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Solutions Engineering is currently seeking candidates for the positions listed below. If you are seeking employment, please email careers@soleng.com with your cover letter and resume as attachments. Please no faxes and no hardcopy.

We have immediate needs in our Bethesda office for :
Software Designers, Applications Specialists

If you have been engaged in the work identified with one or more of the positions described below and know that you love doing that form of work, that you are constantly looking for ways to improve the quality and effectiveness of your work, that happy (or thrilled) Clients fuel your happiness, you are energized by the prospect of affecting the quality of life for hundreds, thousands, or millions of people, and that learning is a life-long pleasure, then I would strongly encourage you to send us your resume.

Applications Specialist/Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Grades 1 - 5

Interests & Enjoyment :
Thorough use of application software - pushing a package to the limit, finding the extent of its capabilities, seeing how to do lots of things through unconventional perspective on how features might be used. Having a sense for quality in products - knowing beauty when you see it, enjoy applying that extra effort required to attain beauty, separating work-flow and engineering beauty from cosmetic or surficial attractiveness, knowledge of good and useful documentation. Pride in product as a necessary reward. Enjoy building things. Enjoy making things right. Enjoy being part of a team focused on building high quality products, on-time, and within budget. Enjoy working with people and customers. Enjoy problem solving. A need to learn new tools and expand capabilities.
Capabilities : General : Work, create, and problem solve independently and cooperatively. Very good to excellent communications skills (written and verbal). Ability to focus in a fast paced, demanding, and stimulating industry. Software Testing : Extensive experience with software, not necessarily many products, but some products in depth. These products must be Windows based, preferably Win95/98 or NT 4.0 Workstation products, however X-Windows and Motif windows based products experience would be comparable. Knowledge and experience in building program test and evaluation script for comprehensive software testing. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, especially written. Extensive experience with user-interface evaluation and improvement, feature refinement, bug fix, as well as user and systems documentation. Knowledge as to software exception priorities, how to express software execution exceptions in concise, efficient, terms consistent with the manner in which these exceptions are remedied by programmers. Software Documentation : Experience in writing User Guide Manuals, User Reference Manuals, on-line Context Sensitive Help. Experience in validating and testing Help text. System Configuration Testing : Experience in testing and verifying environment configurations required of application software to run properly, efficiently, and consistently. Experience in Database configuration and tuning issues. Customer Support & Training : Experience in user training and support. Ability to effectively communicate with users, how to sooth and support users in a friendly and comfortable fashion, yet focused on problem resolution. Experience in systems support and recovery utilities (Tape Backup operations, Disk/Database defragmentation, Keyfile rebuilds, Consistency validations and reconstruction).
Responsibilities : Primary : Test and Validate special application database software. Provide concrete and specific problem definition documentation to programmers for problem resolution. Write test scripts to ensure comprehensive and uniform testing. Author on-line, context sensitive and context free user help documentation. Provide review input to the software Design Definition. Secondary : Provide training and support for users. Collect feature enhancement information from the user community. Provide input, information, written text, graphics, and files for use from our web site.
Education : BS or MS in any field which resulted in a love for learning, a strong command of the English language and the written word, and a strong sense of teammanship and the power of cooperative efforts.
Experience : 3+ years in formal software quality review and testing/documentation, or four or more years as a power user and technical writer, or four or more years of help desk support with technical writing and independent problem solving experience.


Database Design Engineer
Capabilities : Excellent communication skills; Comprehensive compilation of client requirements and workflow, and definition in database schema to provide process engineering, automation, and database to meet client needs. Define optimal workflow and user interface properties to achieve optimal attainment of client goals. Must be able to fit data model and implementation architecture to client needs. In depth knowledge of implementation details affecting performance, portability, cost, expandability, reliability, security, disaster recovery, user interface, user friendliness, learning curve properties, requirements for training and support, interface to other electro-mechanical devices. Bring all of this knowledge and experience in focus to meet client needs.
Education : BS, MS or PhD in CS, EE, or related field.
Experience : 5+ years applications/database systems design, implementation, and support.
Experience with ER/Studio or ER/Win; Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, or DB2 (UDB) a must. Experience in roundtrip engineering database logical models with UML data diagrams a plus.

Database Development Engineer
Capabilities : Good communication skills; Develop database operations software from schema and module functional definition in network or relational model. Indepth knowledge of implementation details affecting performance, portability, expandability, reliability, security, disaster recovery, user interface, user friendliness, learning curve properties, requirements for training and support, interface to other electro-mechanical devices. Bring all of this knowledge and experience in focus to meet client needs.
Education : BS or MS in CS, EE or related field.
Experience : 5+ years applications/database systems design, implementation, and support in MS SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, DB2 (UDB). UML and Ab Initio experience a plus.

Software Designer
Capabilities : Work, create, and problem solve independently and cooperatively. Very good to excellent communications skills (written and verbal). Ability to focus in a fast paced, demanding, and stimulating industry, ability to execute according to plan. Excellent ability to communicate with Client stakeholders and team members. Extensive experience with software, not necessarily many products, but some products in depth. These products must be Windows based, preferably Win95/98/NT/2000/Xp Workstation products, however X-Windows and Motif windows based products experience would be comparable. Knowledge and experience in UML and the Unified Software Development methodology required. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, especially written. Knowledge as to software exception priorities, how to express software execution exceptions in concise, efficient, terms consistent with the manner in which these exceptions are remedied by programmers.
Primary Responsibilities : Primary : Compose Use Cases in Embarcadero/Describe to resolve all Requirements, organize the Use Cases into Packages for optimal OOD configuration. Articulate Use Case Scenarios to resolve all workflow, data flow and business process requirements. Construct support diagrams (Activity, Statechart, Sequence, and Collaboration diagrams) as needed to articulate the Design to a buildable level of detail. Interface with Client stakeholders and SMEs to resolve questions regarding the design details. Augment Requirements with information obtained from the Client. Complete tasks on time and within budget. Accouting systems experience a plus.

Education : BS or MS in any field which resulted in a love for learning, a strong command of the English language and the written word, and a strong sense of teamanship and the power of cooperative efforts.
Experience : 5+ years of experience in Software Design, Requirements Capture, Requirements Specification, Auditing Design against Requirements. Experience with Describe (big plus), Rational Rose, or other visual modeling UML tool required. Extensive experience with user-interface standards required. 508 Requirements experience a plus. Accouting systems experience a plus.

Software Design Engineer, Grades 1 - 5
Capabilities : Extensive experience and knowledge in commercial applications software development, delivery, and support - Full Life Cycle development experience. Excellent communications skills. Demonstrated expertise and competence in : Unified Software Development methodology, Rapid Application Development Principles, and Six Sigma defect management, C/C++, object oriented methods, patterns & class re-use, user workflow models, GUI, performance, database models (relational and network), multi-user issues (resource allocations, process queuing, deadlock, performance, reliability), Software Engineering, long term supportability, defensive programming techniques, RAD and library use, modularity and encapsulation, systems documentation, versioning and milestone management, device communications and interaction, optimization techniques, error handling, data corruption detection and avoidance, data verification and enforcement techniques, software flexibility and breakability issues, software re-engineering and re-use.
Education : BS or MS in CS, EE or related field.
Experience : 5+ years in commercial software development, implementation, and support. Experience in UML Visual Modeling a must. Experience with Describe (GDPro) or Rational Rose and one or more of the following : MS SQL, Oracle, Sybase, UDB (DB2) required.

Programmer, Grades 1 - 5
Capabilities : Extensive experience and knowledge in programming to a specification document. Good communications skills. Demonstrated competence in : C/C++, C#, Java, or Visual Basic, object oriented methods, user-interface/GUI, solid software engineering principles, database (either relational or network), supportable style, high modularity, defensive programming techniques, RAD or EDI, library use (at least 2).
Education : BS or MS in CS, EE or related field.
Experience : 3+ years in commercial software development, implementation, and support.

Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Grades 1 - 5
Capabilities : Extensive experience and knowledge in building program test and evaluation script for comprehensive software testing. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Extensive experience with user-interface evaluation and improvement, feature refinement, bug fix, and user and systems documentation.
Education : BS, in related field.
Experience : 2+ years in software quality testing and documentation.

 

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