Visual Basic .Net Developer at Kerridge Commercial Systems South Africa

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Deal with multiple concurrent projects, prioritising and resolving conflicting demands as required.
• Define development objectives and initiate action toward meeting them.
• Ensure that all work is implemented to specification, on schedule, with good quality and within the effort estimated.
• Monitor on-going progress and report on exceptions to project and team management
• Ensure KCS programming standards, best practice and industry guidelines are adhered to
• This role will involve development of Retail applications, and delivering fixes for customers
• Carry out programming tasks from specifications against specific project timescales
• Conduct unit testing on own code with documented summary test plans, and fixing errors
• Submit code for peer review and make modifications in line with feedback received
• Participate in peer review of code and specification, making suggestions to increase quality
• Schedule own time to deliver against assigned priorities in line with agreed project timescales
• Provide clear updates on progress against assigned tasks
• Escalate problems and exceptions that need to be addressed in a timely manner, with suggested solutions and workarounds

Skills, Knowledge and Experience (Qualification, technical skills, commercial work experience, soft skills such as communication, presentation, personal attributes )

• Extensive programming experience
• Knowledge of Retail and ERP systems
• Requires a high level of understanding SQL database design and maintenance
• High level of VB.Net and C# programming skills
• Retail development skills will be beneficial
• Good communication and interpersonal skills and customer inter-facing onsite
• Project Management skills and experience of having delivered software projects to specification, within budget, on time and of good quality
• Knowledge of industry standard methodologies, tools and processes for software development
• Knowledge of software project lifecycles (PDLC)
• Knowledge of development tools and modern database technologies
• Exposure to financial management tools and reporting
• Experience using MS Office products, with good spreadsheet skills
• Experience with database reporting tools and report design within Crystal Reports
• Good general management skills in a fast paced technical operation
• Empathy with software QA and QC processes and exposure to TDD
• Confidence in presenting information both internally and to customer representatives

Equal Opportunities

• KCS Group is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity.

Development Team

• Must work from the office within a multi-layered team including team members from our UK,USA and Holland office.
• Have full access to development server and work with other team members on code merge
• Assist QA staff members on testing and documentation
• Assist with software releases
• Assist support members with customer queries and will be required at times to visit customer sites to apply a software release

Health and Safety

The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 puts a legal obligation on KCS as an employer to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare of its employees at work. Employees also have a duty to take reasonable care for their own health and safety and of others who could be affected by their actions. Understanding the safety policies and co-operating with the arrangements that are in place is therefore an essential part of your employment.