Software Engineer
Competency-based
ONET: 15-1132.00
1
Years
135
Skills
218h
Related instructions
Classroom instruction topics
- Professional Foundation Training
- Principles and Practices
- Software Engineering Fundamentals
- DevOps
- Platforms, Services, and Solutions
- Codecademy: Introduction to IT
On-the-job training
- Understand, articulate, and demonstrate agile principles and practice
- Demonstrate knowledge of agile principles and how IBM implements them in a development environment
- Lead and participate in agile planning activities, including story points, planning poker, Kanban boards, prioritizing work, and writing stories
- Model “small batch” practices by successfully breaking down work tasks into smaller components
- Lead and participate in retrospectives to drive continuous improvement
- Understand and demonstrate social coding behaviors
- Demonstrate knowledge of social coding behaviors
- Execute successful “Fork and Pull” model in GitHub
- Demonstrate effective searching via GitHub / GHE to identify code
- Leverage established channels, i.e. slack, to collaborateand identify code
- Understand the use of Open Source and the implications
- Demonstrate successful usage of Open Sources scanning tools
- Understand the appropriate protection and usage of Intellectual Property
- Demonstrate key teamwork and collaborative behaviors
- Articulate the value behind the pair programming model
- Demonstrate successful use of pair programming
- Articulate the value of playbacks and reviews
- Demonstrate successful use of playbacks and reviews
- Demonstrate strong communication skills
- Demonstrate strong communication skills through the selection of the appropriate communication method for each message
- Demonstrate strong presentation skills through quality materials and clear presentation
- Demonstrate appropriate use of email for general communications
- Demonstrate appropriate use of Slack for general communications
- Demonstrate appropriate use of Slack as a collaboration tool
- Understand, articulate, demonstrate IBM Design Thinking
- Demonstrate knowledge of IBM Design Thinking and how IBM implements it in a development environment
- Create empathy maps for identified personas
- Execute discovery phase to identify customer requirements
- Develop hills that communicate project intent with clarity and flexibility
- Conduct successful playbacks with stakeholders to exchange feedback and measure progress
- Identify and leverage sponsor users to provide real-world perspective
- Demonstrate behaviors and work plans aligned with fail fast / MVP principles
- Understand and model good feedback behaviors
- Understand the importance of feedback in all we do
- Successfully leverage Net Promoter Score methodology
- Deliver quality feedback to team members
- Receive feedback gracefully and act on it
- Model goal setting behaviors through performance management system
- Model a culture of feedback with all team members
- Demonstrate ability to analyze data sets, identify insights, and leverage to drive decision making
- Understand the value of real-time data gathering to reduce risk and increase success
- Articulate the different types of analytics: predictive, prescriptive, descriptive, cognitive, machine learning
- Demonstrate use of data analytics to make decisions
- Successfully analyze large data sets and leverage data to drive insights
- Demonstrate knowledge of key computer programming fundamentals
- Demonstrate an understanding of the history of computing
- Demonstrate an understanding of the history and principles of software engineering
- Demonstrate an understanding of the history and principles of data management
- Demonstrate an understanding of the history and principles of networking fundamentals
- Demonstrate an understanding of the history and principles of infrastructure
- Demonstrate an understanding of the history and principles of integrated development environments
- Understand and demonstrate key software design fundamentals
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of key software design fundamentals
- Demonstrate successful problem solving behaviors: Demonstrate ability to decompose a problem
- Demonstrate successful problem solving behaviors: Demonstrate ability to use abstract data types
- Demonstrate successful problem solving behaviors: Demonstrate ability to apply algorithms as a solution
- Demonstrate successful problem solving behaviors: Demonstrate ability to follow logical conclusions
- Demonstrate the use of an object-oriented language or modelling language to design a model that promotes clean code: Successfully decompose into discrete components in a coherent design that will enable the software to grow and be maintained efficiently
- Demonstrate the use of functional programming skills
- Demonstrate ability to recognize and apply design patterns to address a problem
- Demonstrate proficiency in languages like Java, Python, NodeJS, or JavaScript
- Understand and demonstrate test-driven development
- Articulate the differences and relative strengths / weakness of the various models of test-driven or behavior driven development
- Demonstrate use of various models of test-driven or behavior driven development
- Understand and navigate the complexity associated with enterprise-level development
- Articulate the complexities and challenges associated with enterprise-scale development
- Understand how to apply security at enterprise
- Understand how to scale solutions
- Understand how to manage performance at enterprise
- Understand how to address legacy integrations
- Understand, articulate, and demonstrate clean coding behaviors
- Demonstrate use of refactoring to yield clean code
- Demonstrate ability to write code with clarity
- Demonstrate ability to write code that minimizes duplication
- Demonstrate ability to write code with simplicity
- Explain the various clean coding principles represented by the acronym SOLID
- Demonstrate use of SOLID principles in code
- Understand and manage technical deb
- Understand the issues caused by technical debt
- Demonstrate ability to identify technical debt
- Demonstrate ability to eliminate technical debt
- Understand ability to use code scanning and static analysis tools
- Understand and demonstratenknowledge of web programming skills
- Understand and articulate the value of distributed, modern computing architecture and the role it plays in modern service development
- Demonstrate proficient back-end or front end development skills
- Demonstrate basic knowledge of back-end and front end development
- Demonstrate understanding of how to scale applications using database
- Demonstrate understanding of how to build and deploy scalable applications in Bluemix
- Understand how to use version control for all elements of the software delivery lifecycle
- Understand the principles of version control
- Understand versioning, releases, issues, and merges in source code
- Demonstrate proper usage of versioning, releases, issues, and merges in source code
- Understand the use of dependencies and libraries from within and outside the team
- Demonstrate usage of dependencies and libraries from within and outside the team
- Understand and demonstrate how to build and test quality code, at scale
- Understand how to build quality code at scale
- Understand the techniques used for ensuring quality
- Understand the different types of testing, where to apply them, and the relative amounts
- Understand the successful use of test coverage tools
- Understand successful use of performance testing
- Understand successful use of boundary and limit testing
- Understand successful use of chaotic testing
- Understand and demonstrate continuous integration
- Articulate the value of continuous integration in a development environment
- Demonstrate CI principles through frequent commits to trunk of codebase
- Demonstrate CI principles through use of automated tests to ensure codebase is in a good state
- Demonstrate proficient use of continuous integration tools
- Demonstrate understanding of the impact of commit defects into shared codebase
- Understand and demonstrate continuous delivery
- Articulate the value of continuous delivery in a development environment
- Understand CD principles through short, frequent, automated delivery of code
- Demonstrate proficient use of continuous delivery tools
- Understand and demonstrate feature decoupling
- Articulate the value of feature decoupling in a development environment
- Demonstrate ability to proficiently use feature toggles
- Understand knowledge of microservice architecture
- Understand and demonstrate DevOps automation
- Articulate the value of automation to the development lifecycle
- Demonstrate knowledge of the tools required to execute automation in a DevOps development team
- Demonstrate use of automated run-books to minimize call-out for service failures
- Demonstrate proficient use of UCD
- Demonstrate proficient use of Ansible and scripted automation
- Demonstrate proficient use of Chef
- Understand and demonstrate DevOps metrics and measurements
- Understand the use and articulate the value of instrumentation and automated measurements to enable continuous improvement
- Understand the various methodologies used to measure and track progress
- Understand and demonstrate knowledge of cloud computing fundamentals, including the various tools, services, and principles
- Articulate the value of cloud infrastructures as it relates to efficiency, scalability, and resiliency of services
- Articulate the value and use of containers in cloud computing
- Demonstrate proficient use of containers like Docker and Vagrant
- Articulate the value of platforms like OpenStack and IaaS
- Demonstrate proficient use of cloud platforms
- Articulate the value of container management systems
- Demonstrate proficient use of service development practices, including adherence to 12-factor app rules
- Understand and demonstrate the design patterns and practices for building cloud native services
- Articulate the design patterns and practices for building highly scalable, resilient services and their lifecycles
- Understand proficient use of Kubernetes
- Understand proficient understanding of microservices architecture, including platforms like Liber8 and ISTIO
- Understand proficient understanding of circuit-breaker patterns like Hystrix and ISTIO
- Understand the relationship between scaling techniques, how to exploit them, and where
- Articulate the relationship between scaling techniques, how to exploit them, and where
- Articulate the value of scale-out vs. scale-up
- Demonstrate use of scale-out vs. scale-up
- Understand the value of fail fast / recovery
- Understand the use of fail fast / recovery
- Understand the various platforms, their differences, relative strengths / weaknesses, and integrations
- Outline the various platforms, their differences, relative strengths / weaknesses, and integrations
- Demonstrate basic knowledge of Linux
- Demonstrate basic knowledge of Mobile
- Demonstrate basic knowledge of IoT
- Understand the topologies of enterprise solutions, and how clients use our portfolio of products and services together
- Articulate the topologies of enterprise solutions, and how clients use our portfolio of products and services together
- Articulate the common use cases for APIs
- Successfully design, publish, and management APIs
- Understand demonstrate the use of logging and monitoring tools and infrastructure
- Articulate the value of logging and monitoring in an operational environment
- Demonstrate proficient use of logging and monitoring tools and infrastructure
- Demonstrate ability to implement and/or comply with logging policies
- Demonstrate ability to use dashboards for monitoring
- Understand the need for mobility and migration of data from on-premise to cloud solutions, and the implications
- Articulate the value in migrating data from on-premise to cloud
- Articulate the challenges in migrating data from on- premise to cloud
- Outline the process required to migrate data
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