Job Description:
Work closely with CEO, COO, and members of the Development Team to both develop detailed specification documents with clear project deliverables and timelines, and to ensure timely completion of deliverables.
Produce project estimates during sales process, including expertise required and total number of development hours required, etc.
Determine appropriate architecture, and other technical solutions, and make relevant recommendations to company. Communicate to the CEO and COO with efficiency and accuracy any progress and/or delays.
Engage in outside-the-box thinking to provide high value-of-service to company.
Alert colleagues to emerging technologies or applications and the opportunities to integrate them into operations and activities.
Establishing a detailed program specification through discussion with clients;
Clarifying what actions the program is intended to perform;
Breaking down program specification into its simplest elements and translating this logic into a programming language; Devising possible solutions to anticipated problems;
Working as part of a team, which may be established purely for a particular project, to write a specific section of the program; Combining all elements of the program design and testing it;
Testing sample data-sets to check that output from the program works as intended;
Conducting testing and installing the program into production;
Reacting to problems and correcting the program as necessary;
Evaluating and increasing the program's effectiveness;
Adapting the program to new requirements, as necessary;
Conducting user acceptance testing to ensure the program can be used easily, quickly and accurately;
Writing detailed documentation for the operation of the program by users and computer operators;
Consulting manuals, periodicals and technical reports to learn new ways to develop programs and maintain existing skills and knowledge;
Updating, repairing, modifying and developing existing software and generic applications.