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Software Engineer - PHP, Python & Javascript

Keysight Technologies
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1 year ago
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Overview Keysight is on the forefront of technology innovation, delivering breakthroughs and trusted insights in electronic design, simulation, prototyping, test, manufacturing, and optimization. Our ~15, employees create world-class solutions in communications, 5G, automotive, energy, quantum, aerospace, defense, and semiconductor markets for customers in over countries. Learn more about what we do. Our powerful, award-winning culture embraces a bold vision of where technology can take us and a passion for tackling challenging problems with industry-first solutions. Diversity, equity & inclusion are integral parts of our culture and drivers of innovation at Keysight. We believe that when people feel a sense of belonging, they can be more creative, innovative, and thrive at all points in their careers. About the Team: Keysight Eggplant helps businesses to test, monitor and analyze their end-to-end customer experience across different interfaces, platforms, browsers, and devices — including mobile, IoT, and desktop — in agile, DevOps, and innovative application and data environments. Eggplant’s customers use Eggplant automation suites to assure the quality of their applications through UI test automation. Eggplant’s Fusion Engine team maintains Eggplant’s test automation engine, allowing our customers to test any system through the eyes of a human. About the Job: We are seeking a Software Engineer with strong full stack software development experience who is passionate about creating world-class software. We deliver both packaged software for on-premise installation as well as hosted SAAS product leveraging AWS cloud services to provide on demand infrastructure. You will have the opportunity to influence the technical decisions working closely with more engineers and your Team Lead. The successful candidate will be responsible for helping to design and implement multiple frontend and backend services as an essential part of the overall vision for our offering. Responsibilities Responsibilities: Working as a Software Engineer alongside other highly skilled, cross-discipline team members to deliver the team’s goals consistently on schedule and on quality. Work with the Team Lead and Product Manager to ensure that new features work as expected, in a way that provides value to the customer. Design and implement new capabilities across Eggplant’s emerging Monitoring and Digital Automated Intelligence (DAI) product. Ensuring products and components integrate well to provide a platform for an exceptional user experience. Helping to determine the best technologies and strategies to use. Motivating in curiosity, design and delivery of product enhancements and new innovative solutions. Provide input to the design and development process to improve testability, quality and user experience. Identify and raise issue reports for bugs. Supporting maintenance of existing SaaS service in the AWS cloud platform Qualifications Basic Qualifications: Bachelors degree in a technical field. Minimum 3+ years of experience in a software development role. A good understanding of Software Engineering gained through relevant experience. Knowledge of OOP, design patterns and coding best practices. Good design and problem-solving skills. Experience in software architecture. Strong knowledge of current web technologies particularly PHP, Python, and Angular, ReactJS Experience of developing for the AWS cloud platform Solid knowledge of Agile, Lean and XP development practices Desired Qualifications: Experience using Jenkins or Gitlab for build pipelines. Docker container development with Kubernetes orchestration. Experience with blue/green deployment, canarying and feature flagging. Relational database experience. Experience of continuous delivery. Careers Privacy StatementKeysight is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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