Software Developer jobs in Canada

Assists with Analysis & Design:

• The Software Developer I assists more senior IT staff with the following duties:
• Uses prototyping or other simulation techniques to evaluate and confirm requirements.
• Creates and applies analysis documents (e.g. models) as per departmental standards, guidelines, and practices to document the structure and function of systems.
• Creates and applies design documents (e.g. models) as per departmental standards, guidelines, and practices to document and refine the structure and function of systems.
• Analyzes the requirements for purchased software to determine how it should be configured and customized.
• Prepares software specifications for development staff.
• Participates in quality assurance activities, such as reviews.

Assists with Construction:

• The Software Developer I assists more senior IT staff with the following duties:
• Creates, modifies, and assembles program code to meet requirements and specifications.
• Configures and customizes purchased software.
• Tests applications to ensure requirements are met.
• Produces documentation.
• Applies appropriate programming methods and adheres to standards.
• Participates in quality assurance activities, such as reviews.

Assists with Support and Maintain Business Applications:

• The Software Developer I assists more senior IT staff with the following duties:
• Provides technical support for existing Computer Applications, which includes problem analysis/resolution, performance tuning, and handling requests from other functional areas within the WCB.
• Works with software vendors to resolve problems with their products.
• Monitors application performance, availability, reliability, and security.
• Provides technical expertise to IT and other WCB staff in the use of application development technology and tools.
• Applies appropriate programming methods and adheres to standards.
• Meets published Service Level Agreements and other targets.

Quality Assurance and Control:

• Creates and maintains test documentation as per standards and guidelines.
• Identifies test strategy for projects.
• Identifies test scope, tests, procedures for projects.
• Plans, prepares data, performs, and verifies unit, integration, system, performance, scalability, benchmark, and user acceptance testing.
• Reviews work products and ensures standards and guidelines are adhered to.

Performs other duties as assigned.