Job Opportunity in SAS Institute Inc (SAS R&D India)

Sunday, August 9, 2009

  SAS Institute Inc (SAS India) is hiring  Software Professionals.

Software Manager - Usability-09001579

Description

 

Software Manager - Usability

  • Provides leadership as appropriate for projects; trains and guides activities of team members
  • Determines resource needs and makes requests for personnel, equipment, and other resources
  • Interviews and hires new employees as required
  • Administers and executes policies and procedures that typically affect team members.
  • Recommends decisions on personnel issues
  • Organizes and prioritizes group responsibilities/objectives in light of division, and corporate goals; guides employees accordingly. Ensures that projects are completed on time following established procedures and schedules.
  • Encourages and fosters individual professional growth, as well as teamwork among employees.
  • Sets performance standards and performs ongoing performance feedback to employees;.
  • Defines & implements Learning & Development plans for team members
  • Mentors new hires.
  • Focuses usability activities on cross-product design issues. Reviews usability work and gives feedback to usability analysts
  • Works directly on projects as needs dictate and time permits in order to achieve assigned goals
  • Liaison on internal basis with tem members and development managers.
  • Liaison normally involves specific phases of a project.
  • External contact usually involves software demonstrations or paper presentations.
  • Liaison with Cary Usability directors for work allocation and global standards/guidelines
  • Communicates group activities to management regularly. Represents the group's interest at meetings
  • Involves management in major decisions
  • Regularly contributes to corporate-wide usability initiatives by actively participating in usability community meetings and presentations
  • Works with marketing and development to put functional requirements into context via use cases.
  • Works in cross functional teams to translate functional requirements into system design.
  • Designs, develops, and documents high level and detailed storyboards, mockups and/or prototypes to effectively communicate designs.
  • Runs designs reviews, usage walkthroughs, and usability tests with key stakeholders and representative users to validate designs.
  • Works on multiple products and/or technologies supporting multiple products with expanded scope of influence.
  • Defines task flow for complex problems and for interaction across multiple products.
  • Gains deep understanding of users, and familiarity with technology.
  • Integrates user data from various sources, such as sales and marketing, into design work.
  • Influences product or business goals based on usability research and broad domain and/or technical knowledge. Adjusts usability strategy during development to match changing needs, resources, opportunities, and business goals. Reviews work of usability team members. Collaborates with UI and development management on staffing levels for product area.
  • Gains a broad knowledge of usability methods and their costs and benefits. Integrates usability conclusions with other information (market research, technology) to influence product direction.
  • Develops deep expertise in a usability method, tool, or application domain. Makes a conference presentation. Chairs internal discussion group for cross-product usability topic.

Qualifications

 

Education & Experience

  • Bachelor's degree in Commercial Arts, Fine Arts or Design. Post graduation in Design will be preferred.
  • Minimum eight years of related experience, with minimum 2-3 years in management role.

Job

 Software R&D

Primary Location

India Research & Development

Organization

 SAS Asia Pacific

 

 

Senior Performance Tester-09001557

Description

 

Role :     

  • Independently Plan, design, develop, execute and analyse performance tests of enterprise scale BI applications..
  • Mentoring/guiding of junior members in the team on all aspects of performance testing
  • Work on multiple projects
  • Able to prioritise tasks according business need
  • Review system architecture and give the feedback
  • Interact independently with Cary directors and counterparts
  • Build relationships with Product Managers/Cary counterparts who help achieve performance goals through configuration and tuning assistance.
  • Interact directly with developers/programmers to test application / program code during development to ensure software quality and functionality
  • Estimate and schedule module level testing deliverables Identifying Business Scenarios related to testing
  • Create performance Test Data
  • Identify best practices and provide performance guidelines to development team
  • Gain an understanding of product capabilities.

Qualifications

 

TECHNOLOGY: (Explain the Technology involved in this work)

SAS, SilkPerformer, SilkTest, Performance Centre (Load Runner), Java

 

MANDATORY TECHNICAL SKILL-SETS: (Describe the skill-sets required for this work)

  • Proven ability to manage technical responsibilities as well as people
  • Define, execute, and analyze high-level performance testing strategies and solutions through business, functional and technical expertise
  • Understand the design and implement performance testing tools and scripts
  • Identify and implement configuration changes
  • Define characteristics, capabilities, inputs, outputs, and results necessary to describe the required functionality of the selected technologies
  • Assist in identifying, analyzing, mitigating and responding to project and operational risks
  • Assist in utilizing efficient and effective processes and standards in order to continuously improve quality
  • Must have worked and have expert knowledge on Performance Testing
  • Must have hands on experience and knowledge of one or more tools such as SilkPerformer, Loadrunner etc
  • Must have sound programming knowledge of one or more scripting languages used in Performance Testing and associated tools such as C, 4Test,Java.
  • Understanding of BI concepts and databases
  • Must have expert knowledge of hardware, software, architecture and enterprise class systems.
  • Good understanding of hardware from a performance aspect (diagnosing and tuning for performance)
  • Good understanding of how applications sit on top of the hardware environment.
  • Strong problem solving, organizational, decision-making, written, oral and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to relate technical concepts of a multi-tier architecture.
  • Ability to work independently

 

TOTAL YEARS OF RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Minimum: 8-10 years (4-5 years in performance testing). Currently working in Performance Testing area.

 

 

Job

 Software R&D

Primary Location

India Research & Development-Pune

Organization

 SAS Asia Pacific

 

 

 

Java Designer-09001237

Description

 

Role: 

 

The jobs consists of following activities:

  • Perform Requirement Analysis and write Functional Specifications
  • Perform High level and Low level design for applications based on top of SAS Business Intelligence Architecture
  • Coding in Java technologies recommended by SAS application development framework as well as APIs withing SAS BI Platform
  • Provide documentation and technical publications for external and internal customers

Qualifications

 

 

Requirements:

 

  • Experience with OOAD and design patterns in product development
  • Excellent programming skills with Core Java, JSP, Servlet, MVC, Struts
  • Experience in GUI development - Flex 3 with extensive Actionscript experience
  • Familiarity with XML, RMI, SQL, Databases, JDBC, Jakarta Ant
  • Hands on knowledge of using various application server viz. Tomcat, Apache, Web Logic, Web Sphere, JBoss

   

Preferences: 

  • Knowledge of Flex based development is preferred
  • Knowledge of software development processes and Quality Standards
  • Good verbal and written communication skills 

Education and Experience:  

  • Bachelors degree preferably in Computer Science/MCA/CDAC or equivalent with 5 to 7 years relevant experience 
  • Experience in Banking  domain preferred but not mandatory

Job

 Design

Primary Location

India Research & Development-Pune

Organization

 SAS Asia Pacific

 

 

  Interested Candidate can send the resume at:

manas_bansal@ rediffmail. com



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