Senior Software Engineer, HR Systems

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Position: Senior Software Engineer, HR Systems

Job Location: 608 SW 8th St., Bentonville, AR 72712

Duties: Leads and participates in medium to large-scale projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirements, wire frames); writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with project team and cross functional teams; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs; interacting with project manager to provide input on project plan; and providing leadership to the project team. Coordinates, completes, and oversees DCR- Design Change Request related activities and assignments by developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders; supporting plans and initiatives to meet customer and business needs; identifying and communicating goals and objectives. Leads everyday scrum meetings, Sprint planning and project discussions to meet the by weekly and monthly releases. Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CICD) to ensure adherence to the project against approved milestones and timelines. Maintaining and keeping the Jira dashboard updated at all times to reflect the correct number of in-progress issues. Support Defect Management and Troubleshooting. Analyze defects from past projects/solutions to avoid recurrence of similar defects. Troubleshoot performance and availability bottlenecks for the application.  Work with Onshore and offshore resources and coordinate work. Coordinates resources, provides oversight and direction to team members. Executes regression testing to test the code and configuration using appropriate testing tools based on the testing needs which includes test case preparation and execution of test cases to test the code and detect errors and defects for the entire component. Classify the requirements into applicable types (For example- Functional/Non-Functional. Anticipate the solution risks/issues during requirements gathering phase, inform relevant stakeholders and recommend corrective steps. Contribute to the creation of user stories for component/application/complex (For agile methodology). Troubleshoots business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, possible root cause); engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues; formulating an action plan; performing actions as designated in the plan; interpreting the results to determine further action; performs root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues; and completing online documentation. Effectively communicates risks and system issues to the Project Manager and project team ahead in time to avoid any program risks/ escalations. Assists in adherence to project deadlines and schedules and participates in requirement analysis and source to data mapping if required.

Minimum education and experience required: 4 years of experience in software engineering or related experience; OR Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field plus 2 years of experience in software engineering or a related field.

Skills required: Must have experience with: implementing and designing of SAP Human Capital Management (PA, OM and US Payroll); implementing and designing of SAP (Employee Central and Employee Central Payroll); configuring personnel calculation rules in SAP HCM, creating custom function, and writing functional specs; data migration in SAP applications; Advance Reporting tools and SFTP; Service Now and JIRA tools; code changes in XML (Extensible Markup Language); LSMW, BDC and G2SSL, and User Acceptance testing post product release; project conceptualization, detailed project documents, and defining project management concept in an Agile way; point-to-point integration, developing screens based on Fiori launchpad and payroll control center implementation; prioritizing product backlog and managing roll out of product; designing and configuring authorizations, roles and profiles for payroll managers and administrators; and scheduling batch jobs to run PCC daemon jobs. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

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Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.