Graduate Engineer Trainee QA

Job description

**Our story**

At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people.

At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to “Be Alight.”

**Our Values:**

**Champion People** – be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs.

**Grow with purpose –** Be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives.

**Be Alight –** act with integrity, be real and empower others.

It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose.

Alight helps clients gain a benefits advantage while building a healthy and financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, absence management and navigation.

With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.

Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight.

Learn more at careers.alight.com (https://careers.alight.com/us/en) .

**Major Opportunities and Decisions:** (Describe the more difficult and/or complex challenges or opportunities and decisions faced in doing work, improving processes or meeting customer needs.)

**Project Planning, Tracking, & Reporting**

+ Contribute into the initial coding estimates.

+ Support the team in project planning activities and in evaluating risks.

+ Communicate regularly with the team about development changes, scheduling, and status.

**Design**

+ Understand assigned detailed (LLD) design and do code development

**Development & Support**

+ Work with the team to clarify and improve the design as required.

+ Build the code of high-priority and complex systems according to the technical specifications, detailed design, maintainability, and coding and efficiency standards.

+ Use code management processes and tools to avoid versioning problems.

+ Ensure that the code does not affect the functioning of any external or internal systems.

**Testing & Debugging**

+ Write and execute the unit test cases and test each piece to verify the basic functionality before comprehensive testing.

+ Debug and resolve any project, code, or interface-level problems.

+ Fix function testing issues.

+ Test high priority and high complexity functionality/issues with support as needed

**Documentation**

+ Create documentation for the code as per defined standards and processes.

+ Work on peer review feedback of the technical documentation for the code as per defined standards and processes

**Process Management**

+ Adhere to the project and support processes.

+ Adhere to best practices and comply with approved policies, procedures, and methodologies, such as the SDLC cycle for different project sizes.

+ Participate in route cause analysis

**Principal Accountabilities:** (In order of importance, write a brief sentence describing each task which is performed to accomplish the position’s objective.

In addition, identify percent of time normally spent and whether the task is an essential or minor function)

The above description includes most significant duties performed.

However, other occasional work assignments not mentioned are assumed to be included.

Management reserves the right to assign and/or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.

**Skills and Knowledge:** (Identify core competencies, key specialties, technical, and knowledge areas necessary to accomplish responsibilities and desired end results)

Competencies/Skills: Individual Contributor Competencies

Skills:

+ Proficient in at least one of the following

+ C#

+ Asp.Net Core, Web Forms, Web APIs, Asp.Net MVC

+ HTML/CSS/JavaScript/TypeScript

+ Angular

+ T-SQL

+ Strong understanding of OOPS concepts

+ Experience with

+ Various common JavaScript libraries

+ Responsive design

+ Creating and consuming web services, Web API, or WCF

+ Secure website design and development

+ Application architecture and design patterns

+ MS SQL Server

+ Writing Stored Procedures, triggers, functions, designing db schema

+ Proficiency with code versioning tool like Git

+ Entity Framework

+ Creating interfaces for communication between different applications

+ Nice to have

+ Experience with Visual Studio 2019/2022

+ Experience with SQL Server 2016/2019/2022

+ Experience with automated unit testing and integration testing

+ Experience with graceful degradation and/or progressive enhancement websites.

+ Strong understanding of XML and JSON

+ Familiarity with Continuous Integration

+ Familiarity with AWS cloud services(SQS,S3,SNS, ECS etc)

Knowledge:

+ 1 - 3 Years of experience in analyzing and understanding application storyboards andor use cases and develop functional application modules

+ Come up with approaches for a given problem statement

+ Design, build and maintain efficient and reusable C#.net core code

+ Design, build and maintain Microsoft .Net Web based applications

+ Fix identified defects or observations that are potential impacts or risks for the functionality

+ Ensure best possible performance and quality of the application using project and standard best practices

+ Help maintain code quality using project quality standard (or using tools)

+ Design and develop web user interfaces (good to know frameworks such as bootstrap)

+ Debug and Troubleshoot problems in existing code

+ Develop unit test cases and perform unit testing

+ Work on creating database tables, stored procedures, functions etc

+ Coordinate with AGILE team

+ Maintain updates to JIRA with the latest changes and appropriate status.

**Education and Experience:** (Identify types and length of education and experience needed to acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to accomplish the desired end results)

Education: B E Computers, IT /MCA / MSc IT, Computer Science

Experience: 0-1 Years of experience in analyzing and understanding application storyboards andor use cases and develop functional application modules.

**_Alight requires all virtual interviews to be conducted on video._**

**Benefits**

We offer programs and plans for a healthy mind, body, wallet and life because it’s important our benefits care for the whole person.

Options include a variety of health coverage options, wellbeing and support programs, retirement, vacation and sick leave, maternity, paternity & adoption leave, continuing education and training as well as several voluntary benefit options.

By applying for a position with Alight, you understand that, should you be made an offer, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with Alight’s employment policies.

Background checks may include some or all the following based on the nature of the position: SSN/SIN validation, education verification, employment verification, and criminal check, search against global sanctions and government watch lists, credit check, and/or drug test.

You will be notified during the hiring process which checks are required by the position.

**Our commitment to Inclusion**

We celebrate differences and believe in fostering an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported.

We know that diverse teams are stronger, more innovative, and more successful.

At Alight, we welcome and embrace all individuals, regardless of their background, and are dedicated to creating a culture that enables every employee to thrive.

Join us in building a brighter, more inclusive future.

As part of this commitment, Alight will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process.

If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact alightcareers@alight.com .

**Equal Opportunity Policy Statement**

Alight is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against anyone based on sex, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital or domestic partner status, citizenship, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics or conduct covered by federal, state, or local law.

In addition, we take affirmative action to employ, disabled persons, disabled veterans and other covered veterans.

Alight provides reasonable accommodations to the known limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants for employment with disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs, practices and observances, unless doing so would result in undue hardship.

Applicants for employment may request a reasonable accommodation/modification by contacting their recruiter.

**Authorization to work in the Employing Country**

Applicants for employment in the country in which they are applying (Employing Country) must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the Employing Country and with Alight.

Note, this job description does not restrict management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.

We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.

**DISCLAIMER:**

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.

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