Role at a glance
- Job function
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Software Engineering & IT Software Engineering
- Salary
- Not Disclosed
- Location
- Chennai
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience
- Minimum 3 year(s) of experience is required
- Education
- 15 years full time education
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Role Summary
The Custom Software Engineer develops and enhances custom software solutions for specific business needs, with a focus on UKG Pro and Kronos/Pro WFM environments. The role supports project delivery through system configuration, testing, customer handover, and collaboration with project teams and client stakeholders.
What You'll Do
- Collaborate with project teams and client stakeholders to support project delivery.
- Perform maintenance and configuration activities for Kronos modules such as accruals and timekeeper.
- Support functional, integration, and user acceptance testing activities.
- Assist customers with testing, solution understanding, and handover of the system.
- Perform test automation and/or manual testing for the UKG platform.
- Mentor junior members.
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View full postingQualifications
Must have UKG Pro experience; minimum 3 years of experience; 15 years full-time education. Technical experience includes Pro WFM testing, Workforce Central/Pro WFM Advance Scheduler testing, and Kronos modules such as Timekeeping, Accruals, and Basic Scheduler.
Required
- UKG Pro
- Minimum 3 year(s) of experience
- 15 years full time education
- 4+ years of IT experience and primarily in Pro WFM domain test automation
- Minimum 2+ years of experience in Workforce Central/Pro WFM Advance Scheduler testing
- Functional expertise on Kronos Basic Modules like Timekeeping, Accruals, Basic Scheduler
- Knowledge on how POS data is loaded in application, volume & labor forecast
- Knowledge on Business Structures in Pro WFM
Preferred
- Prior experience in supporting functional testing, integration testing and UAT
- Good to have knowledge on various scheduling engines and its functionality
- Knowledge in Forecasting
- Fair knowledge on Widgets/Workspaces creation respective to Scheduling
- Experience working on various verticals (Retail, Healthcare etc.)
- Test automation tools experience using Typescript, Java, JavaScript, C#, Python, Cucumber, Mocha, Selenium, Appium and Cypress
- UI Path automation testing skill
- Exposure towards STLC (Agile & Waterfall models)
Original job description
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Original job description
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Project Role Description : Develop custom software solutions to design, code, and enhance components across systems or applications. Use modern frameworks and agile practices to deliver scalable, high-performing solutions tailored to specific business needs.
Must have skills : UKG Pro
Good to have skills : NA
Minimum 3 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education
Summary:
As a Custom Software Engineer, you will engage in the development of custom software solutions that are designed to meet specific business needs. Your typical day will involve collaborating with team members to design, code, and enhance various components across systems or applications. You will utilize modern frameworks and agile practices to ensure that the solutions you deliver are scalable and high-performing, contributing to the overall success of the projects you are involved in.
Roles and responsibilities:
Collaborate with project teams and client stakeholders to support project delivery.
Perform maintenance and configuration activities for Kronos modules such as accruals and timekeeper.
Prior experience in supporting functional testing, integration testing and UAT preferred.
Assisting customer with testing, understanding the solution & hand holding during handover of the system.
Experience in Test automation and/or manual testing wrt UKG platform.
Mentor junior members.
Thrive in a team environment, while also possessing the ability to work independently.
Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
Solid interpersonal skills to interface with co-workers and customers and manage specific tasks to completion
with minimal direction.
Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment.
Desire to work in an information systems environment.
Technical and Professional Experience:
4+ years of IT experience and primarily in Pro WFM domain test automation.
Minimum 2+ years of experience in Workforce Central/Pro WFM Advance Scheduler testing.
Must have functional expertise on Kronos Basic Modules like Timekeeping, Accruals, Basic Scheduler.
Must have knowledge on how POS data is loaded in application, volume & labor forecast.
Must have knowledge on Business Structures in Pro WFM.
Good to have knowledge on various scheduling engines and its functionality.
Knowledge in Forecasting is an added-on advantage.
Should have fair knowledge on Widgets/Workspaces creation respective to Scheduling.
Experienced working on various verticals (Retail, Healthcare etc.).
Should be a team player with good interpersonal skills and a drive to take ownership of and responsibility for
the tasks assigned to you.
Good to have test automation tools experience using Typescript, Java, JavaScript, C#, Python, Cucumber,
Mocha, Selenium, Appium and Cypress.
Good to have UI Path automation testing skill.
Expert in API testing (JMeter, Postman, SoapUI).
Applied knowledge in databases (ORACLE, SQL Server, Postgres etc.).
Exposure towards STLC (Agile & Waterfall models).
Additional Information:
Ready to work in shifts.15 years full time education
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