Senior Developer

Job Description

Top Skills:

1. Must have at least 5 years of .NET C# development experience in an Agile environment

2. Must have experience mentoring and training more junior developers and be comfortable in that type of role

3. Must have experience with continuous integration

Description:

Our client, a large government integrator, is looking to hire a Senior .NET Developer to join their team supporting a government contract in Stafford, VA. Qualified candidates will have at least 10 years of .NET development experience and will be eligible to obtain a DOJ Public Trust clearance.

The primary functions for this position include:

Design, develop, enhance, debug, and implement software using MS Visual Studio for C#.NET

Troubleshoot problems related to software applications; resolve systems integration and compatibility issues

Support software testing as required, including developing automated test scripts using NUnit, SpecFlow, and other automation tools

Interact with required stakeholders including business analysts, testers, infrastructure managers, and PM team

Support continuous innovation by implementing the best practices to improve technology tools and processes to increase team efficiency and technical execution

Verify development efforts are in accordance with defined standards

Contribute to deliverables and performance metrics where applicable

Required Skills:

US Citizen and ability to pass a public trust investigation

5+ years software development experience using C# and .NET

SQL Server 2008 R2 or greater, T-SQL stored procedures, views, etc.

Familiarity with writing unit tests and their role in a Continuous Integration environment

Experience with Continuous Integration tools (such as TeamCity (preferred), Jenkins or Hudson)

Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills required

Strong attention to detail, highly developed critical thinking skills, and solid trouble shooting ability

Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) certification; required within 6 months of starting on the contract

Desired Skills:

Working knowledge of WinForms, WPF, WCF, Entity Framework, VB.NET, C++, XML, LINQ, SQL Database platform, MSBuild PowerShell, InstallShield

Understanding of engineering modeling languages, such as ER diagrams, UML Sequence diagrams or other engineering artifacts

Agile/scrum development experience

Experience writing and reviewing automated test scripts

Familiarity with automated testing frameworks such as nUnit, SpecFlow

Familiarity with Requirements Management tools such as TFS

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

This person will be working in a Scrum team of 8-9 people. The Scrum teams are made up of 3-4 developers, a tester, and a BA. This person will be working very closely with this team and will need to be comfortable collaborating.