Web architecture to achieve business objectives.

Analyzes assigned specifications, planning, designing, and developing solutions, utilizing appropriate Internet/intranet/extranet architecture processes supporting a wide range of content—either individually or in concert with project team members.

Provides appropriate documentation for object design decisions, estimating assumptions, applets, and performance metrics—as required by organization architecture process standards, or as assigned.

Responsible for minimizing the issues between the client and the server applications and for the overall set-up and design of the Internet and Web server architecture.

Impact and complexity of this job increases if an organization is utilizing Internet solutions (versus only intranet), especially those with significant business impact (e.g., e-business).

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or another related field. Or equivalent work experience.

Typically has 7+ years of IT work experience with demonstrated knowledge in architecture design, software development, database management systems and systems integration in multi-platform environments.

Service Virtualization Architect assess, design, develop, build & manage service virtualization assets across multiple test environments using Parasoft Service Virtualize in order to remove downstream, internal and external dependencies from a client's application development and testing processes, reducing cycle time and improving software quality.

We are focused on introducing this capability and driving adoption across the organization as complex programs look to integrate Service Virtualization into the SDLC process.

This resource will provide subject matter expertise and direction on complex projects/initiatives for his/her assigned area(s) of responsibility.

This position will collaborate with business & IT stakeholders to develop innovative technical enablement solutions to remove impediments on items like Test Data, Environment(s) and/or 3rd party systems.

Experience:

8+ Years of experience in software development or played a role as a software engineer in testing that directly aligns with the specific responsibilities for this position.

5+ Years of experience with Service Virtualization tools and projects; and related technical experiences such as Java or Rest API programming.

Practical experience with Agile Scrum and waterfall methodologies.

Experience in architecting, implementing solutions/frameworks for front end and APIs

Adheres to architectural and development best practices, including the proper use of code management, document design, and design artifacts, and conducts design/code reviews.

In-depth experience in SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), Web Services, and messaging systems.

Should have Experienced in API Testing [Specialized in testing and validating XML, XSD, XPath Syntax, Web Services, MQ, REST, SOAP Messaging

Collaborates with testers, developers and architects on collecting requirements, data for service testing and service virtualization.

Creates complex virtualized service models & services.

Provides subject matter expertise to internal stakeholders and technical peers to discuss and resolve business, functional and technical issues.

Experience using Web Service Testing Tools (e.g. Parasofy Virtualize, SoapUI, other WS tools)

Experience with Source Code Management Tools (e.g. Git, TFS, RTC)

Knowledge of containers, virtualizations, and ability to help design and implement computing grids used in testing Selenium

Experience in TDD/BDD approaches and relevant tools such as cucumber.